Security News
BBVA and Google Cloud announced a new strategic partnership to transform the bank's security strategy by optimizing and improving its security infrastructure. BBVA is the first bank in Europe to deploy Chronicle, Google Cloud's security analytics platform that allows teams to store and analyze all their security data in one place to detect and investigate threats at scale.
There's an increased adoption of managed infrastructure services and the emergence of new cloud watering hole attacks, Accurics reveals. Cloud infrastructure risks Kubernetes users who try to implement role-based access controls often fail to define roles at the proper granularity.
Unitas Global announces the availability of Unitas Reach, the first global software defined network to offer automated ubiquitous edge access to any cloud location. Unitas Reach is the industry's first purpose-built network connecting cloud providers, carrier-neutral data centers, SaaS applications, and edge access networks to form a multi-service global interconnection fabric.
Nutanix announced additional ransomware protections in the company's cloud platform. A recent Gartner report shared that, "In 2020, in particular, there have been swift changes to threats with increased remote work and targeted malware campaigns that take advantage of worldwide events, such as COVID-19. Ransomware has evolved beyond the commodity, widespread attacks intended to infect a single endpoint to include more advanced techniques, such as fileless malware and data exfiltration []. These new strains of ransomware make prevention and planning more important than ever to prevent ransomware attacks."
Mindtree announced that it has achieved the Application Development Partner Specialization in the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program. The Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program is designed to provide Google Cloud customers with qualified partners that have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven success in specialized solution and service areas.
A new analysis of security risks in cloud deployments found that companies are facing an increased risk of more advanced attacks and struggling to control managed infrastructure options. The Cloud Cyber Resilience Report from Accurics describes how insecure defaults and identity management are causing new problems.
Still, you may have told yourself, 365 means they'll be as productive as ever - if not more so - and, well, Microsoft knows all about enterprise security, so they'll be fine. It's become clear that while cloud providers can be held to account when it comes to service availability, other issues such as security and data integrity are not really their problem, but rather yours.
Calico Cloud gives DevOps, DevSecOps, and Site Reliability Engineering teams a single pane of glass across multi-cluster and multi-cloud Kubernetes environments to deploy a standard set of egress access controls, enforce security policies for compliance, and observe and troubleshoot applications. Calico Cloud is Kubernetes-native and provides native extensions to enable security and observability as code for easy and consistent enforcement across Kubernetes distributions, multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
Protegrity launched the Protegrity Partner Network, which empowers technology organizations, systems integrators, and value-added resellers to seamlessly deliver Protegrity's advanced data-protection solutions to joint customers, supporting privacy, advanced analytics, AI and machine learning, and cloud initiatives. The Protegrity Partner Network gives partners the necessary resources and certifications to enable their customers to unlock the potential of secure data, creating more opportunities for innovation and digital transformation, and improving customer experiences.
With this acquisition, Zadara obtains NeoKarm technology including the former Stratoscale software IP, which enables MSPs to offer an on-demand private cloud built and fully-managed by Zadara. "We believe MSPs of any size should be able to offer their own competitive on-demand private cloud without the large upfront CapEx investment traditionally required," said Nelson Nahum, CEO, Zadara.