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Despite many countries planning for a return to physical offices and workspaces, 60% of IT leaders are continuing to increase their overall cloud usage and 91% are changing their cloud strategy as a result of the current economic climate. 60% said their cloud usage continues to increase, indicating that cloud consumption patterns are still in flux even after the initial surge in remote work.
Armorblox, a cloud office security platform that protects inbound and outbound enterprise communications, announced the availability of integrations with Box and Slack to stop socially engineered attacks and data loss across email, messaging, and file-sharing services. In addition to API-based integrations with Office 365, G Suite, and Exchange, these new integrations extend Armorblox capabilities beyond email to prevent targeted attacks and sensitive data disclosures across cloud office applications.
Infosec pros and hackers regularly abuse cloud service providers to conduct reconnaissance and attacks, despite efforts by cloud providers to limit such activity. Of the 75 security professionals and hackers they spoke with as a part of a larger examination of attacker psychology, more than 93 per cent admitted to abusing cloud services to create attack environments and launch attacks.
OpenNebula 5.12 "Firework" is the seventh update release of the OpenNebula 5 series and takes a monumental leap in providing the lightest comprehensive open source management platform to build private, hybrid and edge clouds. Now OpenNebula provides the enterprise engine to administer and provision these serverless resources, offering the security and isolation of traditional VMs with the agility of containers, and permitting the combination of different workloads on the same OpenNebula instance.
CoreSite announced it will offer on-demand connectivity to Oracle Cloud through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure FastConnect on the CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange. CoreSite's cloud-enabled data center campuses now offer low-latency connectivity to each of the Oracle Cloud regions in the United States located in Ashburn, VA and Phoenix, AZ. Oracle customers can harness the power of scalable, low-latency, hybrid architectures at CoreSite to unlock innovation and drive business growth.
As part of the partnership, the companies will migrate SAS' analytical products and industry solutions onto Microsoft Azure as the preferred cloud provider for the SAS Cloud. "Through this partnership, Microsoft and SAS will help our customers accelerate growth and find new ways to drive innovation with a broad set of SAS Analytics offerings on Microsoft Azure," said Scott Guthrie, Microsoft Executive Vice President of Cloud and AI. "SAS, with its recognized expertise in analytics, data science and machine learning, is a strategic partner for Microsoft, and together we will help customers across dozens of industries and horizontals address their most critical and complex analytical challenges."
IBM has announced a definitive agreement to acquire cloud cybersecurity posture management solutions provider Spanugo. Spanugo's technology allows organizations to demonstrate compliance in real time, while also helping them continuously improve their cloud security to ensure that attacks can be repelled.
They came from organizations of all sizes and across a broad range of sectors, in EMEA, APAC and the US. Secure SD-WAN fully integrated into public cloud is the solution of choice 23% of respondents have already deployed SD-WAN, with another 51% either in the process of deploying or expecting to deploy within the next 12 months. SD-WAN is being used by more than half of those who have added security to their public cloud.
Accela announced a new program designed to help state and local governments move from on-premise systems to the cloud as seamlessly as possible with rapid migration, minimal operational impact, and a configurable platform. "Accela's new SaaS migration program accelerates agencies' ability to transcend traditional IT systems and realize the potential of the cloud's efficiency, scalability, and resiliency. By moving services to the cloud, governments can modernize their operations, uplevel service delivery and redefine citizen engagement, rather than spend time maintaining servers, networks, and virtual machines," said Renato Mascardo, Chief Technology Officer at Accela.
Cloud environment threats and challenges Complex ownership: 66% of respondents surveyed say they rely on cloud providers for baseline security; yet perception of security ownership varied greatly across specific cloud platforms and applications. "The cloud holds enormous potential for business efficiency and innovation, but also can create a 'wild west' of broader and more distributed environments for organizations to manage and secure," said Abhijit Chakravorty, Cloud Security Competency Leader, IBM Security Services.