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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.
Security policies governing remote working and secure access were either scaled up or slapped together in an ad hoc fashion to keep operations going, but they often interfered with worker productivity. The problems with unanticipated demand for secure remote work.
Cybersecurity spending in critical infrastructure has been little impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, save for some reshuffling on where that spend is most needed. Most of the cybersecurity spending announced by governments has not changed significantly however, with most maintaining similar funding planned in previous years, with an average Year-on-Year growth rate between 5% and 10%. According to a report by ABI Research, cybersecurity spending for critical infrastructure will increase by $9 billion over the next year to reach $105.99 billion in 2021.
Google Cloud and Sigfox announced that the leading global 0G network and IoT platform services provider, has partnered with Google Cloud, to scale its cloud infrastructure and extend its IoT services portfolio. Google Cloud will also enable faster improvements to Sigfox's connectivity, geolocation, and other value-added services towards ultra-low-cost and ultra-low-power IoT solutions.
Threat Stack announced new capabilities that help security teams quickly detect and remediate threats in cloud infrastructure. Threat Stack now enriches Linux host and container events in real time with EC2 metadata like VPC, security group, and DNS names.