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Trifacta announced a major expansion to its platform to deliver the data engineering cloud. "Trifacta is addressing the needs of modern data workers by providing a collaborative, cloud environment where users of all skill levels can come together to improve data quality and streamline data operations as they on-board, assess, and refine raw data," said Trifacta CEO Adam Wilson.
Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group announces the next-generation Lenovo ThinkSystem servers showcasing a unique balance of performance, security and efficiency - all built on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors and PCIe Gen4. With this new generation of ThinkSystem solutions, Lenovo introduces innovations for real-world workloads including high performance computing, artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation, cloud, virtual desktop infrastructure and advanced analytics.
Yellowbrick Data announced Yellowbrick Manager which gives customers unified control of data warehouses across distributed clouds, and general availability of its new Andromeda optimized instance for customers with data sovereignty or high-performance requirements. The company has added more agile data movement capabilities to help customers more easily integrate Yellowbrick with data lakes built on cloud object stores like Amazon S3. Distributed clouds are an emerging architectural pattern characterized by a mesh of interconnected physical and virtualized infrastructure, forming a best-of-breed, logical cloud managed by a single, unified control plane.
Cisco announced new server solutions supported by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors to bring new performance and security capabilities to customers' hybrid cloud infrastructure. To help technology teams address increasingly complex hybrid cloud environments, Cisco today is introducing Unified Computing System server models with the latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
As part of this partnership, Liquid Web customers can employ the Threat Stack Oversight Intrusion Detection System as an additional layer of security to Liquid Web servers with an advanced Intrusion Detection System. Together, Threat Stack Oversight and Liquid Web will provide customers with real-time monitoring for user, process, network, and file behaviors in critical systems across Linux and Windows servers.
SAP and Onapsis jointly released a cyber threat intelligence report providing actionable information on how malicious threat actors are targeting and potentially exploiting unprotected mission-critical SAP applications. Both companies note that many organizations still have not applied relevant mitigations that have long been provided by SAP. Customers who fail to apply these protective measures and allow unprotected SAP applications to continue to operate put themselves and their business at risk.
The maintainers of the PHP programming language have issued an update regarding the security incident that came to light late last month, stating that the actors may have gotten hold of a user database containing their passwords to make unauthorized changes to the repository. "We no longer believe the git.php.net server has been compromised. However, it is possible that the master.php.net user database leaked," Nikita Popov said in a message posted on its mailing list on April 6.
The CMMC Accreditation Body announced the formation of one of the strongest and most important Industry Advisory Council's ever assembled in cybersecurity. The CMMC-AB IAC mission is to provide a unified voice as representatives of Organizations Seeking Certification to supply key feedback, input and recommendations for implementing CMMC back to the DoD and the CMMC-AB. Chaired by current Treasurer, Yong-Gon Chon, the CMMC-AB IAC is comprised of highly-esteemed thought leaders representing large and small businesses from a wide range of markets within the Defense Industrial Base.
Veracode announced the launch of the Veracode Technology Alliance Program, making it easier for organizations to implement, manage, and scale their software security programs, reducing friction and speeding time-to-market. "Our new TAP program is an important component of our strategy to extend the power of Veracode through a diverse network of strategic partners, technical alliances, and integrations with technology providers across the software supply chain," said Ian McLeod, Chief Product Officer at Veracode.
Code42 announced it has integrated its Incydr data risk detection and response product with Okta Identity Cloud. The integration combines Code42's data-centric strategy to insider risk with Okta's leading approach to identity and access, and provides security buyers with an easier way to build data security environments rooted in Zero Trust.