Security News > 2021 > May
Calix announced the addition of end-to-end Internet Protocol Version 6 support within the Intelligent Access EDGE solution, enabling broadband service providers to eliminate the high costs and challenges of expanding their networks using IPv4 addresses to meet accelerating subscriber demand. The combination of AXOS and the enhanced E9-2 Intelligent Edge System brings new benefits to BSPs:. Simplified migrations from IPv4 to IPv6: Support for existing IPv4 networks in combination with IPv6 and enable an easy migration to an all-IPv6 network in the future.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced solutions to help organizations advance data monetization by tapping into Gaia-X, an emerging federated data infrastructure supported by more than 300 organizations in Europe and globally. The HPE Solution Framework for Gaia-X was designed for companies, service providers and public organizations that want to get ready to participate in Gaia-X. It supports virtually all capabilities that are required to both provide and consume data and services in a decentralized, federated environment.
GlobalPlatform has expanded its Trusted Execution Environment security certification scheme to enable evaluation of discrete technologies that come together to make up a complete TEE solution. Stakeholders at different stages of the TEE value chain - like silicon, component and OS vendors, or device OEMS - can now certify their individual parts.
This new guide verifies the trustworthiness of each end point, by allowing the integrity of devices and networks within enterprise systems to be measured for the first time. The PC Client Firmware Integrity Measurement specification provides an official definitive guide, derived from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's draft publication SP 800-155, December 2011, to verifying the security status of equipment bought by enterprises.
Exabeam and Pcysys announced a partnership to enable global organizations to defend against the latest incoming, live and ever-changing advanced attack techniques. "The joint technologies enable successful security outcomes through a proactive prescriptive approach that represents a great win for the industry. Together, we ensure that professionals on the front lines defending their organizations are far ahead of today's sophisticated adversaries."
Edge Impulse announced the closing of a $15 million Series A investment round led by Canaan Partners with Acrew Capital, Fika Ventures, Momenta Ventures, and Knollwood Investment Advisory. This funding will support the company's mission to democratize ML for millions of developers and engineers deploying to billions of edge devices.
"Security teams today have to deal with a dizzying array of security tools from CASBs, PAMs, IGAs, CIEMs, SSPMs, and more-and they still lack insight and control over human and machine identities and permissions in cloud platforms and applications," said Art Poghosyan, CEO of Britive. Britive's Dynamic Permissioning Platform takes the complexity and time out of securing identities and permissions across multi-cloud environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Salesforce, ServiceNow and Oracle Cloud.
Empowering the world's essential data infrastructure, Western Digital announced the expansion of the WD Purple family with the WD Purple Pro product line for a new generation of advanced AI-enabled recorders and back-end servers. The new WD Purple Pro line is designed to handle these workloads with optimized storage performance, capacity, workload capability and reliability for a myriad of devices, including AI-enabled network video recorders, video analytics servers, storage arrays and storage/server solutions, including those that perform deep-learning analytics.
IBM announced plans to acquire Waeg to extend IBM's portfolio of Salesforce services and advance IBM's hybrid cloud and AI strategy. "Our partner ecosystem is an important growth channel for Salesforce, and IBM continues to expand their capabilities across the world, most recently with the addition of Waeg," said Tyler Prince, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Alliances and Channels, Salesforce.
Offensive Security announced a new Federal practice area. The company also announced that Keith Peer has joined Offensive Security as Head of Federal to lead its work in the public sector, which already includes the U. S. Intelligence Community, Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard and many other Federal civilian agency clients.