Security News > 2021
AWS customers can now purchase the Obsidian SaaS security solution directly in AWS Marketplace and pay for the service through their integrated AWS bill. Obsidian protects against account compromise, insider threats, access misuse, data leaks, excessive privileges and weak posture in SaaS applications with its cloud detection and response platform.
OPA has demonstrated widespread adoption, an open governance process, feature maturity, and a strong commitment to community, sustainability, and inclusivity to graduate. OPA is an open source, general-purpose policy engine that enables unified, context-aware policy enforcement across the entire stack.
ViON announced a strategic partnership with Cyemptive Technologies in North America to provide a truly secure high performance Enterprise Cloud solution. "ViON has over 40 years of experience helping our customers modernize technology and drive successful outcomes. ViON's experience processing, storing, managing and protecting data in the Federal, State and Local, as well as Commercial markets allows us a unique capability to bring complex solutions to market."
Bitglass announced technical integrations between SD-WAN providers Aruba, 128 Technology, Fortinet, and Silver Peak and its secure access service edge offering; extending market-leading security to traffic stemming from remote locations. With its cloud-native Polyscale Architecture, Bitglass is able to leverage AWS Transit Gateway Connect to integrate with SD-WAN solutions connected to AWS. This enables any organization to integrate its existing SD-WAN fabric with the leading SASE platform from Bitglass.
The company will deepen its initial work with Google and move its offline analytics, data processing, and machine learning workloads to Google's Data Cloud. With this expanded partnership, Twitter is adopting Google's Data Cloud including BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Bigtable and machine learning tools.
Elektra Labs and Carnegie Mellon University researchers announced collaboration on an innovative IoT labeling system for understanding the data rights and security practices of connected health sensors. As part of their collaboration, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab have contributed their research on an IoT Privacy and Security label as a blueprint, while Elektra Labs is incorporating its own published "Tech nutrition label" recommendations as well.
RiskRecon and CyberGRX announced a strategic partnership to provide organizations with a complete, contextual view of their third-party cyber risk posture. New research from RiskRecon and Cyentia Institute reveals that while 79% of firms have a third-party risk management program, only 14% are confident that vendors actually trust third parties' security matches responses from their questionnaires.
Align announced the appointment of John Sarkis as Chief Revenue Officer. John brings 20+ years of experience leading high-performance business lines in various sales initiatives focused on hybrid cloud, security, data center, managed services and cloud solutions.
FireEye announced that Bryan Palma has joined the company as Executive Vice President of FireEye Products. In this role, Palma will lead the FireEye product team to further develop the company's industry-leading product portfolio and optimize SaaS security controls offerings to more effectively protect modern enterprise environments.
ACI Worldwide announced that Amanda Mickleburgh, product director for Merchant Fraud, has been appointed to the European Advisory Board of the Merchant Risk Council, a global membership organization connecting eCommerce fraud and payments professionals. Since joining ACI in 2007, she has held various strategic roles, with a focus on eCommerce fraud prevention.