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Attivo Networks, the award-winning leader in deception for cybersecurity threat detection, announced the availability of its ADSecure solution for Google Cloud's Managed Service for Microsoft Active Directory. The Google Cloud team has reviewed the Attivo solution that operates and reduces the risk of attack escalation for organizations running Active Directory with Google's managed service.
Splunk, provider of the Data-to-Everything Platform, announced the next release of SignalFx Microservices APM, the only application performance monitoring solution that provides customers complete observability into modern, cloud-native environments to produce meaningful business outcomes regardless of scale. "As organizations make the shift from on-premises to hybrid and cloud-native environments, Splunk is the only company that can support any organization's observability needs across all stages of their digital transformation," said Rick Fitz, senior vice president and general manager, IT Markets, Splunk.
InfiniteIO, which offers the world's fastest metadata platform to accelerate applications, announced new Hybrid Cloud Tiering software that provides native file access for traditional and cloud-native applications. Powered by the InfiniteIO File Metadata Engine, InfiniteIO allows IT teams to access and manage all data migrated to object storage in native file format.
Avaya Holdings, a global leader in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, and RingCentral, a leading provider of global enterprise cloud communications, collaboration and contact center solutions, announced general availability of the highly anticipated Avaya Cloud Office by RingCentral solution. Avaya Cloud Office enhances the way organizations communicate with customers, partners and with colleagues through an all-in-one solution that delivers seamless collaboration across multiple channels.
San Francisco-based cloud security startup Panther Labs has launched the first stable version of its open-source security information and event management solution, Panther. Advertised as "a powerful alternative to traditional SIEMs like Splunk," Panther is self-hosted and it uses Python to analyze logs from popular security tools, and also includes support for analyzing cloud resources with policies to help discover vulnerable infrastructure and establish security best practices.
With more and more companies seeking ways to get their essential work done with a workforce that is now primarily home-based during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, IBM has joined a legion of IT vendors that have been offering some of their critical IT applications and services for free to existing customers to help in this time of crisis. Under the new offer, nine IBM cloud products and services are now available for use by IBM customers that need them at no charge for 90 days, including IBM Cloud, Aspera file sharing and team collaboration, IBM Security, IBM Video Streaming and IBM Enterprise Video Streaming, IBM Sterling supply chain tools, IBM Blueworks Live remote collaboration tools, IBM Cloud Event Management, remote learning resources, and IBM Garage.
MariaDB announced the immediate availability of MariaDB SkySQL, the first database-as-a-service to unlock the full power of MariaDB Platform for transactions, analytics or both, and optimized with a cloud-native architecture. "Existing services, long in the tooth, lock out community innovation, meaning patches, new versions and features are missing for literally years. MariaDB SkySQL is a next-generation cloud database, built by the world's top database engineers in the industry, allowing organizations large and small to know they have an always-on partner to not only roll out new applications, but ensure a consistent and enduring quality of service."
Shortly after our story was published, an infoec bod, who asked to remain anonymous, told El Reg they could access the files in the leaky bucket weeks after it was supposedly taken down. A report from Google claims phishing attacks from government-backed spies are increasingly disguised as messages from journalists.
So how do we explain the ever-increasing number of data breaches? According to Cloud Security Risks & How to Mitigate Them.Insufficient access management and account hijacking.
While many companies are beginning to migrate security tools to the cloud, a significant number have concerns, a survey by Exabeam reveals. Typically, organizations migrate security tools to the cloud to minimize the resources and overhead associated with owning and maintaining on-premises equipment and software.