Los Altos, CA — February 1, 2023 — Distinction Safety (Distinction), the code safety platform constructed for builders and trusted by safety,immediately introduced the launch of its new associate program, theSafety Innovation Alliance (SIA), which is a world ecosystem of system integrators (SIs), cloud, channel and expertise alliances.
The aim of SIA is to supply prospects with unmatched, absolutely built-in utility safety options from Distinction and its strategic alliance companions, which embody main multinationals like GitLab Inc., Amazon/Amazon Net Companies (AWS), Microsoft, VMware, PagerDuty, Armor Code, Zimperium, Anchore, Neosec, Wallarm, Ermetic, Cloudwize, Noname Safety, BLST Safety, ProtectOnce, Scribe Safety, Wiz, Wib and Legit Safety. Moreover, the crew will deal with constructing expanded partnerships with SIs, expertise suppliers and unbiased software program distributors (ISVs).
“We acknowledge that organizations can’t depend on a single safety resolution to totally defend prospects from rising cyber threats. That’s the reason it’s important to have sturdy, technical integrations between the instruments that builders, operations and safety groups use,” mentioned Ben Goodman, Senior Vice President of Company Growth and Strategic Alliances at Distinction Safety. “Distinction has made important investments in constructing an ecosystem, an engineering crew, interfaces and tooling with a view to launch SIA. I consider that technical partnerships begin with technical integrations, and this new associate program will revolutionize the best way prospects scale their safety options.”
SIA and the sturdy strategic associate integrations pushed by Distinction won’t solely permit companions to simply combine with the Distinction Safe Code Platform, however allow prospects to realize the next advantages:
- Confidently use Distinction choices as half of a bigger utility safety (AppSec) program.
- Enhanced safety predictability and diminished danger of implementing new code and AppSec applied sciences.
- Strengthened belief and confidence within the applied sciences which have already been deployed.
“When safety options simply complement your DevSecOps toolchain, software program engineers can ship manufacturing grade software program quicker and extra reliably,” mentioned Nima Badiey, World VP of Alliances at GitLab Inc. “As a launching member of Distinction’s new SIA ecosystem, we’re serving to prospects uncover and undertake extra sturdy safety practices. This allows corporations to repeatedly make investments and innovate in fashionable and safe software program provide chains.”
SIA is designed to enhance its companions’ enterprise capabilities to satisfy the wants of shoppers in AppSec. Distinction works with every associate to supply a customized expertise that most closely fits their pursuits and enterprise wants together with a easy onboarding course of, integration help, joint advertising and marketing campaigns and entry to the corporate’s spectacular set up base.
“IDC has lengthy acknowledged the significance of a sturdy ecosystem in AppSec. Clients can profit when strategic companions work collectively for extra holistic and built-in options for safety. The Safety Innovation Alliance enhances Distinction’s portfolio by increasing its capabilities for patrons and companions,” mentioned Jim Mercer, Analysis Vice President DevOps and DevSecOps at IDC.
SIA is led by Goodman, a profitable Alliance skilled, and different trade leaders, together with Tracey Mead, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, System Integrators; Rachael Mott, Senior Director, Strategic Alliances, Expertise Companions; Frank Gasparovic, Director, Ecosystem Engineering; Callie McCormick, World Director of Channel Gross sales; and Ram Yonish, VP of EMEA Alliances.
To hitch the rising ecosystem of companions or to seek out out extra about SIA, please go to our web site, learn our weblog and take heed to Goodman’s interview on Distinction’s Code Patrol podcast.
About Distinction Safety (Distinction):
A world main code safety platform firm purposely constructed for builders to get safe code transferring swiftly and trusted by safety groups to guard enterprise functions. Builders, safety and operations groups rapidly safe code throughout the whole software program improvement life cycle (SDLC) with Distinction to guard towards immediately’s focused utility safety (AppSec) assaults. Distinction additionally makes safety testing obtainable to all builders totally free with CodeSec.
Based in 2014 by cybersecurity trade veterans, Distinction was established to interchange legacy AppSec options that can’t defend fashionable enterprises. With immediately’s pressures to develop enterprise functions at more and more fast paces, the Distinction Safe Code Platform defends and protects towards full lessons of frequent vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). This enables safety groups to keep away from spending time on focusing false positives and remediate true vulnerabilities quicker. Distinction’s platform options for code evaluation, testing, safety, serverless, provide chain, APIs and languages assist enterprises obtain true DevSecOps transformation and compliance.
Distinction protects towards main cybersecurity assaults for its buyer base which represents a few of the largest brand-name corporations on this planet, together with BMW, AXA, Zurich, NTT, SOMPO Japan and American Purple Cross, in addition to quite a few different main international Fortune 500 enterprises. Distinction companions with international organizations corresponding to AWS, Microsoft, IBM Cloud, Guidepoint, Trace3, Deloitte and Carahsoft, to seamlessly combine and obtain the best degree of safety for patrons.
The rising demand for the world’s solely platform for code safety has landed the corporate on a few of the most prestigious lists together with the Inc. 5000 Listing of America’s Quickest Rising Corporations and has designated Distinction as one of many quickest rising corporations on the Deloitte Expertise Quick 500 Listing.
