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Developer Newsletter - September 2023

Romana Vasyleha
Romana Vasyleha

🏆 Pangea Awarded as Top 16 Cybersecurity Company

We are thrilled to share that we were selected as a 2023 SINET16 Innovator which recognized the most innovative cybersecurity companies from a group of 195 applicants from 13 countries! Thanks to SINET for this recognition.

It’s an honor to be included in this esteemed class of emerging cybersecurity companies from around the world. 🙌

You can see the full list here


Product Updates

📁File Scan Beta Crowdstrike

We recently announced a new Beta service where you can scan uploads, attachments and other file objects for malware with a simple API and a few lines of code. We partnered with Crowdstrike, the top malware scanning provider, to secure code with next-level intelligence data. Try it out!

📃Change Log

To keep up with all of the changes and updates on the platform, visit our change log.


Pango Picks

🤖❌Block botnets with just a few lines of code

In the world of bots scraping the web, we must learn how to outsmart botnets to prevent them from sabotaging our application. Luckily, with Pangea’s IP Intel API, you can prevent most botnets from performing critical user actions in your applications.

📚Discover "Secure-by-Design" with Pangea's New Education Hub

With the "secure-by-design" approach gaining traction, Pangea proudly presents the Secure by Design Education Hub, inspired by the CISA's Secure by Design initiative. Dive deep into essential topics and stay updated with the latest in cybersecurity


📅 Upcoming Events

Oliver at TechCrunch

9/19 – Pangea's CEO Oliver Friedrichs, along with several other security leaders, presented at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 in SF to teach about why Secure by Design is so important. Attendees learned about strategies and best practices that will enable them to bake in security from their first lines of code and quickly achieve widely-recognized security certifications such as SOC2 and ISO 27001.

Sourabh CSO50 Award

10/2 – Pangea’s CTO/Co-Founder, Sourabh Satish, will be presenting at the CSO50 Awards ceremony and will show you how Pangea’s Security Platform as a Service makes it easy for developers to secure their apps with ease.

Rob at Oktane

10/3 – In this talk, our Chief Product Officer, Rob Truesdell, will show you how Pangea takes an API-driven unified approach to app security, offering developers a "Security Platform as a Service" that seamlessly adds Auth0 by Okta for authorization.

GitHub Universe

11/8 – On November 8th and 9th, Pangea will be sponsoring a demo pod at GitHub Universe. If you are attending, stop by our station to watch us demo our “Pangea GitHub Actions”. Stay tuned for more details!

See all news & events.


Community Updates

👤Monthly Community Member Spotlight: Peter Ma

Peter Ma is Co-Founder at SiteMana, an AI company that predicts anonymous visitor purchasing intent. He’s also part of Intel Software Innovator, arm ambassador and Techstars Alumni.

Friday Community Cafe

Last month we kicked off our Friday Community Cafe, giving anyone the opportunity to tune in and learn more about Pangea community members. We will be hosting casual virtual meet-ups to provide community members the space to speak about their projects, ask questions, or provide feedback on services. If you are interested in attending future office hours, fill out this form to get the Zoom link. We are excited to get to know all of you!

If you missed our previous Community Cafes and would like to watch the recordings, check out our YouTube playlist we update after every meeting.
We will announce the topic under Pangea’s LinkedIn events a few days before the event, so make sure to follow us there!


More from Pangea

In August, Grace Fransico had the opportunity to give a guest lecture at UC Berkeley! Grace had a great time talking about product-led growth, getting to the top as a woman, and advocating for security as a priority in all software development work. Huge thank you to the BMoE program for organizing this experience and to all the students and entrepreneurs who attended.

In August, Oliver Friedrichs delivered a keynote presentation with the Founders Network. A big thank you to the Founders Network for hosting the event and to those who tuned in and showed support.


We're Hiring

We’re growing. Here are some roles we are hiring for!

Developer Advocate

Platform Engineer - SDK's

Principal Software Engineer - (AuthZ and AuthN)

UI Engineer

For more openings, view our careers page!


That's all for this month.

Till next time,

The Pangea Team

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Pangea is a Sample Vendor for Composable Security APIs in the 2024 App Sec Hype Cycle report