Security News
WWDC Apple on Monday opened its 2021 Worldwide Developer Conference by promising a raft of operating system and privacy improvements - including a relay system to anonymize Safari connections, and randomized email addresses for online account signups. Apple pundits had anticipated an Arm-based MacBook Pro, yet no word of next-generation Apple Silicon machines surfaced.
SignalWire announced that it has raised $30 Million in a Series B round to accelerate the creation of the next generation of unified cloud communications tools. Since its inception, SignalWire's singular focus has been on the democratization of communications applications, and it is now building the infrastructure for Telecom 2.0, the next generation of modern telecommunications technologies.
WatchGuard announced that it has integrated the WatchGuard endpoint security product family - previously known as Panda Adaptive Defense 360, Adaptive Defense, Endpoint Protection Plus and Endpoint Protection - into WatchGuard Cloud. "WatchGuard's driving mission is to create the security platform of MSPs' dreams, and less than one year after acquiring Panda Security we've taken another significant step forward," said Andrew Young, senior vice president of product management at WatchGuard.
OwnBackup announces the acquisition of Nimmetry, based in Santa Clara, CA, with a significant presence in Hyderabad, India. "This acquisition accelerates OwnBackup's multi-cloud strategy. The entrance into the Indian market and the access to the talented professionals that are now part of the OwnBackup family marks the continuance of a long-term commitment on OwnBackup's part to providing industry-leading products and services to help our customers protect their mission critical SaaS data," says Sam Gutmann, CEO of OwnBackup.
That's why last December we were one of the first in the world to launch support for the Intel SGX encryption standard in our public cloud. This technology dramatically enhances data protection with built-in cloud management tools from Intel.
They have developed SeKVM, the first system that guarantees - through a mathematical proof - the security of virtual machines in the cloud. The researchers hope to lay the foundation for future innovations in system software verification, leading to a new generation of cyber-resilient system software.
SnapLogic announced the latest release of the SnapLogic Fast Data Loader, making it fast and easy for an IT specialist, data engineer, or business analyst to load data into a cloud data warehouse. With the SnapLogic Fast Data Loader, users can quickly and easily load data from SaaS applications such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Coupa, as well as cloud databases including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server into a cloud data warehouse such as Amazon Redshift, Snowflake, or SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.
Egnyte announced new integrations with Google Workspace and Dropbox to help companies secure and govern their sensitive cloud content. The integrations enable companies' Google and Dropbox users to apply Egnyte's platform to locate their valuable content in each cloud solution and control risks via a unified, turnkey approach.
There, an Amazon Web Services cloud vulnerability, compounded by Capital One's own struggle to properly configure a complex cloud service, led to the disclosure of tens of millions of customer records, including credit card applications, Social Security numbers, and bank account information. As long as a cloud provider isn't losing customers by the droves - which generally doesn't happen after a security incident - it is incentivized to underinvest in security.
AtScale announced the launch of AtScale CloudStart for building powerful analytics infrastructure on cloud data platforms. CloudStart provides customers a way to start with a smaller semantic layer investment aligned with entry points for cloud data platforms with the ability to scale seamlessly with your analytics infrastructure.