Six security principles that operators of critical OT systems should be following
A number of international government organizations have come together to publish the “Principles of operational technology cyber security,” which features six principles to follow. The guide was created by the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC), and co-sealed by government security offices from the U.S, U.K, Canada, New Zealand, Germany, the Netherlands, … continue reading
Report: IT professionals are struggling with the process of tackling tool sprawl within their organizations
Almost all IT professionals are wanting to consolidate the tools in their organizations, but half of them are feeling overwhelmed by the process of doing so. This is according to Quickbase’s new survey of 1,000 IT professionals in the US, United Kingdom, and Ireland, about the state of technology tool sprawl. “For a long time, … continue reading
Having a Cyber Resiliency plan – and Cleanroom Recovery – is critical to restoring systems after malicious attacks
In today’s threat landscape, a single ransomware attack can cripple a business for weeks, underscoring the critical importance of cyber resiliency. Attacks are becoming more common and more sophisticated, leaving businesses struggling with staggering costs and devastating downtime. Here’s a concerning reality: many organizations currently believe their recovery strategies will protect them in the event … continue reading
DigitalOcean launches GPU Droplets to provide AI infrastructure as a service
DigitalOcean is launching GPU Droplets, which are NVIDIA H100 virtual servers for running AI infrastructures, allowing anyone to work with AI without needing to manage the underlying infrastructure. NVIDIA H100 GPUs are one of the most powerful GPUs available today, according to DigitalOcean, and they include 640 Tensor Cores and 128 Ray Tracing Cores, which … continue reading
pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition provides advanced replication across regions and providers
The distributed Postgres company pgEdge has announced the general availability of its pgEdge Cloud Enterprise Edition, which will make it easier for businesses to distribute their databases across multiple regions and providers. According to the company, this offering builds upon the new capabilities added in the pgEdge Platform Constellation release, which included improvements to logical … continue reading
Podcast: Diving into NIST’s quantum-safe algorithms
There’s been a concern that quantum computers could break the current encryption algorithms we use to protect data today. Recently, NIST announced the approval of three quantum-safe algorithms that could withstand quantum computers. IBM developed two of the approved algorithms, so on the most recent episode of our podcast, Get With IT, we interviewed Vadim … continue reading
Cloudflare’s new Speed Brain feature speeds up website load time with smart prefetching of webpage content
Cloudflare has launched a new feature called Speed Brain that customers can enable to help their websites load faster. Speed Brain prefetches the most likely content a user may navigate to next by using Cloudflare’s Speculation Rules API. “The main goal of Speed Brain is to download a web page to the browser cache before … continue reading
Grafana Labs Simplifies Observability, Unveils AI Enhancements that Help Save Time, Toil and Money at Annual ObservabilityCON
Grafana Labs, the company behind the world’s most ubiquitous, open and composable operational dashboards, today is announcing a series of groundbreaking updates during the keynote at ObservabilityCON in New York City. The keynote, live-streaming on YouTube and LinkedIn at 1pm ET and available on-demand on the company’s YouTube page following the event, showcases major announcements including advancements in AI/ML for observability, significant enhancements … continue reading
Zoom adds advanced features designed for the enterprise
Zoom is expanding its feature set to provide more advanced capabilities for enterprise customers that help them meet compliance, security, privacy, survivability, and manageability requirements. It is launching Zoom Compliance Manager Plus, which is a more advanced version of Zoom Compliance Manager, which was introduced in March and provides features like archiving, eDiscovery, legal hold, … continue reading
ManageEngine creates Decision Intelligence platform for enhanced IT operations
ManageEngine today introduced Spotlight, an AI-driven contextual recommendations engine, as part of the company’s upgrade of its Analytics Plus solution to version 6.0. Spotlight is designed to spot inefficiencies in IT operations and offer remediation strategies. In its announcement, ManageEngine, a Zoho Corporation company, said Spotlight can give IT managers more immediate analysis of metrics … continue reading
Cloudflare adds tools for website owners to block AI bots and scrapers
Cloudflare is making it easy for website owners to block AI bots and scrapers from using their content with a new set of tools that provide control over how website content is used. According to Cloudflare, AI models are typically trained on content across the web, often without the creator even knowing about it or … continue reading
Wind River delivers commercial offering of eLxr project to facilitate cloud-to-edge deployments
Wind River has announced a new commercial Linux offering designed specifically for cloud-to-edge deployments. The offering, eLxr Pro, is based on the eLxr open source project, which consists of Debian packages that have been optimized for performance, security, and size required to run edge workloads. According to Wind River, the project came at a time … continue reading
Pulumi ESC now generally available, Insights 2.0 released
The infrastructure as code company Pulumi has announced the general availability of Pulumi ESC and the release of Pulumi Insights 2.0 during its annual user conference, PulumiUP. Pulumi ESC, which stands for environments, secrets, and configuration, is a centralized secrets management platform. In this GA release, the company has added a new projects system that … continue reading
Edera Raises $5M Seed Round to Introduce the World’s Only Secure-By-Design Kubernetes and AI Solution
Edera, the world’s only secure-by-design Kubernetes and AI solution, today announced it has raised $5 million in a seed round led by 645 Ventures and Eniac Ventures with participation from FPV Ventures, Generationship, Precursor Ventures and Rosecliff Ventures. Angel investors include Joe Beda, Filippo Valsorda, Mandy Andress, Jeff Behl and Kleiner Perkins scout Nikitha Suryadevara, … continue reading
