Security News
InfiniteIO, which offers the world's fastest metadata platform to accelerate application performance and reduce cloud latency, announced a new partnership with Google Cloud to significantly reduce the cost of network-attached storage and speed cloud adoption for organizations facing exponential data growth and infrastructure costs. Customers and channel partners can now rapidly identify and move massive amounts of infrequently accessed yet invaluable files to Google Cloud Platform to lower total storage costs while keeping all of their files accessible and active to end-users.
Many educational organizations are at risk of data security incidents during the current period of working from home and virtual learning, a Netwrix report reveals. According to the survey, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the majority of educational organizations had weak data security controls.
Cloud services provider Volterra has a new encryption tool to make file sharing via collaborative platforms more secure without using passwords or public-key cryptography. VoltShare encrypts data and files locally to add an extra layer of security to collaboration and cloud storage platforms including Slack, Teams, and Dropbox.
Everyone is having trouble keeping cloud deployments secure, according to a new report from Oracle and KPMG. The "Threat Report 2020: Addressing Security Configurations Amidst a State of Constant Change" found that 92% of IT professionals do not think their organization is well prepared to secure public cloud services. Misconfigured cloud services are prevalent, problematic, and the top cloud security priority.
Myles Hosford, a principal of security architecture at Amazon Web Services, gave a presentation about best practices for AWS security. Hosford shared these three resources as a way to improve your understanding of how to secure AWS cloud deployments.
FireEye, the intelligence-led security company, announced the availability of FireEye Cloudvisory, a control center for cloud security management across any security environment - private, public and hybrid. Fully integrated into the broader FireEye cloud security portfolio, Cloudvisory now offers customers instant deployment across their cloud infrastructures, and further capabilities in security analytics through FireEye Helix and advanced threat detection through FireEye Detection On Demand.
DataStax announced the general availability of DataStax Astra, a database-as-a-service for Apache Cassandra applications, simplifying cloud-native Cassandra application development. On Google Cloud, Astra deploys and manages enterprise clusters powered by Cassandra directly on top of Google Cloud's Platform infrastructure, so that data sits in the same Google Cloud global infrastructure as applications.
By continually re-examining the environment and removing unused permissions, an organization can achieve least privilege in the cloud over time. The effort required to determine the precise permissions necessary for each application in a complex cloud environment can be both labor intensive and prohibitively expensive.
N4Stack, the division of Node4 which brings together the database, DevOps and cloud practices to provide a range of enterprise consulting and managed services, has announced the launch of Azure Service Tiles. Driven by customer demand, Node4's Azure Service Tiles are designed to overcome the challenges customers face when adopting Azure, making the process easier and more cohesive.
MariaDB announced the immediate availability of MariaDB SkySQL through the Google Cloud Marketplace. "The addition of SkySQL in the Google Cloud Marketplace allows joint customers to build predictability into their cloud modernization budgets while ensuring mission-critical workloads are built and run on a best-of-breed integrated platform. This ultimately brings more choice and value for our customers."