Security News > 2021
The Tor Project, the nonprofit developers of the Tor network and Tor Browser, have announced two exciting developments for onion services: affordable DV certificates for v3 onion sites from HARICA, and new, easy onion site setup guides. Onion sites are websites that are only accessible over the Tor network: you can spot them because they end in the TLD.onion.
Data Theorem introduced Cloud Secure, application-aware full stack cloud security product with attack surface management for protecting data in cloud-native apps, API services and serverless cloud functions. As Data Theorem's latest product powered by Analyzer Engine, Cloud Secure is available to identify and remediate potential data breaches found in public cloud services used to power today's modern web and mobile applications.
Elastic announced new features and updates across the Elastic Observability solution in the 7.12 release to accelerate root cause analysis and enable unified monitoring. Expanded capabilities include Elastic APM correlations, autoscaling, and support for ARM processor-based infrastructure.
SonicWall announced the expansion of its threat protection offerings with the NSa 3700, a multi-gigabit security appliance designed to thwart attacks targeting government agencies, retail, K-12, higher education and enterprises. Powered by SonicOS 7.0, the new SonicWall NSa 3700 firewall delivers a modern UX/UI, advanced security controls, plus critical networking and management capabilities to increase visibility and help defend against today's increasingly targeted attacks.
The new features are designed to enable users to uncover insights and drive action with their data through the power of search. The frozen tier decouples storage from compute, allowing customers to retain and search their data at a fraction of the cost while also reducing the number of dedicated resources needed for search.
Samsung announced that it has expanded its DDR5 DRAM memory portfolio with the 512GB DDR5 module based on High-K Metal Gate process technology. "Samsung is the only semiconductor company with logic and memory capabilities and the expertise to incorporate HKMG logic technology into memory product development," said Young-Soo Sohn, Vice President of the DRAM Memory Planning/Enabling Group at Samsung Electronics.
"SMART Modular has expanded its DuraFlash ME2 SATA SSD product family with the addition of M.2 2242 SATA, mSATA and Slim SATA that complement the current M.2 2280 and 2.5" SSD form factors in SMART's DuraFlash portfolio. The new ME2 SATA SSD form factors are ideal for embedded computing, transportation, medical and industrial applications that require either smaller or legacy SSD form factors.
cPacket Networks announced a new addition to its cStor series packet capture appliances in support of the latest data center consolidation, 100Gbps migration, and cyber security requirements. The new cStor 100 appliance raises the bar for the industry by setting the new standard for capturing, storing, and analyzing the network packet data at up to 100Gbps speed with advanced analytics.
Amazon Web Services and Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, a new managed service available via the AWS Console that makes it easier for Red Hat OpenShift customers to build, scale, and manage containerized applications on AWS. With ROSA, customers can enjoy more simplified Kubernetes cluster creation using the familiar Red Hat OpenShift console, features, and tooling without the burden of manually scaling and managing the underlying infrastructure. ROSA also enables customers to access Red Hat OpenShift with billing and support directly through AWS, delivering the simplicity of a single-vendor experience to customers running Red Hat OpenShift on AWS. There are no up-front investments required to use ROSA, and customers pay only for the container clusters and nodes used.
Acronis announced the integration of its cyber protection solution, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, with the Kaseya VSA platform. "As a channel-centric partner, we created Acronis Cyber Protect to empower service providers with comprehensive cyber protection that easily integrates with the tools they already use so they can protect more clients and more workloads per employee," said Pat Hurley, Acronis Vice President and General Manager, Americas.