Security News > 2020 > May

Ermetic, the cloud access risk security company, emerged from stealth mode and announced an analytics-based solution that prevents cloud data breaches by automating the detection and remediation...

Deque Systems, a leading software company specializing in digital accessibility, introduced axe Linter, an automated GitHub-based app which checks source code for common accessibility issues, automatically finding and suggesting fixes. Developers can supplement existing accessibility testing efforts by using axe Linter to catch accessibility problems early in the development process, significantly reducing future testing and remediation efforts.

Self-service request portal: Automate, track, and monitor requests and preferences management. Data rights lifecycle management: Manage approvals, task delegation and deletion workflows with an admin dashboard.

The eDiscovery technology company CloudNine launches CloudNine Data Wrangler, a new software solution to inventory and prioritize collected data for enhanced processing decisions and throughput. "With a fast and complete inventory of collected data, we will be able to quickly promote the most time sensitive mailboxes and folders to processing and review. We have already identified a set of projects and clients who will benefit by adding Data Wrangler to the Rational eDiscovery workflow."

TransUnion announced the creation of its Global Fraud & Identity Solutions Group, a move focused on uniting all aspects of the company's fraud risk offerings, and the hiring of industry veteran, Shai Cohen, to lead the group. "For years TransUnion has been a leading force in fraud prevention with a steady stream of high-profile acquisitions, product innovations and industry hires," said Tim Martin, executive vice president and chief global solutions officer at TransUnion.

CloudBees, the enterprise software delivery company, announced a new release of CloudBees Feature Flags that enables developers to manage production deployments of new functionality in a controlled manner with an on-premise feature manager. The new offering strengthens CloudBees' leadership in the continuous integration/continuous delivery space by extending users' ability to leverage feature flag technology in both on-premise and cloud environments.

Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service, a new, highly performant, fully managed, low-cost warm storage tier that provides fast, interactive analytics of log data at one-tenth the cost of existing storage options. UltraWarm for Amazon Elasticsearch Service gives Elasticsearch customers a warm storage tier that both stores large amounts of data cost-effectively and provides the type of snappy, interactive experience that Elasticsearch customers expect.

About a third of firms and organisations in Europe and the Middle East still believe the humble password is a good enough security measure, according to a survey carried out by French firm Thales. Thales, which bought secure mobile phone SIM card biz Gemalto in 2017, reckoned that over half of IT pros it polled said that unsecured infrastructure was the most likely attack surface.

King & Union launched a suite of new service offerings to augment its Avalon Cyber Analysis Platform and help customers address the human aspect of threat intelligence operations, bridging common gaps that many security teams face. "With the introduction of new services, King & Union is recognizing the critical human component of efficient threat intelligence operations. Threat intelligence analysts are hard to find and even harder to keep."

Taqtile, the leading provider of enterprise software for industrial workers, announces the 2.0 release of their flagship product Manifest. "What is needed are tools designed specifically to enable and empower front line workers, the sort of which Taqtile has been providing in Manifest for the last three years. Now, with the release of Manifest 2.0 we take, 'Everyone is an Expert' to new heights by enabling workers to connect with experts whenever and wherever they need, easily creating workgroups that enable teams to work together more efficiently."