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Entrust has announced its HyTrust CloudControl solution - now an Entrust business - now supports VMware Cloud Foundation, enabling unified security and compliance controls across the platform, lowering operational overhead and facilitating workload agility. As the hybrid cloud platform for managing virtual machines and orchestrating containers, VMware Cloud Foundation provides a single architecture for consistent, secure infrastructure and operations across private and public clouds.
The Cloud Security Alliance has released new Crypto-Asset Exchange Security Guidelines, a set of guidelines and best practices for crypto-asset exchange security. Drafted by CSA's Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Working Group, the document provides readers with a comprehensive set of guidelines for effective exchange security to help educate users, policymakers, and cybersecurity professionals on the pros and cons of further securing cryptocurrency exchanges, including both Decentralized Exchanges and hosted wallets at cloud-based exchanges, OTC desks, and cryptocurrency swap services.
For its McAfee Labs Threats Report: April 2021 report, the security provider focused on cyber incidents and malware that occurred during the third and fourth quarters of 2020. Though these types of attacks hit a high during the second quarter, they remained steady in most countries and increased in some over the third and fourth quarters.
Zyxel Networks announced the addition of the USG FLEX firewall series to its signature Nebula Cloud Networking solution. Equipped with the newly-released firmware version ZLD5.0, the USG FLEX firewalls add the robust, intelligent network security capability that establishes Nebula as the most comprehensive cloud networking solution for SMBs and MSPs. The distribution of the workforce, initially driven by COVID-19 restrictions, presents businesses with the challenge of providing critical connectivity to network resources and assets to remote employees outside of the main office.
The majority of organizations have already migrated their VPN solution to the cloud, a NetMotion survey reveals. Key findings 54% of organizations have shifted their remote access solution from on-premise to the cloud.
Alation launched Alation Cloud Service, a comprehensive cloud-based platform for data intelligence. Alation Cloud Service offers a simple, fast way to drive data intelligence across an organization's hybrid architecture.
Unit4 announced the general availability of ERPx, the next-generation intelligent Enterprise Resource Planning solution built specifically for mid-market, people-centric organizations. Unit4 ERPx is laser-focused on people-centric organizations, specifically professional services, non-profits, higher education and public sector.
The release is an entirely new end-to-end deployment and usage pattern of the Privitar Data Privacy Platform for AWS that enables customers to protect their sensitive data in the cloud easily and with minimal infrastructure setup and maintenance. By bringing deployment automation to AWS, Privitar is helping customers enable serverless policy execution with AWS Glue, a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, and combine data for analytics, machine learning, and application development, and importing schemas from the AWS Glue Data Catalog.
As cloud technologies become more varied and omnipresent and as cloud stacks become increasingly modular and layered, we're going to see a higher rate of full-on attacks. This clearly meets a critical need, but also opens up potential security compromises, including cloud-native watering hole attack risks.
In 2020, the most common incidents that financial organizations suffered regarding data in the cloud were phishing attacks, targeted attacks on cloud infrastructure and ransomware, Netwrix reveals. The report also revealed that 59% of financial orgs consider understaffed IT and security teams to be the major reason they struggle to secure data in the cloud.