Security News

Arista Networks announced several additions to its multi-cloud and cloud-native software product family with CloudEOS Edge: designed to integrate with native cloud networking services like Amazon Web Services Transit Gateway, enabling cost-effective and high-scale multi-cloud routing services for enterprise IT organizations and production services. Enterprise customers are provisioning, connecting and monitoring their entire multi-cloud networking environment including on-premises private cloud, remote cloud-connected sites and public cloud infrastructures in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform with CloudEOS and Arista CloudVision.

EfficientIP launched Cloud IPAM Sync, a new service that enables IT managers to improve control over applications hosted in multi-cloud environments. Cloud IPAM Sync uses DDI to provide central visibility and unified management over internal and cloud datacenters, thanks to real-time repository information.

Tufin announced a new release of Tufin SecureCloud, providing security for cloud-native, multi-cloud, and hybrid-cloud workloads and applications. The new release includes Center for Internet Security Benchmarks for Kubernetes and public cloud environments, Kubernetes best practices and assessments, streamlined risk analysis, enhanced security policy discovery and automatic generation.

FireEye, the intelligence-led security company, announced the availability of FireEye Cloudvisory, a control center for cloud security management across any security environment - private, public and hybrid. Fully integrated into the broader FireEye cloud security portfolio, Cloudvisory now offers customers instant deployment across their cloud infrastructures, and further capabilities in security analytics through FireEye Helix and advanced threat detection through FireEye Detection On Demand.

Orca Security, founded last year by a group of former Check Point executives and architects, announced a $20 million Series A funding round led by GGV Capital with participation from YL Ventures and SVCI. The funding will fuel additional company growth to help more worldwide customers gain deeper visibility into AWS, Azure, and GCP at a fraction of the time and operational cost of alternative solutions. Since its inception, Orca Security has been on an explosive path to solve a fundamental challenge-to provide frictionless cloud security with the breadth and depth to quickly analyze all cloud assets for risks.

Surveying over 250 worldwide business executives and IT professionals from a diverse group of technical backgrounds, Denodo's cloud usage survey revealed that hybrid cloud configurations are the centre of all cloud deployments at 42 percent, followed by public and private clouds. The advantages of hybrid cloud and multi-cloud configurations according to respondents include the ability to diversify spend and skills, build resiliency, and cherry-pick features and capabilities depending on each cloud service provider's particular strengths, all while avoiding the dreaded vendor lock-in.

Vizru is announcing the launch of Vizru ZEOS, industry's first OS for delivering and governing AI applications at-scale. With the launch of ZEOS, Vizru has successfully decoupled composition of apps from governance.

Equinix, the global interconnection and data center company, announced one of its largest expansions of Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric in seven new EMEA markets to help global businesses simplify hybrid and multicloud infrastructures. In response to this market shift, Equinix is extending its ECX Fabric service in EMEA to help digital businesses simplify hybrid multicloud deployments and expand their global interconnection opportunities on Platform Equinix®.

To address these challenges, cloud providers have introduced support for Bring Your Own Key that allows organizations to encrypt data inside cloud services with their own keys while still continuing to leverage the cloud provider's native encryption services to protect their data. Even with BYOK, keys still exist in the cloud providers' key management service.

Alkira CSX enables cloud architects and network engineers to build and deploy a point and click multi-cloud network in minutes, with the flexibility to turn services on and off as the business requires, with no upfront CapEx. "Alkira is like having your own personalized virtual co-location capability for cloud network access. It comes with a rich suite of secure and resilient unified services that enable on-time and at scale cloud connectivity."