Security News > 2021
DNSFilter announces Insights Reporting: intuitive DNS reporting for powerful network insights. After doubling company size in 2020, DNSFilter has taken customer feedback and turned it into action with Insights Reporting - a new and improved dashboard for real-time monitoring and investigation.
InfluxData announced the general availability of InfluxDB Notebooks, a new capability that improves communication for software development teams, ultimately enhancing productivity within InfluxDB Cloud. InfluxDB Notebooks is the first of the company's new capabilities designed to make it easier for developers to collaborate around time series data within the platform.
Virsec announced the release of the Virsec Security Platform 2.0, a powerful solution for container workload protection with runtime visibility and zero-dwell-time defense throughout running container images, and including binaries, libraries, interpreted code and memory. Traditional approaches to security and risk management often fall short, failing to consider containers inherently insecure and lacking the means to continuously and automatically monitor runtime data flow and code execution throughout workloads to stop exploits early to prevent dangerous attacks from materializing.
D-Link released their new lineup of Vigilance solutions including a network video recorder and six outdoor surveillance cameras. DCS-4712E Vigilance 2 megapixel h.265 outdoor bullet camera.
Styra announced new compliance packs for its Declarative Authorization Service, which include MITRE ATT&CK Matrix for enterprise covering cloud-based techniques, and CIS Kubernetes Benchmarks, to ease collaboration between security and DevOps teams. These two new turnkey compliance packs consist of best practices from the OPA community, and are the latest additions to the Styra compliance pack library, which includes PCI DSS 3.2, Admission Control Best Practices and Kubernetes Pod Security Policies.
LinkSquares announced new features to help legal teams identify key insights from specific terms and clauses across all contracts and track strategic initiatives of importance to the business. LinkSquares Finalize customers will also gain new capabilities for DocuSign and a customized, native application for Salesforce that will simplify contract creation and approvals, and dramatically decrease the time-to-value for the digital transformation of legal teams.
The Linux Foundation announced Linux Foundation Research, a new division that will broaden the understanding of open source projects, ecosystem dynamics, and impact, with never before seen insights on the efficacy of open source collaboration as a means to solve many of the world's pressing problems. Through a series of research projects and related content, Linux Foundation Research will leverage the Linux Foundation's vast repository of data, tools, and communities across industry verticals and technology horizontals.
"Russia's pattern of malign behaviour around the world - whether in cyberspace, in election interference or in the aggressive operations of their intelligence services - demonstrates that Russia remains the most acute threat to the U.K.'s national and collective security," the U.K. government said in a statement. To that effect, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has imposed sweeping sanctions against Russia for "Undermining the conduct of free and fair elections and democratic institutions" in the U.S. and for its role in facilitating the sprawling SolarWinds hack, while also barring six technology companies in the country that provide support to the cyber program run by Russian Intelligence Services.
CloudMoyo and Terracon announce the completion of a data engineering initiative with the goal of modernizing the BI platform. "Terracon's vision is to empower its employees with an intuitive self-service data framework that allows them to utilize analytics and data science applications," said Terracon Chief Information Officer, Jason Kephart.
Vapor IO and VMware announced the Open Grid Alliance, an industry alliance that will define and accelerate the Open Grid, an evolutionary rearchitecting of the internet. "The internet was built from the core out. Now we need to rebuild it from the edge in," said Cole Crawford, founder and CEO of edge infrastructure company Vapor IO. "The alliance will accelerate a decades-long journey of innovation at all levels of the stack, from fiber optics to workload automation. We want to align thought leaders, technologies and investments to bring forth applications that simply cannot be delivered on the internet we have today."