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Guardicore announced new capabilities that extends microsegmentation and zero trust security to the industry broadest catalog of legacy servers, applications, and operating systems. Customers using Guardicore Centra to protect their hybrid data centers that include legacy servers can now extend zero trust policies and granular microsegmentation to IBM iSeries AS/400 servers.

Cisco announced new server solutions supported by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors to bring new performance and security capabilities to customers' hybrid cloud infrastructure. To help technology teams address increasingly complex hybrid cloud environments, Cisco today is introducing Unified Computing System server models with the latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

Cisco Secure unveiled the future of simple and effective security with infrastructure agnostic, passwordless authentication by Duo. Integrated seamlessly into the existing Duo authentication experience used by more than 25,000 organizations globally, Duo passwordless authentication will enable enterprise users to skip the password and securely log into cloud applications via security keys or biometrics built into modern laptops and smartphones.

Critical infrastructure protection firm OPSWAT has secured $125 million growth funding from Brighton Park Capital. OPSWAT is expanding rapidly, and Benny Czarny, founder and CEO, expects to hire up to 100 more over the next three years in the Tampa, Florida area.

DTEX Systems announced that it has broadened the reach of its Workforce Cyber Security Platform, DTEX InTERCEPT, with enhanced capabilities to monitor and secure server infrastructures. "If the Tesla, General Electric, Microsoft Exchange and Verkada attacks have taught us anything, it is that we need to rethink server visibility, detection and protection," said Mohan Koo, Co-founder and CTO, DTEX Systems.

Aqua Security announced that its cloud native security platform now protects containers and Virtual Machine workloads at runtime on Arm-powered devices. This enables Aqua customers to take advantage of the high density and cost-effectiveness provided by Arm-powered hosts and devices across cloud infrastructure, edge and IoT platforms, including the new AWS Graviton2 instances from Amazon Web Services.

VMware announced portfolio updates to help customers modernize their applications and infrastructure. The new releases of vSphere 7 and vSAN 7 will help IT teams support new and existing applications with infrastructure that is developer and AI-ready; scales without compromise; boosts infrastructure and data security; and simplifies operations.

Hacker groups linked to Russian intelligence conducted cyber-attacks against top Lithuanian officials and decision-makers last year and used the Baltic nation's technology infrastructure as a base to hit targets elsewhere, a report by Lithuania's intelligence service said Thursday. The annual national security threat assessment report claimed that, among others, the Russian cyber-espionage group APT29 with alleged links to Russia's intelligence services "Exploited" Lithuania's information technology infrastructure "To carry out attacks by APT29 against foreign entities developing a COVID-19 vaccine."

Unbound Security unveiled Unbound Security CORE, a new all-encompassing platform that enables businesses to manage all cryptographic keys from multiple environments in one single place. Unbound Security CORE is a key orchestration platform that delivers business agility by virtualizing enterprise cryptographic infrastructure.

Infrastructure modernization remains the most important use case for enterprise open source for the third consecutive year, according to Red Hat's newly released State of Enterprise Open Source Report. "The two are closely related because new applications are a big part of digital transformation. Taken together, they clearly demonstrate that organizations are using enterprise open source for strategic purposes, not just for infrastructure 'plumbing,'" the report said.