Report: 75% of organizations say conducting regular access reviews strengthens their cybersecurity posture
A majority of companies agree on the importance of conducting regular reviews of who has access to their systems, but many of these companies are still doing these reviews manually. The cybersecurity vendor, Netwrix, has released the results of its recent survey that looked at 590 IT professionals’ treatment of user access permissions. The report … continue reading
ITOps Open-Source Project of the Week: Antrea
Antrea is an open source Kubernetes project that provides networking and security capabilities for pod workloads. Key capabilities include the ability to create overlay networks, enforce network policies, and improve network performance. It utilizes both the Container Network Interface (CNI) and Kubernetes NetworkPolicy, and extends the capabilities of networks built on top of Open vSwitch. … continue reading
Preserve positive user experiences when transitioning to SASE
Let’s face it, the internet has become the new enterprise network. Increasingly, the services and applications that an organization’s employees use to be productive and drive new business are based in the cloud. And employees access these resources from anywhere – the office, from home, from the airport, on the road – from anywhere. That’s … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: kube-monkey
Kube-monkey is an implementation of Netflix’s Chaos Monkey specifically for Kubernetes clusters. It works by randomly removing Kubernetes (k8s) pods in the cluster, encouraging and validating the development of failure-resilient services. According to GitHub, kube-monkey runs at a pre-configured hour on weekdays and creates a schedule of deployments that will experience a pod death at … continue reading
Microsoft introduces new cost management updates
Microsoft recently announced several updates that have been made regarding cloud cost management. These updates are intended to bring users visibility into what they are spending and where they are spending it so there are no surprises when it comes to the bill. The first of these updates is the ability to view costs in … continue reading
SysAid launches AI Service Desk
SysAid, provider of IT service automation, today announced the release of its AI Service Desk, a conversational chatbot operating within Microsoft Teams that is powered by SysAid’s IT automation capabilities. The service desk works to reduce the time spent by employees and IT experts on ticket resolution, to increase productivity, and allow those workers to … continue reading
Sysdig introduces Drift Control to prevent runtime container attacks
The unified container and cloud security company Sysdig, today announced Drift Control in order to prevent container attacks at runtime. With this, teams have the ability to detect, prevent, and accelerate incident response for containers that were modified in production. The company also stated that it has enhanced malware and cryptomining detection with new threat … continue reading
ServiceNow announces LightStep Notebooks
ServiceNow, the SaaS cloud and computing software company, today announced LightStep Notebooks in order to deliver unified, comprehensive analysis across applications and infrastructure. This release allows developers to analyze data through visualizations while creating a structured view of the investigation steps as well as a path to resolution. LightStep Notebooks also enables SREs and developers … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Nephio
Nephio is an open-source initiative in the telecommunications industry that consists of industry partners who are working towards true cloud-native automation in large scale edge deployments. According to the project website, existing orchestration methods for distributed cloud prevent companies from taking advantage of the dynamic capabilities of infrastructure platforms. Nephio hopes to address the “initial … continue reading
Zscaler announces new Zero Trust capabilities
Zscaler announced newly advanced AI/ML innovations for better user protection and digital experience monitoring in Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange security platform. This comes as organizations are facing a 314% increase in cyberattacks on encrypted internet traffic and an 80% increase in ransomware with nearly a 120% increase in double extortion attacks, the company found in … continue reading
NVIDIA becomes founding member of OPI project
NVIDIA announced that it cofounded a Linux Foundation project to democratize innovations in the data center and to further open the NVIDIA DOCA data processing unit software to software providers. The Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) project aims to create a community-driven, standards-based open ecosystem to accelerate networking and other data center infrastructure tasks, according to … continue reading
Moogsoft expands event correlation capabilities in latest platform update
AIOps company Moogsoft has announced new features that will give IT operators great insights and offer more compatibility with various tools. A number of updates are related to correlation. Incident origin is a new feature that specifies which correlation was used to create an incident, correlation containers allow for grouping of correlation definitions, and correlation … continue reading
Red Hat and Ericsson partner to help service providers build multi-vendor networks
Red Hat and Ericsson announced a collaboration for validating network functions and platforms to enable service providers to bring next-generation services to market faster in a multi-vendor scenario. The companies are immersed in a broader ecosystem collaboration to simplify the integration of different technologies and suppliers since multi-vendor networks require proven interoperability to maintain flexibility … continue reading
Cloudflare expands zero trust platform
Cloudflare announced several new capabilities for Cloudflare One, its Zero Trust SASE platform, including email security protection, data loss prevention tools, cloud access security broker (CASB), and private network discovery. “When I sit with customers, they share that one of the most daunting aspects of Zero Trust security is simply where to begin. Making matters … continue reading
