Security News > 2021 > May

Many workers are worn out and ready to make up for lost vacation time, a research from Robert Half suggests. Professionals more burned out today than a year ago.

Securiti announced Securiti for Workday which enables Sensitive Data Intelligence driven Security, PrivacyOps, Governance and Compliance for sensitive employee and financial data in Workday. Securiti's platform uniquely integrates Sensitive Data Intelligence with Data Security and PrivacyOps automation to allow organizations to address security and privacy requirements accurately and cost-effectively.

AtScale announced the launch of AtScale CloudStart for building powerful analytics infrastructure on cloud data platforms. CloudStart provides customers a way to start with a smaller semantic layer investment aligned with entry points for cloud data platforms with the ability to scale seamlessly with your analytics infrastructure.

Stacklet announced Stacklet Platform, which allows cloud engineering and security teams to easily understand, codify, and automate cloud governance for a frictionless experience for development teams and rapid cloud adoption. Many organizations identify governance as a key inhibitor to their cloud adoption journey, and a lack of visibility into cloud infrastructure introduces cloud security risks which presents a key challenge for customers as they move into the public cloud.

Elastic announces new features and updates across the Elastic Observability solution in its 7.13 release to streamline workflows in Microsoft Azure, simplify data integrations, and accelerate root cause analysis. Expanded capabilities include native integration in the Microsoft Azure console, the beta release of Fleet Server, and new troubleshooting views in Elastic APM. Elastic is announcing an enhanced partnership with Microsoft, enabling users to find and deploy Elastic directly from the Azure console and natively integrate observability and security data from Azure services.

JFrog announced Private Distribution Network at its annual DevOps user conference swampUP. A new innovative capability of JFrog Distribution, part of the JFrog DevOps Platform, Private Distribution Network enables enterprises to easily set up and manage a secure, massively scalable hybrid distribution network for software updates. Private Distribution Network provides two integrated network utilization and acceleration technologies - HTTP-based, secure P2P and CDN - that can be rolled out across large-scale mixed-infrastructure and multi-tiered, customizable network topologies, and are managed as-a-service with usage-based pricing.

Blue Hexagon offers agentless cloud-native AI security at runtime for Google Cloud. "With the rise of cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service driving rapid enterprise workload migration to the cloud, new challenges with security of cloud compute and network are ever emerging," said Nayeem Islam, CEO and Co-founder, Blue Hexagon.

Delivered through an elegant single pane of glass and deployed in a matter of hours, IntSights' External Threat Protection Suite provides enterprise-grade external threat intelligence and IOC management capabilities enabling security teams to defend against a rapidly evolving threat landscape while significantly reducing their workload. Centralizing the collection, management, and integration of dozens of threat intelligence sources in the same platform, security teams can streamline investigation and proactively block threats with IntSights' built-in TIP capabilities. "The enhancements we continue to make to the IntSights ETP allow these teams to significantly streamline threat investigations and proactively block threats from within their connected security devices. Our mission is to empower every organization with threat intelligence, and you just can't utilize TI successfully without built-in TIP capabilities."

KubeSphere Community announced the general availability of KubeSphere 3.1.0. KubeSphere, as an app-centric distributed operating system running on top of Kubernetes, has further expanded its portfolio to deliver more robust experiences for users across the globe, enabling DevOps teams to run Kubernetes workloads where and when they want with ease and security.

Versa Networks announced its integration with Google Cloud Network Connectivity Center, allowing for secure and reliable connectivity to cloud workloads and on-premises resources in an automated, dynamic approach that reduces total costs of ownership. The integration between Versa SASE and Google Cloud represents continued development in security, SD-WAN, bandwidth management, and high availability differentiation and innovation to deliver the most consistent and high-performing user experience for secure access to applications anywhere in the world.