Security News > 2021 > May
Sierra Wireless launched the next evolution in routers with its new XR Series of multi-network 5G routers. The XR Series delivers the full performance of 5G across any network whether used for mobile applications or primary, temporary, or backup fixed wireless connectivity.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday meant to strengthen U.S. cybersecurity defenses in response to a series of headline-grabbing hacking incidents that highlight how vulnerable the country's public and private sectors are to high-tech spies and criminals operating from half a world away. The order will require all federal agencies to use basic cybersecurity measures, like multi-factor authentication, and require new security standards for software makers that contract with the federal government.
President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to modernize the country's defenses against cyberattacks and give more timely access to information necessary for law enforcement to conduct investigations. This executive order follows the numerous cyberattacks targeting US interests this year, including the SolarWinds supply chain attacks in December and the more recent DarkSide ransomware attack against the largest US fuel pipeline, Colonial Pipeline.
The new capabilities will help businesses return employees to the workplace and navigate the realities of the new era of work, including space, reservation and visitor management. Of the organizations using these apps, more than 45% are using the Employee Health Screening app to help ensure employees' health and safety is a top priority and more than 40% are using Workplace Safety Management to allow employees to reserve desks using self-service tools and help ensure safety with pre-defined safe distancing plans, shift assignments and sanitation schedules.
Cobalt Iron announced that its Compass enterprise software-as-a-service backup platform now enables seamless management of Google Cloud Platform virtual machine snapshots. Through this new capability, Compass users are able to manage backup retentions and schedules for GCP VM snapshots using the Compass Commander GUI, the same interface with which they manage their enterprise backups.
DataRobot announced new enhancements to its enterprise AI platform. Users can also integrate their own custom training code to create entirely new models that instantly work with DataRobot's explainability tools and have a clear path to production via DataRobot MLOps.
HackerOne and SecurityScorecard announced an integrated solution that uses hacker-powered security signals and data as a leading indicator for evaluating corporate and supply chain cyber risk. By seamlessly integrating the HackerOne API into the SecurityScorecard platform, users will now be able to showcase their bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure efforts in their scorecards and gain visibility into how their suppliers and partners are deploying these programs within their own environments.
ChaosSearch announced immediate availability of the ChaosSearch Data Lake Platform in AWS Marketplace. Now, AWS customers can easily consume ChaosSearch's solution directly from AWS Marketplace and within their existing AWS contracts.
Snyk announced its acquisition of FossID, a software composition analysis tool that scans code for open source licenses and vulnerabilities. Based in Sweden, FossID was founded with a mission to give developers a solution that detects all footprints of free and open source software within code bases, from entire components to code snippets and including license obligations and compliance issues.
CircleCI announced the acquisition of release orchestration platform, Vamp. Combining Vamp's release orchestration capabilities with CircleCI's robust CI/CD platform will be transformative for engineering teams amid a growing need for increased change validation in the industry.