ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Kuma
Kuma is an open-source control plane for service mesh that is built on top of Envoy, which is an open-source service proxy. It features an out-of-the-box L4 and L7 policy architecture, allowing users to quickly set it up and enable zero trust security, observability, discovery, routing, and traffic reliability. Other features include multi-zone deployment for … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Palo Alto Networks’ new firewalls; Dynatrace’s updated security features; Tigera integrates zero trust into Calico Cloud
Security company Palo Alto Networks has announced new firewalls powered by machine learning technology. The new models, PA-3400 and PA-5400 Series provide three times improved security over previous models offered by the company, according to Palo Alto Networks. When compared to the previous models, the PA-5400 has seven times more content inspection per core, with … continue reading
Why hyperautomation should be at the top of your priority list for 2022
It’s safe to say that 2021 was an exhausting year for organizations and their employees. We’re coming up on two full years of the pandemic, which has highlighted the need for agile, cloud-based, and employee-centric business processes that enable organizations to rapidly respond to changing market conditions and customer demands. Enter hyperautomation, an augmented approach … continue reading
Fastly adds edge deployment option for its WAF offering
Edge network provider Fastly has announced the availability of an edge deployment option for its Next-Gen WAF solution, which is powered by Signal Sciences, the security company that Fastly acquired in October 2020. According to Fastly, this firewall provides protection for applications and APIs no matter where they are located. It can be deployed across … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: InterVision Ransomware Protection as a Service; Wipro and Intel collaboration, and new Aryaka leadership
InterVision has announced its new Ransomware Protection as a Service (RPaaS) solution, which includes access to a team of security experts, strategy for recovery after an attack, and a dedicated virtual CISO. “Ransomware continues to threaten the IT landscape, requiring companies to evolve from traditional, disconnected cybersecurity tools to a comprehensive managed platform,” says John … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Turris Omnia
Turris Omnia is an open source router that features a distributed firewall that adapts to the threats coming into a network to provide more robust security. This firewall works by sending a fingerprint of suspicious traffic that it detects to the Turris headquarters and then evaluating it against other data from other Turris routers. Then, … continue reading
Cisco announces new Wi-Fi 6E access points
Cisco revealed new innovations across its portfolio, including high-end Wi-Fi 6E access points, private 5G for the enterprise as a managed service, and new high-powered Catalyst 9000X series switches with Cisco Silicon One. The Wi-Fi 6E access points are from Catalyst and Meraki and offer gigabit performance. According to Cisco, this new offering is the … continue reading
Aqua Security adds new features for assessing security risk
Cloud-native security company Aqua Security is introducing new features that will help companies address their security risk to its Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). According to Aqua Security, users can choose whether to go with a quick assessment of workload risk, or they can actively protect those workloads from attacks in runtime. They can … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: JumpCloud Patch Management; SentinelOne and MimeCast integration; SoftIron and SUSE Rancher partnership
JumpCloud has added new patch management capabilities to its cloud directory platform to give organizations more insight into potential vulnerabilities in their systems and enable them to deploy automated patches. Users will be able to create schedules, report on system patches and versions, and see patch versions across their organization. “We all know that users … continue reading
StarlingX R6.0 released by Wind River
StarlingX, the platform that builds out infrastructure from the core to the edge by providing a scalable foundation with OpenStack, has reached its R6.0 release. The platform can be used to build out an organization’s central cloud and can be installed on the edge to manage a smaller pool of resources. In addition, the platform … continue reading
Tenable.cs updates allow for vulnerability prioritization
Security company Tenable has announced a number of new additions to Tenable.cs, which is the company’s cloud-native security solution. According to Tenable, the new updates are intended to allow companies to “secure cloud resources, container images and cloud assets to provide end-to-end security from code to cloud to workload.” Users can now use Tenable.cs to … continue reading
Red Hat introduces new data and storage capabilities to OpenShift Platform Plus
Red Hat has announced new additions to OpenShift Platform Plus that will incorporate data services like software-defined storage into the platform. OpenShift Platform Plus is a hybrid cloud platform that provides a multicloud Kubernetes stack out of the box. This is being made possible through an integration with OpenShift Data Foundation, which is a data … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Citrix acquired; AppOmni’s new features; Barracuda’s new integrations for MSPs
Desktop virtualization company Citrix has announced that it is being acquired by affiliates of Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation. Vista and Evergreen previously acquired TIBCO Software and they plan to merge the companies’ solutions together. This will add TIBCO’s analytics capabilities to Citrix’s digital workspace and application security suite, which will enable … continue reading
Report: Top 10 of most-used apps deal with app monitoring and incident response
This year saw substantial growth in apps that help organizations monitor their systems and respond quickly as the top 10 most popular developer tools used dealt with app monitoring and incident response. This stems from Okta’s new report “Businesses at Work” which gathered data from more than 14,000 global customers and the Okta Integration Network. … continue reading
