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Lucidum launched with $4 million in seed funding from GGV Capital and Silicon Valley CISO Investments. Lucidum is founded by former security and technology leaders at Splunk and backed by nearly two dozen current or former security and technology leaders to solve the ubiquitous and fundamental challenge of asset discovery and visibility that's preventing enterprises from efficiently managing, securing, and transforming technology.
An APT group is starting fires with a new Android malware loader, which uses a legitimate Google messaging service to bypass detection. The malware, dubbed "Firestarter," is used by an APT threat group called "DoNot." DoNot uses Firebase Cloud Messaging, which is a cross-platform cloud solution for messages and notifications for Android, iOS and web applications.
Cloud storage is just that - you've stored your data in the cloud. In its most rudimentary form, a traditional cloud backup essentially makes a copy of cloud data to support business continuity and disaster recovery initiatives.
Applications Software Technology announced the version 3.0 release of AST's automated Testing-as-a-Service, powered by the unique and proprietary AST Autonomous Cloud Tester tool. The latest series of enhancements enables organizations to further accelerate their release, patch, and upgrade test cycles across the full breadth of Oracle Cloud applications.
WekaIO announced a transformative cloud-native storage solution underpinned by the world's fastest file system, WekaFS, that unifies and simplifies the data pipeline for performance-intensive workloads and accelerated DataOps. Weka has developed reference architectures with leading object storage technology providers, like Amazon Web Services, Cloudian, IBM, Seagate, Quantum, Scality, and others in Weka's Technology Alliance Program, to deliver cost-efficient, cloud-native data storage solutions at any scale.
AttackIQ announced its integration between the Microsoft Azure Sentinel cloud-native security information and event manager platform and the AttackIQ Security Optimization Platform. "We're delighted to announce AttackIQ's integration with Microsoft Azure Sentinel, and the opportunity to enable Azure Sentinel users to test and validate their detection pipeline and ultimately fine-tune security processes across their organization," said Dariush Afshar, VP of Platform & Business Development, AttackIQ. "With our integration with Azure Sentinel, Microsoft customers now have another powerful tool for optimizing their security investments, whether that be their Microsoft 365 Defender investments like Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, or third-party security products - such as nextgen firewall - that feed Azure Sentinel."
Catalogic Software announced that it is bringing its enterprise data protection expertise to Kubernetes and cloud native applications and that the company added direct offload to cloud from storage arrays to its flagship ECX copy data management solution. The company continued its strong focus on storage vendor partnerships with HPE, IBM, NetApp and Pure Storage and has maintained its business plan and strategic initiatives for 2020 in the face of the economic and social challenges driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Its true cloud technology puts Eagle Eye in a unique position to instantly deploy new analytics breakthroughs. Dean Drako's track record, proven with Eagle Eye and previously as founder of Barracuda Networks, speaks for itself." Eagle Eye Networks Cloud VMS. The Eagle Eye Cloud Video Management System is a smart cloud video surveillance solution, purpose-built to help businesses improve safety, security, operations, and customer service while saving money.
Confluera announced Confluera 2.0 which includes new features and capabilities that will address evolving customer needs as they battle cyberattack amid the current volatile security environment. Confluera XDR delivers a purpose-built cloud workload detection and response solution with the unique ability to deterministically track threats progressing through the environment.
With Western Digital SMR HDDs serving as the storage foundation for its custom-built, multi-exabyte storage platforms, Dropbox continues its strategic path, taking advantage of the highest storage densities with the lowest TCO without sacrificing data durability and availability for its 600 million+ online customers. "We've been working with Western Digital for many years, and throughout several phases of our storage platform development," said Andrew Fong, vice president of engineering, Dropbox.