Security News

McAfee and Atlassian come together to accelerate BornSecure cloud capabilities
2020-05-11 23:00

As a result of this collaboration, Atlassian customers can now leverage the power of McAfee MVISON Cloud to apply their security policies to their use of Atlassian services. The need for solutions that are designed to secure the cloud are further validated within a recent McAfee report that found the average enterprise organization uses 1,400 different cloud services.

SecureTrust launches cloud-based PCI compliance and risk mitigation platform
2020-05-11 02:30

SecureTrust, a division of Trustwave, announced SecureTrust PCI Manager, a cloud-based platform delivering Payment Card Industry compliance validation and enhanced risk mitigation for acquiring banks and merchant service providers. "SecureTrust PCI Manager helps our merchants achieve PCI compliance through a process that drives accuracy and is less time consuming, giving our merchants more time to focus on growing their business and enhancing the customer experience," stated Robyn Mitchell, chief compliance officer at North American Bancard.

IBM Cloud clients now have full access to Alert Logic’s MDR capabilities
2020-05-10 23:00

Alert Logic announced that organizations relying on IBM Cloud services now have full access to Alert Logic's comprehensive managed detection and response capabilities. The company uses the Alert Logic MDR solution for the security layer of its IBM Cloud deployment.

Cloud Security Company Ermetic Emerges From Stealth Mode
2020-05-08 15:49

Cloud security company Ermetic emerged from stealth mode this week with a platform that automates detection and remediation of identity and access-based risks. The company's analytics-based platform, which is available immediately, is designed to automatically discover all identities in the cloud, and analyzes policies and permissions in an effort to identify and remediate access risks.

Podcast: Shifting Cloud Security Left With Infrastructure-as-Code
2020-05-08 13:00

Companies are increasingly dealing with a slew of security and compliance issues across cloud services and containers - from AWS to Azure to Google Cloud. Infrastructure-as-Code security capabilities can help companies shift their cloud security "Left" to improve developer productivity, avoid misconfigurations and prevent policy violations.

Ermetic unveils analytics-based solution that prevents cloud data breaches
2020-05-08 02:00

Ermetic, the cloud access risk security company, emerged from stealth mode and announced an analytics-based solution that prevents cloud data breaches by automating the detection and remediation of identity and access risks in Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service offerings from Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Analyze all access activity to detect and alert on privilege escalation, suspicious access and data deletion indicative of credential theft or abuse.

Confluent launches elastic scaling for Apache Kafka, bringing cloud capabilities to event streaming
2020-05-08 00:00

Confluent, the event streaming platform pioneer, announced the launch of elastic scaling for Apache Kafka. "Elasticity is a fundamental property of cloud data systems and our first step in Project Metamorphosis is bringing elastic scaling to Kafka and it's ecosystem in Confluent Cloud," said Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO, Confluent.

Ermetic unveils analytics-based solution that prevents cloud data breaches
2020-05-07 02:00

Ermetic, the cloud access risk security company, emerged from stealth mode and announced an analytics-based solution that prevents cloud data breaches by automating the detection and remediation...

CloudBees extends users’ ability to leverage feature flag technology on-premise and in the cloud
2020-05-07 01:00

CloudBees, the enterprise software delivery company, announced a new release of CloudBees Feature Flags that enables developers to manage production deployments of new functionality in a controlled manner with an on-premise feature manager. The new offering strengthens CloudBees' leadership in the continuous integration/continuous delivery space by extending users' ability to leverage feature flag technology in both on-premise and cloud environments.

SAP Alerts Customers of Vulnerabilities in Cloud Products
2020-05-06 09:19

SAP this week revealed that it is notifying customers of a series of security issues that it has identified in its cloud products. The Germany-based enterprise software maker said it discovered that some of its cloud products "Do not meet one or several contractually agreed or statutory IT security standards at present."