Security News > 2020 > July
Green House Data announced a strategic alignment with Zerto to accelerate digital transformation initiatives centered around hybrid cloud resilience and multi-cloud application migration. Zerto is an industry leading software solution that replaces legacy solutions with a single platform to enable disaster recovery, data protection, and workload mobility across hyperscale clouds, hosted services, and on-premise data centers.
PCI Pal, the global provider of secure payment solutions, announced that its Agent Assist solution is now compliant with key Avaya Contact Center solutions, enabling enterprises to integrate telephone payment security into their existing telephony systems to help achieve PCI DSS compliance for telephone and digital payments. "Compliance testing our Agent Assist application with Avaya Aura Experience Portal helps give customers looking to incorporate a PCI Compliant payment card security solution into their existing telephony and contact center infrastructure a number of benefits," said Darren Gill, Chief Revenue Officer, PCI Pal.
IDology, a GBG company, announced a partnership with Microsoft to integrate its innovative ExpectID identity verification and anti-fraud solution with the Microsoft Azure Active Directory External Identities. ExpectID is now available to Azure Active Directory customers for easy, plug-and-play access to multi-layered global identity verification as a service that elevates trust, facilitates onboarding, increases business identity assurance and shuts down fraud.
Aerospike announced two new partnerships in Japan with SmartScape and ASK Corporation to meet growth and demand for its solutions in the Asia Pacific region. In just two years, Aerospike doubled headcount, customers, and revenues in the APAC region.
ITC Secure, the managed security services provider and specialist advisory firm, and Identity Experts, Microsoft Gold Partner for Security, have formed a strategic partnership to offer fully managed security services built on Microsoft's cutting-edge security stack. Through this partnership Identity Experts will expand its Microsoft SOC services, delivered from ITC's internationally accredited state-of-the-art Security Operations Centre, 24 hours a day.
Fueled by skyrocketing cloud adoption, increasing security threats and the need to optimize IT budgets, Snow started the year with 40% year-over-year growth in total ACV bookings driven by 115% growth in subscription ACV bookings. "As organizations accelerate their reliance on cloud, complex hybrid environments are the new reality for many IT leaders, and Snow sits at the nexus of this transformation," said Vishal Rao, President and Chief Executive Officer at Snow.
Motorola Solutions announced that Jason Winkler has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective July 1, 2020. Winkler succeeds Gino Bonanotte, who has decided to retire from Motorola Solutions on December 31, 2020.
Awake Security announced a cohort of enterprise and public sector leaders that have joined its advisory board. The multidisciplinary team comprises experts from across the security industry, including Richard Clarke, a leading global expert on national and cyber security; Malcolm Harkins, former chief security and privacy officer at Intel; Elena Kvochko, former security leader at Bank of America and Barclays; and DJ Patil, former United States chief data scientist.
MemSQL, The Database of Now for operational analytics and cloud-native applications, has named Jordan Tigani as chief product officer. Tigani assumes oversight of MemSQL's engineering and product teams, with the goal of scaling these operations and expanding on the success of MemSQL's cloud products.
The Apache Project's popular Guacamole open-source remote desktop software contained vulns allowing remote attackers to steal login creds and hijack targeted machines, researchers have said. The Apache Foundation has issued patches for Guacamole following Check Point's research, which resulted in two CVEs.