Security News

Extreme Networks announced it is one of the fastest growing cloud-managed network service providers and is the second-ranking brand in the industry as reported in 650 Group's June 2021 Cloud-Managed Network Services Report. According to 650 Group, the cloud-managed network services market experienced 38% growth year-over-year from 2020 to 2021, while Extreme delivered 101% growth during that same period.

According to the 200 CISOs and other security decision makers who participated in the survey, nearly 60% consider lack of visibility as well as inadequate identity and access management a major threat to their cloud infrastructure. 85% of organizations said they plan to increase their security spending this year, with a significant portion being allocated to cloud infrastructure security.

D-Link has introduced their latest Cloud-enabled SD-WAN Gateway and mobile apps to their Nuclias Cloud network management solution at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. D-Link's Nuclias Cloud Networking Solution helps businesses resolve these issues and build the infrastructure needed to support a largely remote workforce while reducing cost, maximizing resources, and alleviating daily network management challenges.

Virtana announces the momentum of Virtana Platform, with successful customer and partner use cases for its module, Virtana Migrate. The SaaS solution, with strategic partner Presidio, delivered cloud migration efficiency and cost optimization for a national insurance company, accelerating their move to Amazon Web Services by 70%. The Virtana Migrate module within Virtana Platform brought the insight this insurance company needed to rightsize, de-risk, and accelerate their migration.

Providing a powerful foundation to develop and connect diverse workloads across the hybrid cloud, Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 helps organizations accelerate the creation of new cloud-native applications without abandoning existing environments and IT investments. As new customer goals continue to create room for market innovation, Red Hat OpenShift 4.8 provides organizations a common foundation to more consistently develop, deploy and run a hybrid mix of applications and services.

Google Compute Engine virtual machines can be hijacked and made to hand over root shell access via a cunning DHCP attack, according to security researcher Imre Rad. Though the weakness remains unpatched, there are some mitigating factors that diminish the potential risk. A successful attack involves overloading a victim's VM with DHCP traffic so that it ends up using a rogue attacker-controlled metadata server, which can be on the same network or on the other side of the internet.

Avaya launched Avaya OneCloud for Service Cloud on Salesforce AppExchange, empowering customers to connect Avaya OneCloud to Salesforce Service Cloud, enabling AI and voice benefits that offer more customer service experiences. A new Service Cloud integration brings together voice, digital channels and customer insights into one central view for service agents.

Register for this upcoming webinar to learn how to reduce risk with integrated endpoint-to-cloud security. Currently, security from endpoints to the cloud involves multiple standalone tools that solve specific problems.

Anjuna, a provider of cloud application security, today announced that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding, which brings the total raised by the company to date to $42 million. The funding round was led by Insight Partners and is expected to help the company bring its Confidential Cloud Software Platform to market and support technology development and innovation.

Splunk announced the new Splunk Security Cloud, a data-centric modern security operations platform that delivers advanced security analytics, automated security operations, and integrated threat intelligence with an open, unparalleled ecosystem. "As the volume and complexity of data grows and customers' digital environments get more complex, Splunk Security Cloud provides the best solutions to help customers solve their ever-evolving security challenges."