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Nutanix announced general availability of Nutanix Clusters on AWS, extending the flexibility and ease of use of the company's hyperconverged infrastructure software, along with all Nutanix products and services, to bare metal Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances on Amazon Web Services. With this announcement, Nutanix delivers hybrid cloud infrastructure - one that allows businesses to accelerate their digital initiatives and optimize spending, priorities further amplified in the age of COVID. Nutanix offers a single stack that integrates compute and storage, provides unified operations across private and public clouds, integrated networking with AWS, and license portability from private to public clouds, thus addressing key technical and operational challenges of the hybrid cloud era.
From a cybersecurity perspective, perhaps the greatest risk for digital education comes from the wide variation across districts in terms of resources. Data from Microsoft has shown that education as an industry accounted for 60% of reported malware encounters in June - affecting more than 5 million devices in just 30 days.
AppViewX announced its partnership with Google Cloud to support its newly announced Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service with AppViewX's Certificate Lifecycle Management and Automation product, CERT+. This integration enables businesses to simplify deployment of private CAs, enabling end-to-end automation of enterprise infrastructure, DevOps and IoT. Google Cloud and AppViewX's integration primarily focuses on securing the growing number of digital identities with a robust and future-proof PKI system, allowing users to communicate with DevOps tools and CI/CD toolchains.
Its underlying truth is undeniable: today's technology, particularly at a time of wholesale digital transformation, has expanded the threat surface exponentially, and it keeps expanding all the time, frequently exceeding the bandwidth of human operators to triage which threats are more critical. Research from the North Carolina State University found that leaks of digital secrets - passwords, cryptographic keys, API, and access credentials to more than 100,000 private code repositories - take place on development platforms such as GitHub thousands of times a day.
The challenge for cybersecurity teams is finding effective ways to deliver and maintain security at the speed of digital transformation, ensuring that every new technology, digital process, customer and partner interaction and innovation is protected. Modern security platforms help simplify data analytics by delivering capabilities that amplify threat detection, response and mitigation activities; deliver risk-management insights; and help organizations stay ahead of potential threats.
Digital banking service Dave announced over the weekend that user data was compromised in a third-party security incident. The newly disclosed data breach, Dave says, was the result of a security incident at Git analytics tool Waydev, a former service provider for Dave.
Fawkes is a system for manipulating digital images so that they aren't recognized by facial recognition systems. At a high level, Fawkes takes your personal images, and makes tiny, pixel-level changes to them that are invisible to the human eye, in a process we call image cloaking.
Kingston Digital, the flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, announced the addition of 128GB capacity options to three of its encrypted USB flash drives. The simple inclusion of encrypted USB flash drives into a daily workflow is a simple step to ensuring data is safe.
In conversations with CISOs and CIOs we've seen a huge disparity in levels of preparedness and the ability to adjust operations, depending on where companies fall on the spectrum of digital transformation. 1) The person in charge of digital transformation, be it the Chief Digital Officer or some combination of the CIO, COO and CISO, must garner support from the rest of the executive team for digital transformation projects.
Digital privacy is paramount to the global community, but it must be balanced against the proliferation of digital-first crimes, including child sexual abuse, human trafficking, hate crimes, government suppression, and identity theft. The more the world connects with each other, the greater the tension between maintaining privacy and protecting those who could be victimized.