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Google Cloud and Workday announced a strategic partnership that will enable businesses across the world to further their digital transformations. As a Workday preferred cloud partner across core industries-such as healthcare, financial services, and retail-Google Cloud will help businesses run Workday enterprise applications for finance, HR, and planning in a public cloud environment, with ease-of-management, and low network latency.
Extreme Networks announced the intent to acquire a newly created entity called Ipanematech, the SD-WAN division of Infovista. The acquisition will expand Extreme's market-leading ExtremeCloudä portfolio, offering new cloud-managed SD-WAN and security solutions required to power the Infinite Enterprise.
OwnBackup also announced plans to expand its comprehensive backup and recovery solutions across other cloud platforms later this year, beginning with Microsoft. OwnBackup currently provides cloud data protection, sandbox seeding and data archiving solutions for nearly 4,000 organizations worldwide.
McAfee announced that MVISION Cloud, part of its secure access service edge offering - MVISION Unified Cloud Edge, now provides enhanced security coverage for Microsoft Dynamics 365, a line of enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management software applications. MVISION Cloud for Dynamics 365 provides an advanced set of security tools that are delivered via API, enabling holistic security controls across Dynamics 365.
The PCI Security Standards Council and the Cloud Security Alliance issued a joint bulletin to highlight the importance of properly scoping cloud environments. At a high level, scoping involves the identification of people, processes, and technologies that interact with or could otherwise impact the security of payment data or systems.
Elastic announces new capabilities and updates to the Elastic Stack and Elastic Cloud to make data onboarding and management faster, simpler, and more secure. The general availability of Elastic Agent, centrally managed by Fleet, enables users and customers to integrate data across multiple data sources while also providing endpoint security.
ACI Worldwide announced an expanded multi-year strategic alliance with Microsoft to deliver payments solutions in the cloud. The alliance will accelerate and expand ACI's cloud payments offerings in Microsoft Azure as more financial institutions embrace digital transformation.
Code42 announced that its Code42 Incydr software solution can now automatically distinguish between browser uploads to corporate and personal cloud applications, including Google Drive and Box. Today, 91% of security leaders believe that users are exfiltrating data through personal cloud accounts, yet nearly half don't have a tool to differentiate personal and corporate cloud application uploads.
This undocumented spying option was also available at Google Cloud DNS and at least one other DNS-as-a-service provider. In a presentation earlier this week at the Black Hat USA 2021 security conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Shir Tamari and Ami Luttwak from security firm Wiz, described how they found a DNS name server hijacking flaw that allowed them to spy on the dynamic DNS traffic of other customers.
On-premises, private cloud, and public cloud data are all vulnerable to insiders and malicious software. According to 451 Research, nearly 70% of CISOs say the public cloud can't be rationally trusted to keep sensitive data and workloads confidential.