Security News > 2021 > May

With the Splunk Observability Cloud, IT and DevOps teams can get all their answers in a unified interface with metrics, traces and logs - all data collected in real-time, without sampling and at any scale. "The Splunk Observability Cloud helps IT and DevOps teams conquer complexity and accelerate cloud transformation for their organizations."

RMS announced new innovations to ExposureIQ on the Risk Intelligence platform, including real-time catastrophe event visualizations and more powerful reporting. The application provides access to exposure information which leverages events and footprints from RMS Event Response and RMS's unique HWind real-time forecasting capabilities, to help gain a quicker and more accurate assessment of potential losses before, during, and after an event.

Cequence Security announced the release of API Sentinel 2.0, adding powerful features that will help organizations strengthen their runtime API protections by "Shielding the right" - a necessary step that is often minimized while implementing "Shift left" DevOps initiatives. Encouraging security collaboration: A broad set of APIs facilitates collaborative efforts between development and security teams by identifying critical security gaps that require remediation, while reducing the administrative overhead so they can spend more time innovating.

IBM unveiled a breakthrough in semiconductor design and process with the development of the world's first chip announced with 2 nanometer nanosheet technology. IBM's new 2 nm chip technology helps advance the state-of-the-art in the semiconductor industry, addressing this growing demand.

Bosch has introduced the new Autodome IP starlight 5100i IR moving camera with a new 1/1.8 inch sensor offering 4-megapixel resolution and 30x optical zoom. The Autodome IP starlight 5100i IR, designed for outdoors, includes an automatic rain-sensing wiper to maintain clear images during wet conditions, is weatherized with an IP66 rating, and is vandal resistant with IK10 housing.

Google has marked World Password Day by declaring "Passwords are the single biggest threat to your online security," and announcing plans to automatically add multi-step authentication to its users' accounts. A mere eight years after Intel began promoting World Password Day as a way to raise awareness about the importance of strong passwords, Google is ready to wipe them from memory.

Thales and Senetas have collaborated to launch the world's first quantum resistant network encryption solution, capable of protecting customer data against future quantum attacks. The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology is currently selecting finalists amongst the quantum safe encryption algorithms being developed.

Building on the seamlessly integrated experience of Box and Webex, the two companies are introducing a new integration which will enable users to connect a Box folder of their choice within Webex messaging, and any content shared in the space will be securely added to the same Box folder. "We are thrilled to expand our partnership with Cisco as we continue to advance secure work in the Content Cloud," said Aaron Levie, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Box.

Ramp eCDN is one of the only Microsoft partners to offer all three types of eCDN technologies as a unified solution for unparallel flexibility. By utilizing the Ramp eCDN integration, organizations set up on Microsoft Teams can access an arsenal of technologies combined with enterprise level analytics.

In an apparent industry first, the global insurance company AXA said Thursday it will stop writing cyber-insurance policies in France that reimburse customers for extortion payments made to ransomware criminals. Only the U.S. surpassed France last year in damage from ransomware to businesses, hospitals, schools and local governments, according to the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft, estimating France's related overall losses at more than $5.5 billion.