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The solution addresses a clear market need in the service provider product portfolio to expand cloud PBX services by offering business mobility, messaging, and video conferencing. Following Alianza's acquisition of CounterPath in March 2021, the combined teams have rapidly integrated their next generation cloud PBX platform with softphones, cloud meetings, and mobile UCaaS solution - creating an easy to manage upgrade path for business customers.
Cloud-native authorization provider Styra on Tuesday announced that it closed a $40 million Series B funding round. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, Styra is best known for the Open Policy Agent, a policy engine for automatically enforcing, monitoring, and remediating policies across IT environments, including cloud-native applications.
Cloud Security Posture Management firm Aqua Security has analyzed the anonymized cloud configuration data of hundreds of its clients over a period of 12 months. The intent was to discover the size of the cloud misconfiguration problem, and the response from industry to known issues.
Reflecting the overwhelming amount of configurations practitioners must address, even when companies are aware of errors, most have not addressed the bulk of these issues in a timely manner. "When you consider that a single cloud misconfiguration can expose organizations to severe cyber risk, such as data breaches, resource hijacking and denial of service attacks, the consequences of failing to address misconfiguration issues are all too real to ignore," said Assaf Morag, Lead Data Analyst with Aqua's Team Nautilus.
Digital transformation is driving multi-cloud migrations, as 85 percent of organizations use at least two cloud providers for data storage and analytics, while 40 percent use five or more. Comprised of 100 executives from Fortune 500 companies, the survey found businesses are experiencing a conflict between a data scientist's need for quick data access and IT's need to ensure data security and privacy, as 58 percent felt that access restrictions were impacting the productivity of their analytic teams.
ClearDATA announced an expanded capability of their ClearDATA Healthcare Security and Compliance Platform, enabling healthcare organizations and their business associates to automatically detect protected health information in multi-cloud storage buckets. "In today's climate, cybersecurity breaches are at an all-time high, partially due to the industry's accelerating cloud adoption to tackle the unique challenges healthcare has encountered during the pandemic," said Suhas Kelkar, Chief Product Officer at ClearDATA. "This new technology offering enhances healthcare organizations' ability to create secure environments for data that facilitate innovation, collaboration and scalability."
In response, we have seen a noticeable shift to companies adopting hybrid cloud environments - a solution that takes advantage of the best qualities of both the public and private cloud. Companies are increasingly deploying a hybrid cloud approach to balance the benefits and challenges presented by both the public and private cloud.
Auth0 announced the Auth0 identity operating system, a cloud-native, adaptable platform for development teams. Built with extensible building blocks, the Auth0 identity OS enables organizations to manage the complexities of today's identity management, while also prioritizing the security, privacy, and convenience of their end users.
SkyKick announced major upgrades to its Cloud Manager product that will further help ITSPs navigate the increasingly complex world of SMB cloud management. This Cloud Manager release brings significant automation capabilities to Cloud Command, Security, and Teams product areas to help ITSPs better manage and secure cloud customers.
More than one year into the pandemic, banks, insurers, and other financial institutions report costly consequences to falling short of protecting their massive data troves from cloud-based attacks and network disruptions. Biggest cybersecurity issues for financial institutions Data breaches are an increasingly significant cost burden for the industry: Worldwide, financial firms that experienced a data breach reported estimated average losses of roughly $4.2 million per attack, with U.S. organizations hit hardest at $4.7 million in estimated losses.