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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.
HYAS, a Victoria, Canada-based provider of threat intelligence based on adversary infrastructure, announced this week that it has closed a $16 million Series B round of funding led by S3 Ventures. HYAS says it has created a massive data lake of attacker infrastructure, including domain-based intelligence that can be connected to other security tools using an API, and also offers its own cloud-based DNS security solution.
This global Alliance brings together top technologists across the AI spectrum and includes a wide range of member companies. Partnerships in the Alliance will help create a Canonical Stack for AI, by driving strong engineering standards and creating seamless integration points between various layers of the AI infrastructure ecosystem.
BBVA and Google Cloud announced a new strategic partnership to transform the bank's security strategy by optimizing and improving its security infrastructure. BBVA is the first bank in Europe to deploy Chronicle, Google Cloud's security analytics platform that allows teams to store and analyze all their security data in one place to detect and investigate threats at scale.
There's an increased adoption of managed infrastructure services and the emergence of new cloud watering hole attacks, Accurics reveals. Cloud infrastructure risks Kubernetes users who try to implement role-based access controls often fail to define roles at the proper granularity.
In a new report, analysts from Forrester touted the Zero Trust Edge model as a way for organizations to unify networking and security infrastructure while also securing and enabling remote workers. "The Zero Trust Edge model is a safer on-ramp to the internet for organizations' physical locations and remote workers. A ZTE network is a virtual network that spans the internet and is directly accessible from every major city in the world. It uses Zero Trust Network Access to authenticate and authorize users as they connect to it and through it," Holmes wrote.
Calix announced a significant update to AXOS which expands infrastructure APIs to enable full modularity across network functions. As new services proliferate and network demand increases, the pace of new service rollouts is accelerating across markets.