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Microsoft is believed to be working on a new virtualized desktop experience called 'Cloud PC' to help administrators deploy and manage Windows 10 PCs in the cloud via web browser, mobile app or another PC. Cloud PC will also allow Microsoft to handle your organization's device configuration by applying updates security improvements regularly, and offer managed support. Cloud PC is based on Azure and Windows Virtual Desktop and it won't replace any version of Windows.
Today, more than half of healthcare respondents have increased their public cloud and hybrid cloud use, and 46% have invested more in private cloud environments in an effort to quickly provide new work-from-home employees with access to IT resources. Healthcare hybrid cloud deployments: Key findings The future of healthcare is dependent on decommissioning of legacy architecture: Currently, more healthcare companies run exclusively traditional, non-cloud-enabled datacenters than any other industry, compared to 18% globally.
Secure-IC announces the availability of its protection technologies in the Cloud. Starting first with Xilinx App Store launched on December 9th, a new service that allows millions of Xilinx customers to securely find and use third-party IPs in the Cloud, and powered by Accelize's Digital Rights Management technology, Secure-IC is now able to offer its clients the possibility to test protection technologies in the Cloud before deploying them.
That's according to researchers from Checkmarx, which just published its 2021 Software Security Predictions report. "I expect to see malicious attackers exploit developers' missteps in these flexible environments. To combat this, we will see a major concentration around cloud security training, IaC best practices, and additional spend allocated toward software and application security to support the demand of a remote workforce and more complex software ecosystems," he added.
An advisory from the U.S. National Security Agency provides Microsoft Azure administrators guidance to detect and protect against threat actors looking to access resources in the cloud by forging authentication information. The two tactics, techniques, and procedures discussed in NSA's advisory have been in use since at least 2017 and refer to forging Security Assertion Markup Language tokens for single sign-on authentication to other service providers.
The cloud ITSM market size is expected to grow from $4.7 billion in 2020 to $12.2 billion by 2025, at a CAGR of 21.2% during the forecast period, according to MarketsandMarkets. Increased cloud adoption of cloud among SMEs is driving the cloud ITSM market.
CloudPassage announced the addition of Google Cloud Platform support for Halo Cloud Secure, the cloud security posture management service of the Halo cloud security platform. With this release, Halo Cloud Secure automatically discovers and inventories cloud assets and resources hosted on GCP, determines their security posture, alerts users to misconfigurations and exposures, and provides best-practice remediation advice.
CloudKnox Security extended support for serverless functions on Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Together, the support for serverless functions and ServiceNow integration underscore CloudKnox's market lead with the most comprehensive support offering in the cloud infrastructure entitlement management segment.
Asigra software version 14.2 support for the Microsoft software suite empowers solution providers to significantly lower cybersecurity threats targeting backup repositories with MS Office 365 data. Asigra Cloud Backup with Deep MFA allows users to easily schedule the creation of point-in-time backup copies of mailboxes and corporate data residing in Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online, Office 365 Groups, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business - with no limitations on data volumes or number of mailboxes.
Amazon Web Services announced that Twitter has selected AWS to provide global cloud infrastructure to deliver Twitter timelines. Millions of people and organizations use Twitter to share and react to what's happening and what people are talking about right now, and Twitter will leverage AWS infrastructure and services to continue improving performance and security for them.