Topic: security
Microsoft acquires CloudKnox Security for privileged access capabilities
Microsoft announced that it acquired the cloud Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) provider CloudKnox Security to offer unified privileged access and cloud entitlement management. “The company’s solution helps organizations right-size permissions and consistently enforce least-privilege principles to reduce risk, and it employs continuous analytics to help prevent security breaches and ensure compliance. This strengthens our … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: MicroK8s
MicroK8s allows for low-ops, minimal production Kubernetes for devs, cloud, clusters, workstations, edge and IoT. It is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) certified upstream Kubernetes deployment that runs entirely on your workstation or edge device. The project automatically chooses the best nodes for the Kubernetes datastore, and when a cluster database is lost, another … continue reading
IBM adds enhanced data protection to FlashSystem
IBM announced that it is bringing advanced data protection capabilities to the IBM FlashSystem family of all flash arrays to help companies plan for and recover quickly from ransomware and cyberattacks. IBM Safeguarded Copy, which automatically creates data copies in “immutable snapshots,” will now be integrated into the IBM FlashSystem family. In the event of … continue reading
Report: 94% of organizations have suffered from insider data breaches
A lot of focus is made on hardening systems from outside attacks, but threats from within the company shouldn’t be ignored. Results from Egress’ Insider Data Breach Survey 2021 showed that 94% of organizations have fallen victim to insider data breaches in the last year alone. The survey was conducted by Arlington Research on behalf … continue reading
Cloud Security Alliance releases Enterprise Architecture Reference Guide v2
The Cloud Security Alliance announced the release of the Enterprise Architecture Reference Guide v2, which provides users with a compilation of every domain and container within the CSA Enterprise Architecture v2.3. “This reference guide is fundamentally important for risk managers in evaluating opportunities for improvement, creating road maps for technology adoption, identifying reusable security patterns, … continue reading
VMware unveils Anywhere Workspace for distributed organizations
VMware wants distributed organizations to be able to embrace work from anywhere with the release of its Anywhere Workspace. The new solution aims to manage multi-modal employee experience while providing better security at the edge and reducing costs and operational overhead. “Organizations are facing many challenges, such as ensuring good connectivity for remote employees, monitoring … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Red-Shadow
Cloud security provider Lightspin developed a new open-source scanner Red-Shadow that reports when user permissions are loosely defined, which opens up an attack path for hackers. Lightspin released the scanner after it announced the results of its research that discovered a gap between AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user group policies that attackers can … continue reading
Report: Fusion of security and network planning is accelerating
The fusion of security and network planning has been accelerating over the past year, according to Aryaka’s recently released 2021 Global State of the WAN report. According to the report, almost a third of companies surveyed are already deploying secure access service edge (SASE) architectures. This close integration of networks and security will become even … continue reading
Aqua Security launches Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform for containers and VMs running on Arm devices
Aqua Security launched a new container runtime security solution for Arm 64-bit environments that enables organizations to protect their high-density workloads on platforms such as AWS Graviton2 instances and more. “Our customers will be able to continue and accelerate their cloud native journey with Aqua’s support for Arm-based architectures. Through our commitment to supporting the … continue reading
Sequitur Labs expands EmSPARK Security Suite with Base and Advanced packages
Sequitur Labs announced two new options for its EmSPARK Security Solutions with both Base and Advanced packages that allows manufacturers to secure embedded designs for IoT protection. The Sequitur Labs product was essentially broken into two different offerings for people at different stages of their embedded security development. The Base package provides the essential security … continue reading
ITOps Times Open-Source Project of the Week: pfSense
This week’s featured project of the week is pfSense, a free network firewall distribution. It is based on the FreeBSD operating system, includes a custom kernel and provides the same or more functionality of common commercial firewalls with no artificial limitations. It is currently used around the world from companies like Check Point, Cisco PIX, … continue reading
Rapid7 acquires Kubernetes security provider Alcide
Rapid7 acquired the Kubernetes provider Alcide to help its customers rapidly adopt and secure cloud environments. Alcide provides Kubernetes security fully integrated into the DevOps lifecycle and processes so that business applications can be rapidly deployed while also protecting cloud environments from malicious attacks, according to Brian Johnson, the SVP of Cloud Security Practice at … continue reading
