DoControl announces no-code security workflows for SaaS applications
The automated SaaS security company DoControl announced no-code security workflows that brings Zero Trust into the SaaS data layer. DoControl’s security workflows allow for consistent, granular, and customizable data access controls, which helps to close the gaps found in inflexible hard-coded and out-of-the-box policies. “Security teams are becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of visibility … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Tracee
Tracee is an open-source runtime security and forensics tool that uses Linux eBPF for tracing applications at runtime. It analyzes the events it collects in order to discover suspicious patterns of behavior. It was developed at Aqua Security and released as an open-source project in 2019 in order to allow practitioners and researchers to benefit … continue reading
Rancher Desktop 1.0.0 is now generally available
Rancher Desktop 1.0.0, the open-source app for desktop Kubernetes and container management on Mac, Windows and Linux is now available from SUSE, which acquired Rancher in 2020. Rancher Desktop provides Kubernetes, using the k3s distribution at the version of a user’s choice, which enables users to set up a local Kubernetes environment using the same … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Voltage File Analysis Suite SmartScan; Replication in Amazon EFS; Portnox closes $22 million Series A
CyberRes by Micro Focus has announced a new feature in Voltage File Analysis Suite (FAS), which is a platform for searching for and protecting sensitive data. The new feature in FAS is SmartScan, which helps cut down on the time needed to find data. It also reduces data privacy compliance time. SmartScan also enables users … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: VMware NSX Upgrade Evaluation Tool; SafeBreach’s ransomware assessment challenge; Ivanti Neurons risk-based patch management
VMware has announced a new tool to make it easier for customers to upgrade to NSX-T Data Center 3.2.x. The NSX Upgrade Evaluation Tool checks the health and readiness of NSX managers before an upgrade. It works by making a copy of the databases from an existing NSX Manager and then validates the data against … continue reading
Low-hanging fruits to quickly reduce cloud costs in 2022
A new year is always a good time to check your expenses. One expense that keeps on climbing constantly in many organizations is related to the cloud expenses, expected to expand up to $1 trillion by 2024, according to IDC. While this can be a good thing, indicating the business is scaling and cloud resources … continue reading
ThreatMapper 1.2.0 released with new attack path visualizations
Observability company Deepfence launched new ThreatMapper features to provide DevSecOps professionals with new attack path visualizations, most exploitable vulnerabilities calculations, and AWS Fargate support. ThreatMapper finds hidden attack paths by continuously correlating vulnerabilities with network traffic, identifying much harder to find vulnerable services that are further downstream, behind proxies and exposed indirectly to potentially malicious … continue reading
Fleet raises $5 million in seed funding for device management platform
Fleet, which is a device management platform, has announced that it raised $5 million in seed funding, including support from Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder and CEO of GitLab. Fleet is an open-source project designed to enable developers, security teams, and IT teams to track and secure devices like laptops and servers. SQL queries are used to … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Yor
Yor is an open-source tool that is designed to provide automated tagging and tracing for infrastructure as code (IaC). It automatically tags IaC templates with attribution and ownership details, unique IDs that get carried across to cloud resources, and any other need-to-know information. According to the project’s website, Yor automates away manual and inconsistent tagging … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: ServiceNow Center of Excellence for Accessibility; VMware NSX-T 3.2; Datto acquires Infocyte
ServiceNow has created a Center of Excellence for Accessibility. This center will collaborate with the company’s partners, customers, and internal employee groups to gather feedback on ServiceNow products. The company hopes this will enable it to prioritize accessibility compliance early in the design process. The company also appointed a new global head of accessibility, Eamon … continue reading
Report: The top challenges companies are facing as they undergo IT transformations
It’s obvious that over the past few years, IT teams have been hard at work prioritizing enabling remote or hybrid work. It is still the top priority for a majority of companies. This is according to a new survey from Pulse and cloud access company Citrix, in which 400 IT and security leaders across North … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: ServiceNow Impact; SUSE open sources NeuVector; Pure Storage partner program updates
ServiceNow announced the release of its Impact solution, which provides recommendations and guidance to help companies realize the return on investment in technology solutions. In addition to recommendations, it also provides technical support and preventative tools, role-based training and certifications, and expert coaching. “You can only improve what you can measure. Leaders need a command … continue reading
Mirantis Secure Registry 3.0 can be used alongside any Kubernetes distribution
Mirantis has announced the release of Mirantis Secure Registry 3.0, which now can be used with any Kubernetes distribution. Previously, it could only be deployed by Mirantis Kubernetes Engine. The platform provides a secure software supply chain that companies can use to store, share, and manage images in a private container registry. With the latest … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: NordVPN’s speed test tool
NordVPN developed a new tool that helps users objectively measure and compare the speed of different VPN services. It allows users to add and compare different VPN services, and provides detailed reporting. “Connection speed is one of the most important factors that affect user experience when they use a VPN. People want to secure their … continue reading
