Security News

Trend Micro has demonstrated the strength of its collaboration with AWS since 2012 with a deep understanding of customer use cases and by integrating with leading AWS security services at launch. Most recently, Trend Micro Cloud One offerings have been natively integrated with AWS Control Tower and AWS Systems Manager Distributor.

The Ethernet Alliance announced the launch of an industry focus around Operational Technology networks found in building and industrial automation. With development of Single-Pair Ethernet creating new opportunities for solving challenges in OT networks, the Ethernet Alliance is seeking to connect with more expertise in the building- and industrial-automation industries.

DigiCert Automation Gateway launches with integration into DigiCert CertCentral in Q4. This new automation approach is designed to accelerate the adoption of automated certificate issuance, renewal, reissuance and revocation by tackling some of the common concerns with existing offerings. Automation Gateway will provide organizations the confidence to widely deploy automation protocols within their company networks to provide greater agility.

High-severity vulnerabilities found by researchers in Mitsubishi Electric factory automation products can be exploited to remotely attack organizations. According to advisories published last week by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, tens of factory automation products from Mitsubishi Electric are affected by three flaws that can be exploited for privilege escalation, arbitrary code execution and DoS attacks.

Box announced the addition of automated classification to Box Shield on Tuesday. "As people are working from home, security has become one of the top considerations for IT departments. People used to be inside the corporate network, inside of a firewall. Now the perimeter is actually moved to your house. You could be accessing content from your personal device, where as an organization, you might not have the level of security capabilities that device has," said Varun Parmar, chief product officer at Box.

Modern security threats come in many different forms, which is part of the reason why addressing them is so challenging and there is a dire need for security automation. Despite recent advancements, the barriers to adoption for automation software remain high, particularly within the security industry.

Red Hat announced key enhancements to the Ansible Automation portfolio, including the latest version of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and new Red Hat Certified Ansible Content Collections available on Automation Hub. In addition to Ansible Content Collections, the latest version of the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform includes the availability of Ansible Tower 3.7, the introduction of automation services catalog, and updates to Automation Analytics.

PTC and Rockwell Automation announced Factory Insights as a Service, a turnkey cloud solution that enables manufacturers to achieve unprecedented impact, speed, and scale with their digital transformation initiatives. Factory Insights as a Service includes many of the key product components of PTC and Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, including PTC's industry-leading ThingWorx, Kepware, and Vuforia products, optimized for OT data coming from Rockwell Automation's best-in-class automation and information offerings.

The announcement brings together both companies to address the growing worldwide demand for solutions and services in the areas of digital transformation, process digitization, and automation. The partnership supports global users across all digital transformation projects, including the areas of process excellence, ERP transformation, RPA, risk and compliance, and customer excellence.

KIOSK KNECT IoT provides enhanced dashboard features, scalability, and IoT alert campaign automation
KIOSK Information Systems is announcing KNECT IoT, an enhanced remote monitoring application for real-time visibility of an unattended kiosk deployment. "KIOSK president Kim Kenney notes,"The new features within KNECT IoT raises the standards on what customers can expect from their Remote Management System when they deploy digital kiosks throughout their business network and service delivery channels.