RSA Conference 2020: Product Announcement Summary (Day 1)


RSA Conference 2020 kicked off today in San Francisco, with nearly 700 exhibitors and more than 40,000 attendees expected to gather at the Moscone Center this week for the event.


As the industry’s largest conference, many security vendors leverage the event to launch new products and announce updates and enhancements to their offerings.


To help cut through the clutter, the SecurityWeek team will publish a daily digest summarizing some of the product and service announcements made throughout the week. 


Summary for RSA Conference Day 1: Monday, February 24


Cisco unveiled SecureX, a new cloud-native security platform designed to improve visibility, deliver analytics, and automate common security workflows. In addition to unifying existing security products, Cisco told SecurityWeek, the new platform adds an action orchestrator to “build automated playbooks to accelerate workflows such as threat investigation and remediation, as well as enable better collaboration amongst SecOps teams as well as IT and NetOps teams.”


Fortinet announced FortiAI, a new on-premises appliance that leverages self-learning Deep Neural Networks (DNN) to speed threat remediation and handle time consuming, manual security analyst tasks.


Checkmarx announced a new orchestration module (CxFlow) for its software security platform that integrates with application release orchestration and agile planning tools. CxFlow will help organizations improve the security of their software without interrupting developer workflows, the company says,  noting that enhancements to its platform will provide more seamless implementation and automation of application security testing (AST) in development and DevOps environments.


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