Microsoft Entra gets several improvements in July update
Microsoft has announced a number of updates to its identity and access management (IAM) solution, Microsoft Entra. The company is starting to roll out user experience updates to the Microsoft Authenticator app. The app will soon categorize key actions, such as credentials configured in the app, additional sign-in methods, and account management options. Microsoft is … continue reading
Cloudflare users can now block AI bots, scrapers, and crawlers by changing one setting
Cloudflare has added a new option in its settings to help its customers easily block AI bots, scrapers, and crawlers with a single click. Companies building generative AI models use web scrapers to get content to train their models with. “Google reportedly paid $60 million a year to license Reddit’s user generated content, Scarlett Johansson … continue reading
IBM and Microsoft partner to help companies modernize security operations
IBM and Microsoft have announced a new partnership designed to help companies modernize their security operations and protect themselves from cloud identity threats. To help companies be better protected against cloud identity threats, the two companies created a new offering based on IBM Consulting’s automation, accelerators, and industry domain knowledge and the Microsoft Entra suite … continue reading
AWS adds ability to group Amazon WorkSpaces virtual desktops into pools of similar users
AWS has just announced that customers can now create pools, or groups, of non-persistent virtual desktops through Amazon WorkSpaces. These pools can then be shared across a group of users, and each user in a pool gets the same applications and experience. According to AWS, users can access the virtual desktops via a browser, desktop … continue reading
Chrome will no longer trust certificates from Entrust starting in November
In a move to strengthen user privacy and security in Chrome, Google has announced that new certificates from the certificate authority (CA) company, Entrust, will no longer be trusted, starting in November. Google cited a “pattern of compliance failures, unmet improvement commitments, and the absence of tangible, measurable progress in response to publicly disclosed incident … continue reading
Snipe-IT – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
Snipe-IT is an open-source IT asset and license management tool that can help IT teams get more visibility into what they own, who has an asset, and where it is. The platform has an admin dashboard that shows recent asset activity, such as items that have been checked in/out or were recently updated or deleted. … continue reading
Report: Open source will pave the way for intelligent networking
Telecommunications vendors are moving towards an innovative future, with many adopting technologies like open source software, cloud-native architectures, and network APIs. A recent report from the Linux Foundation explored how these companies are using these technologies today and how open source will be critical to adopting AI-based networking, or intelligent networking. “The future of intelligent … continue reading
Amazon SQS receives optimizations that reduce latency, increase capacity, and improve scalability
Amazon has announced that it made several improvements to Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) to reduce latency, increase fleet capacity, improve scalability, and reduce power consumption. Amazon SQS is a messaging queue for microservices, distributed systems, and serverless apps, and it’s been around since 2006. The company is announcing that it improved the connection … continue reading
Datadog releases a number of observability, security updates at DASH
Datadog is hosting its annual event, DASH, this week. At the event, the company showed off several new features across its entire platform, from observability to security. Observability Datadog LLM Observability allows customers to monitor their LLM apps to identify drifts in prompt topics and responses, mitigate prompt injections, detect personally identifiable information (PII) leakage, … continue reading
Bitwarden brings its secrets manager to Kubernetes
Password manager Bitwarden has announced it is beginning to integrate its Secrets Manager into Kubernetes workflows. This functionality is currently in public beta and will enable DevOps teams to securely manage secrets like API keys, passwords, and tokens across their Kubernetes environment. The integration is done via an operator that is deployed by the Helm … continue reading
SELKS – ITOps Times Open Source Project of the Week
SELKS is an open-source network security monitoring platform that offers network intrusion and detection capabilities. The name comes from the original components it was built around: Suratica, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Scirius. It has since expanded to include EveBox, Arkime, and CyberChef as well. It can be installed on any Linux or Windows operating system … continue reading
NinjaOne adds mobile device management capabilities to its endpoint management platform
The endpoint management provider NinjaOne has announced that its platform now offers mobile device management capabilities. Companies will now be able to monitor their Android and Apple devices from the same interface they manage the rest of their devices. Customers will be able to use the new offering to quickly create and enforce mobile device … continue reading
