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Oracle Security Makeover Highlights CASB, Identity Automation
The company calls its new security framework Trust Fabric and says it can help companies predict, prevent, and respond to threats using integrated technologies and automation.
Symantec to Cut Global Workforce Amid Declining Enterprise Security Sales
The layoffs will target about 900 employees and are part of a larger restructuring plan to save about $115 million annually.
Nutanix Boosts Its Cloud Stack With $165M Frame Acquisition
Adobe, Siemens, VMware, and Autodesk, are some of Frame’s customers using the infrastructure-agnostic platform to deliver apps from the cloud.
Fortinet CEO Cites 7-Figure SD-WAN Win on Q2 2018 Earnings Call
The security company’s impressive growth results boosted its stock and put it on track to beat its previous closing high.
Cisco-Google Hybrid Cloud Love Fest: Real Deal or Hype?
When the hybrid cloud product, based on Kubernetes, launches this month it will face stiff competition from other similar services, including Google’s own GKE On-Prem.
Cisco Buys Duo Security for $2.35 Billion
Acquiring the two-factor authentication startup boosts Cisco’s cloud security portfolio and its intent-based networking strategy.
AWS Cloud Share Slips as Competitors Claw at Its Lead
The worldwide IaaS market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016, according to Gartner.
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Eliminates Data Center Roller Coaster
The amusement park’s IT team selected Cohesity's hyperconverged appliance and software-defined storage after a run-off against Rubrik.
Awake Security CEO Jumped Ship at Cylance to Build a New Unicorn
Rahul Kashyap joins Awake from endpoint security company Cylance and says while endpoint has seen all the action over the past couple of years, “the network is where the opportunity lies.”
IBM Trials Blockchain Platform With Barclays, Citi
The company also scored a $140 million digital banking deal with Thai bank Krungsri.
Speedify Founders Got Tired of Battlefield Robots, So They Turned to SD-WAN
Business customers include news and entertainment companies, software developers, hardware providers, and network operators and mobile carriers.
Imperva Acquires Application Security Vendor Prevoty for $140M
Prevoty’s product uses runtime application self-protection (RASP), an emerging security technology that is built into an application and can detect and respond to attacks in real time.
Juniper Grows Software Biz in Q2, Posts 8% Net Revenue Decline
Software revenue wasn’t enough to push the company back to year-over-year growth. It reported net revenue of $1.2 billion for the second quarter, an 8-percent drop compared to last year.
Nation-States, Criminals Increasing Attacks on ERP Systems, DHS Warns
Threat researchers found a rise in attacks on widely-used enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications such as SAP and Oracle, which currently have a combined 9,000 known security vulnerabilities.
Tenable Could Raise $288M, Making It Largest Security IPO in 5 Years
While it’s not the first security firm to go public this year — Zscaler and Carbon Black also completed successful IPOs — at $288 million it would be the most profitable.
Rubrik’s Radar Tackles Ransomware With Machine Learning
Unlike traditional security platforms that target this type of malware from a threat prevention vantage point, the data protection and management company comes at it from a backup perspective.
Security Startups LoginRadius and Siemplify Score Millions More in Funding
Microsoft's venture fund, M12, is just one of the VC firms pouring money into security startups.
Google Cloud CEO: Enterprise Table Stakes and Cutting Edge
At the annual Google Next conference the company launched an integrated portfolio of cloud services that combine open source projects with Google’s cloud infrastructure and security services.
Gigamon Dives Deeper Into Security Space With Icebrg Acquisition
Gigamon will combine its network traffic visibility capabilities with Icebrg’s security platform and allow SOC teams to deploy new security technologies as “security applications” on top of it.
Xage Scores $12M Series A for Blockchain-Based IoT Security
The company’s platform uses blockchain to connect industrial IoT devices and synchronize and store credentials, certificates, policies, and data between edge and data center locations.