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More than 40 organizations have been targeted in a global campaign focused on the COVID-19 vaccine cold chain infrastructure, which handles the distribution of vaccines and their storage at the required temperatures. A total of 44 organizations in 14 countries were targeted.
IBM, Red Hat and Cobuilder announced a global collaboration to co-develop OpenBuilt, a new platform designed to help securely connect fragmented construction industry supply chains. Built on Red Hat OpenShift and running on IBM Cloud, OpenBuilt will offer new digital solutions to help innovate and drive more efficient, sustainable and safer construction projects.
Celonis, IBM and Red Hat announced a global strategic partnership to help accelerate the adoption of the Celonis Execution Management System and help deliver more flexibility and choice in how customers deploy the technology. "Through the strategic partnership with IBM and Red Hat, we plan to help power the shift from analog to intelligent business execution, helping many of the world's largest companies with their transactional systems, boosting their business performance," said Miguel Milano, Chief Revenue Officer and co-owner of Celonis.
Organizations in the financial and insurance sectors were the most targeted by threat actors in 2020, continuing a trend that was first observed roughly five years ago, IBM Security reports. Retail and professional services rounded up the top five most targeted sectors, IBM says.
IBM announced on Wednesday the launch of new and enhanced services to help simplify security for the hybrid cloud. The suite of services will help businesses manage their cloud security strategy, policies and controls across hybrid cloud environments by bringing together cloud-native, IBM and third-party technologies with IBM expertise to assist organizations in the creation of a unified security approach across their cloud ecosystems.
IBM Security announced new and enhanced services designed to help organizations manage their cloud security strategy, policies and controls across hybrid cloud environments. The expanded suite of IBM Security Services for Cloud is designed to help companies adopt a consistent security strategy across their hybrid cloud environments - supported by IBM specialists with expertise to manage native security controls across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure, amongst others.
IBM announced a series of new and updated capabilities for developers designed to deliver intelligent application analysis throughout the DevOps pipeline, generally available on March 19. To help clients unlock the value of DevOps across the enterprise, and help reduce risk around application modernization, IBM is announcing new IBM Wazi Analyze capabilities to help bring IBM Z into the DevOps pipeline, unlocking uniform, enterprise-wide agile delivery processes and standards with transferable skills for non-Z developers.
IBM announced key members of the executive team to lead the independent company that will be created following the previously announced separation of IBM's Managed Infrastructure Services business. "These executives bring great global expertise as we build a purpose-led culture for our new company," said Martin Schroeter, who assumed the role of NewCo's Chief Executive Officer on January 15.
IBM announced availability of Red Hat software on IBM Power Systems as well as new IBM Power Systems hardware. New IBM Power Private Cloud Rack solution - Providing clients an optimized, production-level OpenShift platform to modernize traditional environments with cloud-native applications, the IBM Power Private Cloud Rack combines on-premises hardware, a complete software stack of IBM and Red Hat technology, and installation from IBM Systems Lab Services to deliver 49% lower cost per request as compared to similarly equipped x86-based platformsii.
IBM has patched a critical buffer-overflow error that affects Big Blue's Integration Designer toolset, which helps enterprises create business processes that integrate applications and data. "By sending an overly long string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash," according to IBM's Monday security advisory.