Security News
Virtana announces the momentum of Virtana Platform, with successful customer and partner use cases for its module, Virtana Migrate. The SaaS solution, with strategic partner Presidio, delivered cloud migration efficiency and cost optimization for a national insurance company, accelerating their move to Amazon Web Services by 70%. The Virtana Migrate module within Virtana Platform brought the insight this insurance company needed to rightsize, de-risk, and accelerate their migration.
Amazon Web Services announced the AWS BugBust Challenge, a global competition for developers to collectively eliminate one million software bugs. With just a few clicks, developers from around the world can join the challenge by creating an AWS BugBust event for their organization in the Amazon CodeGuru console-and compete for prizes and prestige by identifying and fixing bugs in their applications.
AWS has set up a competition for its customers' developers to find and fix one million bugs. "Eliminate software errors and save millions of dollars using Amazon CodeGuru, and win prizes and glory in the first annual AWS BugBust Challenge," he declared.
Amazon's AWS subsidiary on Friday announced the acquisition of Wickr, a late-stage startup that sells end-to-end encrypted communications tools. According to VP and Chief Information Security Officer Stephen Schmidt, AWS will be offering Wickr services effective immediately and Wickr customers, channel, and business partners can continue to use Wickr's services as they do today.
Aqua Security announced its participation in the launch of the AWS CloudFormation Public Registry, with a published listing to enable customers to easily discover, seamlessly provision, and scale the Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform into their Amazon Web Services environments. The AWS CloudFormation Public Registry launch expands on the registry and infrastructure-as-code CloudFormation provisioning templates that have been available for AWS services and tools, with a public and searchable registry containing third-party resource types.
Data analytics and cybersecurity platform provider Splunk announced Tuesday Splunk Security Cloud, a cloud-based security operations platform that integrates analytics, automated security operations and threat intelligence. "At Splunk, we believe security is a data problem and data drives better decisions, providing the foundation for security analytics," Sendur Sellakumar, Splunk's chief product officer, said in a press release.
Amazon Web Services announced the general availability of AWS Proton, an application delivery service that makes it easier for customers to provision, deploy, and monitor the microservices that form the basis of modern container and serverless applications. AWS Proton is an application delivery service that helps platform teams provide an easy way for their developers to provision, deploy, and monitor applications when the unit of compute is dynamic, like with containers and serverless.
Privacera announced that its managed SaaS data access governance solution, PrivaceraCloud, is now available in the AWS Marketplace. PrivaceraCloud works with AWS to help enterprises globally accelerate secure cloud data migration from on-premises Hadoop environments to AWS and other leading public cloud providers, while remaining compliant with stringent industry and privacy regulations, such as GDPR, LGPD, CCPA, HIPAA, and more.
Protegrity announced the availability of three Protegrity products in AWS Marketplace: Protegrity Discover, Cloud Protect for Amazon Redshift, and Cloud Protect for Snowflake. With AWS Marketplace availability, Protegrity is making it easier than ever for customers to discover and protect their sensitive data in the cloud.
The new AWS Middle East Region will consist of three Availability Zones and become AWS's second region in the Middle East with the existing AWS Region in Bahrain, giving customers more choice and flexibility to leverage advanced technologies from the world's leading cloud. AWS customers welcomed the news of the AWS Region in UAE, including global customers who will be able to leverage the region to serve new audiences, such as Salesforce, the global customer relationship management leader.