Security News > 2021
Thales announces a new data protection capability for Microsoft customers to benefit from the power of the full range of Microsoft 365 applications while protecting sensitive data in the cloud and meeting major data privacy regulations and requirements. Designed for companies that operate in highly-regulated sectors such as financial services and healthcare, they can now leverage Thales Luna Hardware Security Modules with Double Key Encryption for Microsoft 365 and comply with regulations such as the EU GDPR, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and the recommendations from the European Data Protection Board following the Schrems II ruling.
Apple may be changing the way it delivers security patches to its devices running iOS and iPadOS mobile operating systems. According to code spotted in iOS 14.5, the iPhone maker is reportedly working on a method for delivering security fixes independently of other OS updates.
FireEye unveiled two new insider threat security services from Mandiant. The new services help organizations establish or scale up insider threat programs and are designed to provide ongoing protection against rapidly evolving and dynamic malicious activities within organizations.
DH2i announced the general availability of DxEnterprise version 20, engineered to improve the performance and resilience of transaction processing workloads found in financial services, as well as other sectors, running on top of Microsoft SQL Server. Following the successful launch of DxOdyssey for IoT in October 2020, DH2i took on the challenge of improving cloud-based database transaction processing performance and resiliency as there is a strong correlation between transaction performance/resiliency and profitability, particularly for financial services workloads.
ASUS announced the introduction of a comprehensive server portfolio based on the latest AMD EPYC 7003 series processors. The new ASUS RS720A, RS700A, RS520A and RS500A-E11 series servers offer refreshed designs based on both dual-socket and single-socket AMD EPYC 7003 series processors.
IBM announced a series of new and updated capabilities for developers designed to deliver intelligent application analysis throughout the DevOps pipeline, generally available on March 19. To help clients unlock the value of DevOps across the enterprise, and help reduce risk around application modernization, IBM is announcing new IBM Wazi Analyze capabilities to help bring IBM Z into the DevOps pipeline, unlocking uniform, enterprise-wide agile delivery processes and standards with transferable skills for non-Z developers.
This new portfolio of HPE ProLiant servers and HPE Apollo systems uses the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processor to provide foundational compute platforms that deliver unmatched performance, security, automation, and remote management capabilities to support a range of critical workloads that are essential to digital transformation. "HPE is addressing these dynamic market needs every step of the way with high-performing solutions that can scale, secure and efficiently run workloads to speed time-to-value," said Neil MacDonald, senior vice president and general manager, Compute Business Group at HPE. "Through our longtime collaboration and joint engineering with AMD, we are delivering the biggest and broadest portfolio of computing solutions, using the new 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processor, to transform infrastructure and provide the economics, agility and ease of management that is critical to tomorrow's data center needs."
Tufin announced the release of the Policy Change Automation app for Cisco ACI, further advancing Tufin's leadership in security policy automation in Software Defined Networking environments. While automation solutions for ACI avoid manual errors and make change requests more efficient, they must accommodate a wide variety of possible implementations, deploying the right ACI contracts and relevant firewall rule changes.
Netizens who say Google continued to track them around the web even when using Chrome's incognito mode can proceed with their privacy lawsuit against the internet giant, a judge has ruled. Specifically, the judge denied Google's motion to dismiss the class-action-seeking lawsuit, stating: "The court concludes that Google did not notify users that Google engages in the alleged data collection while the user is in private browsing mode."
With this acquisition, SailPoint unites identity security with separation of duties access controls monitoring for an organization's most critical applications, like SAP. This integrated approach addresses the growing risk of over-permissioned, excessive or conflicting access to business-critical systems and the sensitive financial, business and operational data within. "ERP Maestro brings an experienced team with a rich heritage in ERP-focused audit and compliance, coupled with a SaaS access control solution that will help us to extend identity security to wrap in SoD monitoring and access controls for our customers' most critical systems, including SAP and others," said Grady Summers, SailPoint's EVP of Products.