Google Cloud acquires Mandiant for $5.4 billion
Google entered into a definitive agreement to acquire threat intelligence provider Mandiant for approximately $5.4 billion. Upon the close of the acquisition, Mandiant will join Google Cloud. Mandiant gathers research from more than 300 intelligence analysts to power its dynamic cyber defense solutions that are delivered through the managed multi-vendor XDR platform, Mandiant Advantage. Together … continue reading
New study finds that enterprises are struggling to keep endpoints updated and secure
The cloud-native IT operations provider, Automox, today unveiled the findings of its third annual State of IT Operations Report. The findings revealed that the challenge of managing endpoints has become even bigger than it was in the Automox 2021 report. Additionally, the report showed that many organizations continue to struggle with the challenges of utilizing … continue reading
DENT 2.0 released
DENT 2.0 is now available with new features that can be utilized by distributed enterprises in retail and remote facilities. The DENT project is an open-source network that uses the Linux Kernel, Switchdev, and other Linux-based projects. DENT was launched in December 2019 under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation with the aim to simplify … continue reading
No one is cyber-secure in a cyberwar
The potential for cyberattacks has placed many organizations beyond Ukraine on high alert for any threats, and has left them wondering what they can do to bolster their security posture. “Unlike traditional warfare, which generally only has impacts in and around a specific conflict zone, cyberattacks can have far-reaching impacts beyond the initial target that … continue reading
Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity launch Critical Infrastructure Defense Project
Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity partnered up to strengthen U.S. cybersecurity in light of increased cyber threats. The new Critical Infrastructure Defense Project will provide free cybersecurity services to vulnerable industries. Eligible organizations will have access to the full suite of Cloudflare Zero Trust solutions, endpoint protection, and intelligence services from CrowdStrike. The project will … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: CoreDNS
CoreDNS is an open-source DNS server that offers chaining of plugins. Individual plugins are used for tasks like Kubernetes service discovery, Prometheus metrics, rewriting queries, or serving from zone files. Other key capabilities include signing zone data on-the-fly, load balancing, enabling zone transfers, caching DNS responses, and serving as a proxy to forward queries to … continue reading
IRConf: the first conference dedicated to incident response
In this time of rapidly evolving digital transformation, the ability to quickly identify and remediate problems has become more important than ever. In order to address this issue, Kintaba created IRConf, a conference dedicated to the discussion of effective incident response strategies. This conference is the first of its kind and is set to be … continue reading
Amazon announces new capabilities to enable IPv6 workloads to communicate with IPv4 services
Amazon announced two new capabilities for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Nat gateway and Amazon Route 53. These new capabilities will allow IPv6-only workloads to transparently communicate with IPv4-only services. Amazon announced these capabilities as a response to the difficulty that companies were having with letting workloads continue to communicate with IPv4 services and to … continue reading
VMware announces new container runtime security capabilities
VMware unveiled new container runtime security capabilities to provide end-to-end security for cloud-native applications. The new capabilities aim to target the security challenges of containerized applications including how to allow only legitimate traffic in and how to enable least-privileged communications between services and defend against the lateral movement of attackers, according to the company. “Protecting … continue reading
Rakuten Symphony agrees to acquire leading US-based cloud technology company Robin.io to deliver highly integrated telco-cloud for mobile
Rakuten Symphony, Inc. today announced an agreement to acquire leading Silicon Valley-based cloud technology start-up, Robin.io. The addition of Robin.io’s multi-cloud mobility, hyper automation and orchestration capabilities to the Rakuten Symphony portfolio allows the creation of highly efficient, consistent high performance cloud infrastructure and operations, from edge to central data center. Collaboration between Rakuten and … continue reading
Take an agile approach to infrastructure
Infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders are under huge pressure to improve agility to accelerate product delivery and strengthen alignment between IT and the business. However, little guidance exists about what it means for I&O to become agile, as most existing literature around agile is aimed at development groups. Here is where the difference between becoming … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Argo
Earlier this month, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced that the Argo project had seen 115% year-over-year growth, according to the results of its annual survey. In addition to this growth, the CNCF explained that Argo is one of the highest velocity projects in the organization. Argo provides a set of tools for running … continue reading
Forward Enterprise update provides prediction capabilities for network monitoring
Monitoring company Forward Networks has announced new features to its Forward Enterprise platform, giving customers a full 360-degree view of physical and virtual environments. The solution creates a digital twin of the environment, which teams can then use to troubleshoot, verify intent, and predict behavior by calculating possible traffic paths. Other key features of the … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Cloudflare acquires Area 1 Security; Sumo Logic Cloud SOAR updates; Zenoss monitoring updates for Kubernetes
Cloudflare has announced that it is acquiring the cloud-native security company Area 1 Security in order to bolster email security capabilities. Cloudflare had previously released its first email security product last year with Email Security DNS Wizard, which targets email spoofing and phishing. “Area 1 has spent years training their machine learning models with email … continue reading
