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Kingston Digital, the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, announced the availability of DC1000M, a new U.2 data center NVMe PCIe SSD. DC1000M is designed to support a wide range of data-intensive enterprise workloads, including Cloud computing, web hosting, high-performance computing, virtual infrastructures, artificial intelligence and deep learning applications. DC1000M joins the recently released DC1000B NVMe boot drive, the VMware Ready DC500 series SATA SSDs and DC450R to form the most complete range of superior enterprise-class data center storage solutions in the market.

We decided to gather some feedback from the attendees, journalists, and security experts involved in RSA 2020 to understand the most recent cybersecurity trends after this milestone event. Qualys Qualys, a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, unveiled its new flagship product VMDR at RSA 2020.

SnapLogic, provider of the #1 Intelligent Integration Platform, and system integration and data analytics services firm Rojo Consultancy, announced an expanded partnership and new pre-built intelligent connectors to make it faster and easier to integrate SAP applications and data sources with other third party systems. New Snaps for SAP SuccessFactors and SAP S/4HANA, together with expanded joint go-to-market plans between SnapLogic and Rojo, will help customers seamlessly connect their SAP and third party systems in order to automate business processes and improve decision making.

"As the eyes of the world turn to Japan for major international events, Trend Micro continues to do what it has always done best - building global partnerships that will help to secure the connected world we all live in," said Akihiro Omikawa, executive vice president for Trend Micro. The first agreement is with the Japan International Cooperation Agency, a government agency responsible for providing overseas development aid and nurturing social economic growth in developing nations.

Datto, the leading global provider of cloud-based software and technology solutions delivered through managed service providers, announced that John F. Abbot has joined its executive management team as Chief Financial Officer, effective March 2, 2020. In his role, Abbot will work closely with Datto's senior executive team and its board of directors, driving key processes and systems to enable the business to maintain close touch with MSPs, and he will oversee all global aspects of Datto's financial and accounting operations.

A gastroenterologist has been smacked with a $100,000 HIPAA settlement after an investigation stemming from a 2013 breach report the practice filed related to a business associate dispute. A resolution agreement in the case says OCR initiated a compliance review of Porter's practice following the receipt of a breach report filed by the practice in November 2013.

What is the impact on the individuals and their enterprises? And what should be done to alleviate this stress? Stuart Reed of Nominet analyzes this latest CISO Stress report. How senior management can take the lead on relieving CISO stress.

So it's able to sort of tunnel, it's trying to control via the DNS system, which will get around a lot of IDS's and things that aren't looking for it because traditionally, things aren't looking at that information as being malicious. So it's just a way of getting around any sort of detection controls or many detection controls.

Two Chinese nationals have been indicted by the U.S. Justice Department for allegedly laundering $100 million in cryptocurrency stolen from exchanges by North Korean hackers in 2018, according to a federal indictment unsealed Monday. The North Korean-linked group also apparently has been involved in numerous banking thefts, including the 2016 Bangladesh Bank heist, and it has recently begun targeting cryptocurrency exchanges to help illegally fund the government, U.S. authorities say.

In 2019, the Global Cyber Alliance debuted its toolkit to help small and midsized organizations bolster cybersecurity. How has the toolkit been received and refined? Phil Reitinger, president of GCA, discusses progress.