Security News > 2020 > June
The newly introduced Chef Compliance and Chef Desktop, in addition to notable enhancements to Chef's application delivery capabilities, help organizations enforce and maintain compliance; deploy, manage, and secure desktop, laptop and kiosk workstation fleets and accelerate application definition and delivery. "Enterprises today are striving to do more with less through automation, unifying formerly mission-specific teams to create more efficient IT environments where concrete business outcomes are prioritized over adherence to role-driven processes," said Jim Mercer, research director, DevOps, IDC. "Chef's product portfolio is positioned to help enterprises achieve an everything-as-code ethos and empower teams to cut across silos, with better visibility into and control over secure infrastructure and application definition and delivery."
Mozilla has emitted security updates for Firefox to address eight CVE-listed security flaws, five of them considered to be high-risk vulnerabilities. Of the five high-risk flaws, three are confirmed to allow arbitrary code execution, which in the case of a web browser means that simply loading up a malicious page could lead to malware running on your machine.
Cyemptive Technologies, a provider of preemptive cybersecurity products and technology and winner of the Department of Homeland Security's national competition for most innovative border security-related solution in the market, unveiled Version 2 of Cyemptive Enterprise Scanner. It is a substantial improvement to the world's first scanning technology that preemptively scans for infected files such as ransomware, malware, and other cyberthreats before they infect a system, as compared to other existing scanning technology that detects files only after the infection has commenced.
A Chinese threat actor has developed new capabilities to target air-gapped systems in an attempt to exfiltrate sensitive data for espionage, according to a newly published research by Kaspersky yesterday. "One of the newly revealed tools is named USBCulprit and has been found to rely on USB media in order to exfiltrate victim data," Kaspersky said.
By Light Professional IT Services and the intelligence-led security company, FireEye announced the integration of Mandiant Threat Intelligence within By Light's Cyberoperations Enhanced Network and Training Simulators. As today's cyberspace landscape features an increasing number of well-funded, highly organized, and complex adversaries, the use of real-world threat intelligence in training and exercises has become crucial to defending effectively against cyberspace attacks.
"The partnership between Privitar and BigID makes both of these possible, enabling enterprises to leverage their data safely and at great speed." Organizations can maximize the value of their sensitive data by realizing seamless data discovery, programmatic tagging of categories, automated data provisioning, and consistent privacy preservation.
OffsiteDataSync is proud to announce the expansion of its partnership with Zerto to become a Gold Level Zerto Alliance Partner. The move further enables OffsiteDataSync to serve a broad spectrum of businesses with top performing DRaaS options powered by Zerto.
Avaya Holdings and Windstream Enterprise, a managed communications services provider, announced an expansion of their partnership and a new joint product development framework designed to foster enhanced innovation, enabling both companies to develop combined solutions that accelerate the path to cloud for their mutual customers. Leveraging the recent expansion of the Avaya IX Subscription program, partners like Windstream Enterprise can realize considerable revenue growth from new customers as well as existing customer migrations, whilst offering more value.
Kenenty Hwan Kim, aka Myung Kim, 64, pleaded guilty [PDF] in a Texas court this week to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Using an email address very similar to Chance's, Kim asked Solid Bridge to send a $210,000 check for an invoice to an address in Washington state.
Snowflake, the cloud data platform, announced further advancements to their alliance with Deloitte, the professional services organization, to deliver businesses a foundation for a modern data strategy. Snowflake empowers organizations with a modern data platform that leverages the power of the cloud to deliver near real-time data insights that scale instantly as business needs evolve.