Security News
Here is a quick guide into how healthcare providers can ensure HIPAA compliance when using the cloud. As cloud platforms that are working with healthcare providers are concerned with protected health information, each platform is considered a HIPAA business associate.
ColorTokens launched its Xaccess product, a SaaS module within its Xtended ZeroTrust Platform, that allows its customers to provide secure zero trust access for remote employees, third parties, or contractors from distributed locations as they connect with their cloud or data center-based applications or data. Further, when combined with broader capabilities in the Xtended ZeroTrust Platform, Xaccess uniquely offers customers a single integrated solution across multiple user access needs and across cloud or hybrid applications and data stores.
Google Cloud on Monday announced that its Certificate Authority Service is now generally available. The Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service, for which a public preview was announced in October 2020, is designed to help organizations "Simplify, automate, and customize the deployment, management, and security of private certificate authorities."
The space community is growing rapidly and Microsoft's Space team is developing capabilities and services to meet its needs for extended connectivity across the world, simulated digital space environments, and ways for dealing with the huge amount of data generated from satellites. Stephen Kitay - the Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy and now Senior Director at Microsoft Azure Space - shared with Help Net Security how the company is helping drive innovation both on the ground and in orbit.
In addition to Windows 11, Microsoft has been secretly working on a new Windows PC experience called 'Cloud PC' that allows business customers to run virtualized desktops in the cloud. Cloud PC is reportedly based on Azure and uses Windows Virtual Desktop and remote desktop clients to stream a Windows desktop to any device.
Accenture has completed its acquisition of Linkbynet, a cloud services provider headquartered in France, specializing in cloud optimization and managed services, cloud transformation and cloud security. Accenture announced its intent to acquire Linkbynet on May 11, 2021.
Tech Mahindra has announced collaboration with enterprises, academicians, and industry advisors to constitute a 'Cloud Advisory Board'. The cloud advisory board will work towards accelerating cloud transformation and build a robust roadmap for business agility and competitive edge for enterprises.
"For businesses around the world and across all industries, cloud transformation is one of their most important technology initiatives and closing the growing cloud skills gap is their single biggest challenge in meeting it. As the leader in technology skill development for large enterprises around the world, we are determined to be their trusted partner to solve it," said Aaron Skonnard, co-founder and CEO of Pluralsight. "With our acquisition of A Cloud Guru, we are now positioned to deliver the most comprehensive solution for driving cloud maturity at scale through an all-in-one solution for cloud skill development."
Despite high adoption rates of cloud native technologies in recent years, enterprises have yet to cross the chasm to full adoption, but they're quickly moving in that direction, according to initial results of a survey released by Canonical. Showing the multi-dimensional nature of today's cloud native technology landscape, the survey found that while 45.6 percent of respondents report using Kubernetes in production, only 15.7 percent use Kubernetes exclusively.
SoftServe and Google Cloud Premier Partner, has achieved the Security Specialization in the Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program, having proven its expertise and success in building security solutions on Google Cloud's Platform. "We are excited to add this Security Specialization at a time when cybercrime is becoming ever more prevalent and attacks are becoming more sophisticated," said Todd Lenox, VP Alliances and Partnerships at SoftServe.