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An employee at emergency roadside rescue biz RAC has received an eight-month suspended prison sentence for unsanctioned access to computer systems that saw her sell customers' data to an accident claims management company. Kim Doyle pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to secure unauthorised access to computer data and cashing in on RAC punters' personal information that she passed to William Shaw, director of TMS, trading as LIS Claims.
Iridium announced commercial availability of the Iridium Edge Solar - a secure, maintenance-free, solar-powered remote asset tracking and management device. With over-the-air configuration capabilities, the Iridium Edge Solar is ideal for Vessel Monitoring Systems, fisheries management, tracking of freight shipping containers, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition applications, monitoring of oil and gas pipelines and heavy equipment telematics data reporting.
ePlus announced that it has acquired the business of System Management and Planning, a provider of technology solutions and services in upstate New York and the Northeast. The acquisition enhances ePlus' footprint across the region, broadens its technology solution offerings especially in the areas of collaboration and supporting virtual employees, and adds to ePlus' set of commercial, enterprise and state, local, and education customers.
Enterprises will take baby steps towards left-shifting their vulnerability remediation programs. As we move into 2021, the good news is we'll learn a lot about left shifting vulnerability remediation programs.
OneTrust, a provider of privacy, security and data governance tools, announced a $300 million Series C funding round led by new investor TCV. The company's valuation has nearly doubled in the past ten months, jumping from $2.7 billion when the company announced its $210 million Series B round in early 2020, to a current valuation of $5.1 billion. OneTrust says that more than 7,500 customers, including more than half of the Fortune 500, use its technology to comply with ever-changing privacy, security, and compliance requirements.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has disclosed a zero-day bug in the latest versions of its proprietary HPE Systems Insight Manager software for Windows and Linux. HPE SIM is a management and remote support automation solution for multiple HPE servers, storage, and networking products including but not limited to HPE ProLiant Gen10 and HPE ProLiant Gen9 Servers.
IDEMIA and Kudelski IoT announced a joint solution for mobile network operators, mobile virtual network operators, original equipment manufacturers and service providers to enable efficient IoT device provisioning at scale, without compromising on connectivity or data security. IDEMIA, member of the Trusted Connectivity Alliance, and Kudelski IoT are taking on the challenge of data privacy and device protection with a simplified, end-to-end security solution for IoT deployments designed to securely connect devices to the cloud.
Data management and governance provider Skyflow this week announced a new $17.5 million Series A financing round, bringing the total raised by the company to date up to $25 million. Previously, Skyflow raised $7.5 million in a seed round led by Foundation Capital.
xMatters announced new adaptive incident management feature advancements that provide increased automation across each stage of the incident management lifecycle - diagnosis and collaboration, resolution and post-incident learning. Technology teams can also benefit from continuous improvement throughout the incident management lifecycle to prevent incident recurrences - leaving more time for product innovation.
Today, the Linux Foundation announced a cloud-native identity and access management software platform that prioritizes security and performance, the Janssen Project, which is based on the Gluu server and features signing and encryption functionalities. The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization enabling innovation through open source, also announced the Janssen Project Technical Steering Committee, which is comprised of engineers from IDEMIA, F5, BioID, Couchbase, and Gluu.