Technology vendor Cloudflare on Thursday announced the acquisition of seed-stage startup BastionZero as part of plans to expand the scope of its VPN replacement solutions.
BastionZero, based in Boston, Mass., raised $6 million in seed capital from prominent investors that include Dell Technologies Capital, Akamai and DG Lab Fund.
Founded in 2019, BastionZero's technology provides remote access to databases, servers, and other infrastructure used by backend and cloud engineering teams for the development and hosting of software services.
For Cloudflare, the acquisition fits into a plan to extend its Zero Trust Network Access flows with native access management for infrastructure like servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases.
Cloudflare believes the BastionZero technology will help security teams centralize the management of even more of their hybrid IT environment, while using standard Zero Trust practices to keep DevOps teams productive and secure.
BastionZero provides native integration to major infrastructure access protocols and targets like SSH, RDP, Kubernetes, database servers, and more to ensure that a target resource is configured to accept connections for that specific user, instead of relying on network level controls.
Cloudflare said the BastionZero team will work on integrating the startup's infrastructure access controls directly into its Cloudflare One product.
This Cyber News was published on www.securityweek.com. Publication date: Thu, 30 May 2024 17:43:05 +0000