Security News > 2020 > April

Guardicore unveiled new capabilities for its open source Infection Monkey breach and attack simulation tool, used by thousands to review and analyze how their environments may be vulnerable to lateral movement and attacks. The latest version of Guardicore Infection Monkey now maps its actions to the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base, providing a new report with the utilized techniques and recommended mitigations, to help security and network infrastructure teams simulate APT attacks and mitigate real attack paths intelligently.

Leveraging Bugcrowd's global network of uniquely-skilled and proven pen testers, Bugcrowd Classic Pen Test adds to the company's Pen Test Portfolio, helping organizations reduce testing timelines while meeting critical compliance requirements and adhering to security best practices. Bugcrowd's security platform has proven that strategic insertion of human ingenuity across the SDLC can increase critical findings, while reducing risk and business overhead. Bugcrowd Next Gen Pen Test, and now Classic Pen Test, both eliminate these challenges by providing immediate access to an on-demand global network of pay-per-engagement, or pay-per-finding pen testers, thoroughly vetted, intelligently matched, and expertly managed through the Bugcrowd platform.

Veeam Software, the leader in backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, announced the general availability of NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, an enterprise-ready cloud backup and recovery solution. With NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure, Veeam extends its broad platform support with a comprehensive, enterprise-ready solution for added backup and recovery controls of Azure apps and data hosted on Azure virtual machines.

Red Hat has long championed technology evolutions and wants to enable customers to build any application and deploy everywhere with the consistency and flexibility an open hybrid cloud foundation provides. Building on this vision, Red Hat's new offerings are designed to improve the delivery, accessibility and stability of critical services and applications on a worldwide scale on the backbone of the hybrid cloud.

Moogsoft announced the release of Moogsoft Enterprise 8.0, a complete AIOps platform that enables IT Ops and DevOps teams to build a virtual Network Operations Center and work more effectively from anywhere. Moogsoft Enterprise 8.0 consolidates visibility and control of monitoring tools to help entire IT Ops and DevOps teams reduce noise, prioritize incidents, reduce escalations and ensure uptime.

Alert Logic announced key technology investments to its managed detection and response platform to deliver greater attack surface coverage. For more comprehensive security, increased visibility, and better attack protection, Managed Accounts Dashboards have been added to the Alert Logic MDR console.

Sigma Computing, an innovator in cloud-native analytics and business intelligence, has extended the power of Sigma to be used throughout the cloud data analytics stack, solidifying it as the single source of truth for data across entire organizations. "The key benefit is that you don't have to be a specialist to contribute to data modeling and curation, which allows us to iterate more quickly and collaborate more effectively. Sigma has really transformed our analytics and business intelligence process, making data analysis accessible to anyone and giving them the confidence needed to take swift action on the new insights they discover."

Snyk, the leader in developer-first open source security, and Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, announced a new collaboration to strengthen developer-led security for Red Hat customers with new Snyk integrations for Red Hat CodeReady Dependency Analytics and Red Hat OpenShift. Snyk's new OpenShift integration, packaged as a certified Red Hat OpenShiftOperator, helps to simplify the work of platform developers and operators by enhancing the security of Kubernetes and container deployments.

Accedian, a leader in performance analytics, cybersecurity threat detection, and end user experience solutions, and New Context, a leader in Digital Transformation for infrastructure security, announced a strategic partnership to revolutionize next-generation vehicle to grid and cellular vehicle to everything infrastructure. From shipping containers to carriers, Accedian and New Context are poised to help engineer the next generation of V2G and C-V2X solutions.

Adapting to this new normal, GIAC announced its partnership with ProctorU, a well-known and trusted exam delivery service, to offer remote exam delivery. Beginning May 18, 2020, our customers can take their GIAC Certification exams remotely, proctored from wherever they are.