Security News
By bringing StackRox's powerful Kubernetes-native security capabilities to Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat will further its vision to deliver a single, holistic platform that enables users to build, deploy and securely run nearly any application across the entirety of the hybrid cloud. Red Hat has long been a leader in security for enterprise open source solutions, beginning with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and continually evolving to set new standards to secure cloud-native environments.
Maximus and Genesys announced the results of a new survey of federal, state, and local government officials about their cloud deployments. The findings reveal a greater understanding of where agencies are in their cloud adoption journey, how they perceive cloud solutions, and whether they are using FedRAMP solutions in their cloud environments.
UJET announced its integration with Oracle Cloud CX Service and its availability on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a centralized repository of enterprise applications offered by Oracle and Oracle partners.
SingleStore unveiled native support for AWS Glue, expanding its cloud data integration. This enables developers, data engineers, and data scientists to build with SingleStore on Amazon Web Services more easily.
Lacework, a five-year-old cybersecurity company that automates security across enterprise cloud deployments, has reached unicorn status with the closing of a $525 million round of Series D financing. The Silicon Valley company, which automates security across public and private cloud deployments, is now valued north of $1 billion.
The financing will be used to support the company's growth as organizations increasingly recognize iboss as the leading provider of cutting-edge network security through the cloud. Iboss seamlessly enables a consolidation of networking and cutting-edge security into a Secure Access Service Edge model that operates and provides cybersecurity protection in the cloud.
Endpoint security issues equal some of the most challenging today and tomorrow. Budget allocations to cloud security will grow from single-digit to double as companies look to protect 2020 cloud buildouts in the year ahead. A Gartner analysis of 2021 cloud priorities names "Distributed cloud" as a future focus for businesses which will have significant security implications.
Cloud storage provider Wasabi suffered an outage after a domain used for storage endpoints was suspended for hosting malware. Wasabi is a cloud storage provider that competes with solutions like Amazon S3 by offering significantly cheaper services, not charging egress or API fees, and promising a 99.999999999% data durability.
Microsoft says that the end goal of the SolarWinds supply chain compromise was to pivot to the victims' cloud assets after deploying the Sunburst/Solorigate backdoor on their local networks. As the Microsoft 365 Defender Team explains, after infiltrating a target's network with the help of the Sunburst backdoor, the attackers' goal is to gain access to the victims' cloud assets.
Chris DeRamus: Providing a platform that secures cloud data through automation has resulted in companies becoming enablers of the cloud. Chris DeRamus: Cloud operations will improve and become more secure once automation is implemented early on in the cloud development lifecycle, significantly decreasing the potential for human error.