ITOps Times news digest: SentinelOne and ServiceNow integration; Adaptive Shield joins Cloud Security Alliance; Keeper Security Secrets Manager
Security company SentinelOne has announced a new app through ServiceNow to improve incident response for companies. SentinelOne App for ServiceNow Security Incident Response (SIR) syncs threats from SentinelOne into the ServiceNow Incident Response Module, where responders can view relevant incident details around a threat, such as incident status and threat notes. Adaptive Shield joins Cloud … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Moogsoft partners with Alesia Labs; Ivanti Neurons for IIoT; ReadyWorks Series A
AIOps company Moogsoft has announced a new partnership with observability company Alesia Labs. Moogsoft will improve Alesia Labs’ observability portfolio with new AIOps capabilities, such as noise reduction, anomaly detection, and insight enrichment. “Moogsoft is excited to work with the Alesia Lab team to deliver new capabilities to the company’s existing client base,” said Mike … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Google Cloud acquires Siemplify; 1NCE and AWS partnership; and Ontic updates Real-Time Threat Detection
Google Cloud has acquired Siemplify, which is a provider of security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR). According to Google Cloud, this acquisition will enable it to further its vision of offering a modern threat management stack that will empower customers to go beyond security event and information management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR) … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Submariner
Submariner is a tool for networking between Pods and Services in Kubernetes clusters. According to the project’s website, as teams continue to adopt Kubernetes, they are discovering that they need to deploy and manage multiple clusters in order to enable capabilities like geo-redundancy, scale, and fault isolation. Submariner was created so that companies could have … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: NS1’s new outage mitigation solution; Samsung PM1743; OpenText acquires Zix
NS1 has announced a new solution that it hopes will help companies mitigate the effects of internet outages. It combines the company’s DNS solutions, Filter Chain technology for rerouting traffic, and automation capabilities. “Internet infrastructure can be unpredictable, especially in the wake of a global pandemic that continues to drive unprecedented traffic and network congestion,” … continue reading
The top 10 stories on ITOps Times in 2021
It’s not always easy to read every new article on trends in IT throughout the year. Our holiday gift to you is this list of our top 10 trending stories of the year, in case there were any you missed out on. Happy reading! Report: IT jobs expected to get harder in hybrid work model … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Datto launches Log4j mitigation tool; Harvester 1.0.0 released; ServiceMax announces Spark 360
In an effort to help managed service providers (MSPs) mitigate the Log4j vulnerability, Datto has released a free tool. The Endpoint Assessment Tool can enumerate vulnerable systems, detect intrusion attempts, and protect Windows systems against attacks. “During this critical time, I am pleased to see there has been some great information sharing and that we … continue reading
Self-service IT helps eliminate many operations bottlenecks
Running the IT operations of a company is no easy job. Not only do operations teams have to maintain all of the company’s systems, they also have to ensure positive user experiences, resolve incidents quickly, and help keep developers productive. Luckily, there are ways to ease the burden on IT teams. In a webinar on … continue reading
Report: 74% of companies not achieving true observability despite massive investments
If you need any more proof that you need observability in your systems, look no further than last week’s large AWS outage. It took down many large websites, and was a great reminder that you need to know what your systems are doing at all times in order to be able to properly respond when … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Second Log4j vulnerability detected; IBM and Samsung make new semiconductor breakthrough; Linux Foundation announces new IT course
A second vulnerability has been detected in Log4j that renders previous mitigations for versions 2.7.0 to 2.14.1 potentially useless, according to LunaSec. The security company explained that your systems may be vulnerable if you only enabled the “formatMsgNoLookups” flag or set “%m{nolookups} when setting attacker controlled data in ThreadContext. It recommends updating to at least … continue reading
The tradeoffs of moving to the cloud can be alleviated with a hybrid approach
Cloud adoption is at an all-time high, but massive outages, such as last week’s AWS outage have highlighted that there are indeed some tradeoffs that occur when moving to the cloud, such as their applications being unavailable when their cloud provider experiences an outage. Even though systems are designed for reliability — especially at the … continue reading
Log4j vulnerability is “absolutely brutal”
A major vulnerability was discovered Thursday in the technology Log4j, which is a popular logging package in Java. According to Ashan Dabirsiaghi, co-founder and chief scientist at Contrast Security, Log4j is the most popular logging framework for Java. Essentially any Java application that logs data uses it, and it is used by millions of applications. … continue reading
