Topic: security
Dell announces new Zero Trust features to help customers prevent security threats
Dell has announced new features and capabilities to help customers prevent, detect, and respond to security threats. First up, it is now offering the ability for customers to disable PC ports before they ship. According to Dell, this will help prevent BIOS settings from being tampered with during shipping. Tamper-evident seals will also be made … continue reading
Tenable announces new exposure management platform
Tenable today announced the release of Tenable One, an Exposure Management Platform to unify discovery and visibility into all assets to assess their exposures and vulnerabilities across an entire attack surface. The platform brings the organization’s entire attack surface (both on-premises and cloud-based) into a single view. It aggregates vulnerability data across the IT infrastructure, … continue reading
SPIFFE and SPIRE projects graduate from CNCF Incubator
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that SPIFFE and SPIRE are now graduated projects. Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone (SPIFFE) provides a secure identity to workloads in modern production environments and SPIRE (the SPIFFE Runtime Environment) is the code that implements the SPIFFE specification on a wide variety of platforms. SPIRE exposes the … continue reading
Sysdig announces new CSPM and guided remediation tool
Sysdig, the unified container and cloud security company, has unveiled ToDo, a cloud security posture management offering that aggregates security findings by root cause and prioritizes remindiation based on impact, and Remediation Guru, which offers guided remediation at the source. According to Sysdig, ToDo works to save time during investigations and Remediation Guru enables security … continue reading
Google completes acquisition of Mandiant
Google announced that it completed the acquisition of Mandiant, a provider of dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. The addition of Mandiant’s threat intelligence to Google’s data processing, novel analytics approaches with AI and machine learning, and a focus on eliminating entire classes of threats aims to help enterprises stay protected at … continue reading
Report: Nearly half of companies rely on outdated backup and recovery infrastructure
Nearly half of companies are using outdated, legacy backup and recovery infrastructure to manage and protect their data, according to a survey commissioned by data management company Cohesity. The survey of more than 2,000 IT and SecOps professionals in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand was conducted this April and was … continue reading
Red Hat announces updates to OpenShift Platform Plus
Red Hat announced a new iteration of OpenShift Platform Plus, which simplifies the Kubernetes stack and includes capabilities that improve storage, management and more. OpenShift Platform Plus includes Red Hat’s latest tools for managing the entire SDLC across Kubernetes clusters, including Red Hat OpenShift 4.11, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.6, and Red … continue reading
SentinelOne announces partnership with Armis
The autonomous cybersecurity platform SentinelOne announced a new integration with Armis, a unified asset intelligence platform. The collaboration will help protect organizations by providing unified and unparalleled visibility across endpoints, cloud, mobile, IoT, OT devices, and more. “With every piece of new technology, the challenge of IT orchestration grows, particularly from a security perspective,” said … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Cilium Service Mesh
Isovalent, the company that builds open-source cloud-native networking software that solves networking, security, and observability for modern infrastructure, announced the availability of Cilium Service Mesh. Users will be able to run the service mesh completely without sidecars while supporting various control plane options. Cilium Service Mesh complements the existing Istio integration based on sidecars that … continue reading
Aqua Security and D2iQ partner on securing cloud-native apps
D2iQ announced a partnership with Aqua Security that will enable organizations to create seamless DevSecOps experiences that accelerate the deployment of secure smart cloud-native applications. With the partnership, organizations can run Aqua’s Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) on the D2iQ Kubernetes Platform (DKP) and enhance the security of containerized workloads. Aqua on DKP can … continue reading
CompTIA launches new Linux+ certification exam
The IT certification company CompTIA announced the worldwide release of the CompTIA Linux+ certification exam, which covers the latest foundational skills demanded by hiring managers. The new exam validates technology professionals’ skills to secure the enterprise, power the cloud, and keep tech systems running. “As organizations opt for Linux-based solutions to automate and orchestrate critical … continue reading
Zscaler announces new Zero Trust capabilities
Zscaler announced newly advanced AI/ML innovations for better user protection and digital experience monitoring in Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange security platform. This comes as organizations are facing a 314% increase in cyberattacks on encrypted internet traffic and an 80% increase in ransomware with nearly a 120% increase in double extortion attacks, the company found in … continue reading
