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RSA Adds Security Orchestration, Automation to SIEM Platform
RSA today rolled out an orchestration and automation tool for its SIEM product. It also reached a deal to acquire Fortscale, a behavioral analytics startup.
Dell EMC, VMware Top HCI Hardware, Software Revenue Rankings
Both of Dell Technologies’ brands come out on top of IDC’s latest quarterly tracker, which includes separate rankings for HCI branded products and hyperconverged software providers.
Rubrik Wants You to Write Data Management Apps on Its SaaS Platform
The platform’s open-API architecture allows developers to write applications for data policy, control, security, and deep intelligence.
Juniper Networks’ Security Strategy: Unify Everything, Keep it Open
Juniper Networks security team wants to unify threat detection, automated enforcement, and mitigation in a unified platform and integrate with other technology vendors to support non-Juniper gear.
Multi-Cloud Orchestrator Morpheus Data Adds Alibaba Cloud, Cisco SDN Support
The platform integrates with public and private cloud providers, and allows DevOps teams to deploy applications in minutes.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella ‘Embraces’ Cloud, Edge as the Future
Microsoft will form two new business units, one focused on end-user “experience and devices” and a second on cloud and AI.
EnSilo Malware Protection Gives Red Bull Security Team Wings
The endpoint security platform protected Red Bull from the WannaCry ransomware attack and helps the energy drink maker’s head of digital security sleep at night.
SPIFFE, SPIRE Join Cloud Native Computing Foundation Sandbox
The open source workload identity framework projects are modeled after similar systems at Google, Netflix, and Twitter.
VMware Boosts Cloud Management Automation, Promises Azure Support Soon
VMware added new cloud management automation capabilities to its data center software and said Microsoft Azure support is “very near.”
Dell EMC, Metaswitch Push Software Disaggregation With Composable Network Protocols
Metaswitch’s routing and control plane protocols run as applications on top of AT&T’s disaggregated network operating system. That dNOS platform this week moved to the open source community as DANOS.
VMware Buys Second Security Startup, E8 Security
The virtualization giant will add E8 Security’s user and entity behavior analytics technology to its digital workspace platform.
McAfee Drops New SOCs, Netskope Takes CASB Beyond Cloud Apps
McAfee opened new security operations centers in Plano, Texas, and Cork, Ireland. Also today Netskope expanded its cloud security platform to include web access.
Pivot3 Jumps Into Hybrid Cloud Game, Moves HCI Stack to AWS
The software uses a technology Pivot3 calls Intelligent Cloud Engine that extends policy-based management and automation to the cloud.
Data Center Network Equipment Revenue Hit $13.7B in 2017
Bare metal switch revenue was up 60 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2017. And it’s projected to reach $3.6 billion in 2022, with cloud deployments as the primary driver.
Pivotal Software Files for IPO
Pivotal Software today filed for an initial public offering — and at least partially answered the question about how Dell Technologies will pay down its debt.
Should Bug Bounty Programs Pay Hackers Millions to Find Bugs?
Netflix it the latest company taking its bug bounty payouts public with Bugcrowd. But there’s more to fixing security vulnerabilities than simply doling out cash.
Symantec Security Report: Cryptojacking Attacks Increased 8,500% in 2017
Cryptojacking exploded last year, according to Symantec’s latest annual security threat landscape report. It found detections of cryptocurrency coin miners grew by a whopping 8,500 percent in 2017.
Google Cloud Security Blitz Attacks Email Phishing, Improves Visibility
Google unleashed more than 20 cloud security updates including better visibility across cloud services and potential threats and beefed up security against email phishing attacks.
Microsoft and OCP Friends Push Open Hardware Security Standard
Microsoft is working with Intel, Facebook, and Google to implement Project Cerberus security architecture. It plans to contribute the open hardware security specs to OCP.
Dell EMC Takes on Cisco, Launches Open uCPE for SD-WAN
Dell EMC today rolled out an open universal CPE platform designed to support multiple virtual network functions and software-defined wide area networking.