Following SentinelOne’s acquisition of PingSafe earlier this year, Singularity Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) became available in North America in May. Now, SentinelOne has also released a version of Singularity Cloud Native Security in the European Union (EU). It is generally available starting today. With this, SentinelOne continues to steadily expand its offering.
Quite a lot has been happening around CNAPP and cloud security in general in recent years. Almost all serious security players have invested in developing or buying a platform that can protect cloud environments and the applications running there. So has SentinelOne. It bought PingSafe in January of this year, about which we wrote an extensive story at the time. Since that news, it has worked steadily to integrate PingSafe into its portfolio.
Steady is a word we actually think fits how SentinelOne approaches things. If we take a look at SentinelOne’s recent history, the company doesn’t really do any “crazy” things. It makes relatively few acquisitions, especially compared to some of the other players in the market, and it also doesn’t seem to care much about how fast it is growing. Mind you, SentinelOne has also been growing very fast over the last few years, but not fast enough to completely satisfy shareholders and financial analysts. That doesn’t seem to bother the company all that much. Or it does, but manages to hide it very well. In any event, SentinelOne does not seem to adjust its strategy significantly over the years.
We find SentinelOne’s approach to be quite refreshing, to be honest. Many security companies seem to be founded with only one goal: to maximize their value as quickly as possible for a lucrative IPO or acquisition by another party. Such a company should not wait too long to do this too, because the value can collapse again just like that. We have seen this with Lacework. We only have to look at Wiz to see this happening in practice right now. Until recently, that company was acquiring companies of its own with some regularity. Now it will probably soon be part of Alphabet (Google’s parent company). Whether that should make you happy as a Wiz customer, we strongly wonder or perhaps even question.
SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Native Security now also in the European Union
Anyway, let’s get back to today’s news. Fully in line with the steady approach we talked about above, SentinelOne is now bringing the CNAPP offering Singularity Cloud Native Security to the EU. So that’s two months after it became available in North America.
This “delay” has a good reason. A key component of Singularity Cloud Native Security is the Singularity Data Lake. This is where SentinelOne sends all the telemetry surrounding an organization’s cloud security. AI models developed and trained by the company itself analyze the data there and give organizations insights and actions to fend off possible threats and attacks. Obviously, the idea is that the combination of Singularity Cloud Native Security, the Data Lake and the AI models will protect organizations better than they have been until now.
SentinelOne cannot simply roll this out the same way everywhere. There are plenty of organizations that need to stay within a specific geographic region. Even when it comes to what cloud products and services they purchase. Hence, starting today, SentinelOne is also providing Singularity Cloud Native Security from its availability zone in Frankfurt. This allows organizations that need to stay within the EU to start using it. The data that organizations generate, move and analyze within SentinelOne’s offering never goes outside the EU, but stays in Frankfurt.
Whether this new availability zone for SentinelOne’s CNAPP fully meets the strictest sovereignty rules remains to be seen. If you really want to be able to claim full sovereignty, for example, only nationals from within the EU must also be employed at the data center. However, it makes the service interesting to many more organizations than if it were only available from data centers in North America. To be perfectly clear here, SentinelOne does not claim full cloud or data sovereignty here. It’s just that there are organizations that may demand that.
SentinelOne’s move today is a good thing for cloud security in general. The company claims to have the best technology available on the market. It did the same after acquiring PingSafe, now Singularity Cloud Native Security. That certainly approaches cloud security in a unique way. However, if organizations cannot deploy it because it is not available in parts of the world, it’s of little use to them how good the technology is. Starting today, that changes for organizations in the EU that like their data to stay there as well.
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