ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Turris Omnia
Turris Omnia is an open source router that features a distributed firewall that adapts to the threats coming into a network to provide more robust security. This firewall works by sending a fingerprint of suspicious traffic that it detects to the Turris headquarters and then evaluating it against other data from other Turris routers. Then, … continue reading
Cisco announces new Wi-Fi 6E access points
Cisco revealed new innovations across its portfolio, including high-end Wi-Fi 6E access points, private 5G for the enterprise as a managed service, and new high-powered Catalyst 9000X series switches with Cisco Silicon One. The Wi-Fi 6E access points are from Catalyst and Meraki and offer gigabit performance. According to Cisco, this new offering is the … continue reading
Aqua Security adds new features for assessing security risk
Cloud-native security company Aqua Security is introducing new features that will help companies address their security risk to its Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). According to Aqua Security, users can choose whether to go with a quick assessment of workload risk, or they can actively protect those workloads from attacks in runtime. They can … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: JumpCloud Patch Management; SentinelOne and MimeCast integration; SoftIron and SUSE Rancher partnership
JumpCloud has added new patch management capabilities to its cloud directory platform to give organizations more insight into potential vulnerabilities in their systems and enable them to deploy automated patches. Users will be able to create schedules, report on system patches and versions, and see patch versions across their organization. “We all know that users … continue reading
StarlingX R6.0 released by Wind River
StarlingX, the platform that builds out infrastructure from the core to the edge by providing a scalable foundation with OpenStack, has reached its R6.0 release. The platform can be used to build out an organization’s central cloud and can be installed on the edge to manage a smaller pool of resources. In addition, the platform … continue reading
Tenable.cs updates allow for vulnerability prioritization
Security company Tenable has announced a number of new additions to Tenable.cs, which is the company’s cloud-native security solution. According to Tenable, the new updates are intended to allow companies to “secure cloud resources, container images and cloud assets to provide end-to-end security from code to cloud to workload.” Users can now use Tenable.cs to … continue reading
Red Hat introduces new data and storage capabilities to OpenShift Platform Plus
Red Hat has announced new additions to OpenShift Platform Plus that will incorporate data services like software-defined storage into the platform. OpenShift Platform Plus is a hybrid cloud platform that provides a multicloud Kubernetes stack out of the box. This is being made possible through an integration with OpenShift Data Foundation, which is a data … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Citrix acquired; AppOmni’s new features; Barracuda’s new integrations for MSPs
Desktop virtualization company Citrix has announced that it is being acquired by affiliates of Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital Corporation. Vista and Evergreen previously acquired TIBCO Software and they plan to merge the companies’ solutions together. This will add TIBCO’s analytics capabilities to Citrix’s digital workspace and application security suite, which will enable … continue reading
Report: Top 10 of most-used apps deal with app monitoring and incident response
This year saw substantial growth in apps that help organizations monitor their systems and respond quickly as the top 10 most popular developer tools used dealt with app monitoring and incident response. This stems from Okta’s new report “Businesses at Work” which gathered data from more than 14,000 global customers and the Okta Integration Network. … continue reading
DoControl announces no-code security workflows for SaaS applications
The automated SaaS security company DoControl announced no-code security workflows that brings Zero Trust into the SaaS data layer. DoControl’s security workflows allow for consistent, granular, and customizable data access controls, which helps to close the gaps found in inflexible hard-coded and out-of-the-box policies. “Security teams are becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of visibility … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Tracee
Tracee is an open-source runtime security and forensics tool that uses Linux eBPF for tracing applications at runtime. It analyzes the events it collects in order to discover suspicious patterns of behavior. It was developed at Aqua Security and released as an open-source project in 2019 in order to allow practitioners and researchers to benefit … continue reading
Rancher Desktop 1.0.0 is now generally available
Rancher Desktop 1.0.0, the open-source app for desktop Kubernetes and container management on Mac, Windows and Linux is now available from SUSE, which acquired Rancher in 2020. Rancher Desktop provides Kubernetes, using the k3s distribution at the version of a user’s choice, which enables users to set up a local Kubernetes environment using the same … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: Voltage File Analysis Suite SmartScan; Replication in Amazon EFS; Portnox closes $22 million Series A
CyberRes by Micro Focus has announced a new feature in Voltage File Analysis Suite (FAS), which is a platform for searching for and protecting sensitive data. The new feature in FAS is SmartScan, which helps cut down on the time needed to find data. It also reduces data privacy compliance time. SmartScan also enables users … continue reading
ITOps Times news digest: VMware NSX Upgrade Evaluation Tool; SafeBreach’s ransomware assessment challenge; Ivanti Neurons risk-based patch management
VMware has announced a new tool to make it easier for customers to upgrade to NSX-T Data Center 3.2.x. The NSX Upgrade Evaluation Tool checks the health and readiness of NSX managers before an upgrade. It works by making a copy of the databases from an existing NSX Manager and then validates the data against … continue reading
