Lacework, a data-driven cloud security company, has opened a cloud data center in Sydney. Due to the facility’s physical proximity to customers, low latency, data sovereignty, and privacy, the company is better able to assist Australian and New Zealand organizations.
According to Richard Davies, Lacework Area Director, this investment reflects Lacework’s commitment to providing the best possible service for local customers in Australia and New Zealand, which remains a critical market for them.
“With so many organizations in ANZ rapidly moving workloads to the cloud, we’re helping to ensure they’re better prepared to protect themselves and their data,” said Davies.
IPSI, a secure payment provider, and Etika, a provider of financial services, were among the ANZ clients the company mentioned as having welcomed the new data center.
Jarrett Baker, IPSI Technical Operations Manager, said that IPSI operates in the compliance space, so data sovereignty is vital for them and their customers, who have requirements that include keeping data onshore.
“With that in mind we couldn’t even consider a security monitoring tool that didn’t meet those requirements,” said Kevin Tham, Etika CISO.
Tham added that the local data center will improve responsiveness of the site which will lead to overall productivity gains across their team.
The Sydney data center, according to Lacework, employs the same design as the company’s global infrastructure, so updates and new features will be made available on a global schedule.
In January, Wiz, an Israeli-United States cloud security startup vendor, also launched its first Australian data center in Sydney, using a highly scalable architecture and adhering to government security guidelines as well as industry standards.
