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Cloudflare acquires Vectrix to expand Zero Trust SaaS security

We are excited to share that Vectrix has been acquired by Cloudflare!

Vectrix helps IT and security teams detect security issues across their SaaS applications. We look at both data and users in SaaS apps to alert teams to issues ranging from unauthorized user access and file exposure to misconfigurations and shadow IT.

We built Vectrix to solve a problem that terrified us as security engineers ourselves: how do we know if the SaaS apps we use have the right controls in place? Is our company data protected? SaaS tools make it easy to work with data and collaborate across organizations of any size, but that also makes them vulnerable.

The growing SaaS security problem

The past two years have accelerated SaaS adoption much faster than any of us could have imagined and without much input on how to secure this new business stack.

Google Workspace for collaboration. Microsoft Teams for communication. Workday for HR. Salesforce for customer relationship management. The list goes on.

With this new reliance on SaaS, IT and security teams are faced with a new set of problems like files and folders being made public on the Internet, external users joining private chat channels, or an Continue reading

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Adding a CASB to Cloudflare Zero Trust

Earlier today, Cloudflare announced that we have acquired Vectrix, a cloud-access security broker (CASB) company focused on solving the problem of control and visibility in the SaaS applications and public cloud providers that your team uses.

We are excited to welcome the Vectrix team and their technology to the Cloudflare Zero Trust product group. We don’t believe a CASB should be a point solution. Instead, the features of a CASB should be one component of a comprehensive Zero Trust deployment. Each piece of technology, CASB included, should work better together than they would as a standalone product.

We know that this migration is a journey for most customers. That’s true for our own team at Cloudflare, too. We’ve built our own Zero Trust platform to solve problems for customers at any stage of that journey.

Start by defending the resources you control

Several years ago, we protected the internal resources that Cloudflare employees needed by creating a private network with hardware appliances. We deployed applications in a data center and made them available to this network. Users inside the San Francisco office connected to a secure Wi-Fi network that placed them on the network.

For everyone else, we punched a Continue reading

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Sneak Peek At “Sapphire Rapids” Xeons In “Crossroads” Supercomputer

Managing an aging nuclear weapons stockpile requires a tremendous – and ever-increasing – amount of supercomputing performance, and the HPC system business the world over is focused on this as much as trying to crack the most difficult scientific, medical, and engineering problems. …

Sneak Peek At “Sapphire Rapids” Xeons In “Crossroads” Supercomputer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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HS016 Team Structure for Technology Teams

Discussing what might drives team structure in Enterprise IT.

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HS016 Team Structure for Technology Teams

Discussing what might drives team structure in Enterprise IT.

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What to Consider when Selecting a SASE Provider

Viable SASE options must support the new waves of technology, such as BYOD, IoT, UCaaS, and more, which all come with their own security and connectivity challenges.

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Why you need Tigera’s new active cloud-native application security

First-generation security solutions for cloud-native applications have been failing because they apply a legacy mindset where the focus is on vulnerability scanning instead of a holistic approach to threat detection, threat prevention, and remediation. Given that the attack surface of modern applications is much larger than in traditional apps, security teams are struggling to keep up and we’ve seen a spike in breaches.

To better protect cloud-native applications, we need solutions that focus on threat prevention by reducing the attack surface. With this foundation, we can then layer on threat detection and threat mitigation strategies.

I have exciting news to share on this front! Today, Tigera launched new capabilities in its Calico product line to help you address your most urgent cloud security needs. Before getting into a discussion about the features themselves, I’d like to talk about the driving force behind the changes, our thought process, and why we’re well-positioned to bring these to market.

A new runtime security model

To properly secure modern cloud-native applications, we need to use a modern architecture that aligns with them. At Tigera, we’ve created a model we call active cloud-native application runtime security. This model has three components:

• Threat prevention – Effectively Continue reading

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What is CCNP ENCOR

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Gartner: By 2025 half of enterprise IT spending will be for cloud

By 2025, 51% of IT spending by enterprise IT groups that can transition to cloud—application and infrastructure software, business process services, and system infrastructure—will shift to the cloud, according to Gartner. Accelerating levels of cloud adoption are expected as organizations respond to a new business and social dynamics, according to Michael Warrilow, research vice president at Gartner, and this is driving a faster rate of cloud shift than pre-COVID-19 forecasts predicted.To read this article in full, please click here

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Garter: By 2025 half of enterprise IT spending will be for cloud

By 2025, 51% of IT spending by enterprise IT groups that can transition to cloud—application and infrastructure software, business process services, and system infrastructure—will shift to the cloud, according to Gartner. Accelerating levels of cloud adoption are expected as organizations respond to a new business and social dynamics, according to Michael Warrilow, research vice president at Gartner, and this is driving a faster rate of cloud shift than pre-COVID-19 forecasts predicted.To read this article in full, please click here

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IPv6 Buzz 094: Measuring IPv6 Growth

IPv6 adoption is growing worldwide. On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, we discuss which countries are leading the way, what IPv6 adoption looks like among enterprises and service providers, and what it means for network engineers and architects.

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IPv6 Buzz 094: Measuring IPv6 Growth

IPv6 adoption is growing worldwide. On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, we discuss which countries are leading the way, what IPv6 adoption looks like among enterprises and service providers, and what it means for network engineers and architects.

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How We Built Preview Environments on Kubernetes and AWS

Romaric Philogène Romaric is CEO and co-founder of Qovery with more than 10 years of experience in site reliability engineering and software development. For two years at Qovery, we built a Qovery Engine. Environment On Qovery, every application and database belong to an environment. It is a logical entity that links all resources together. When turning on the Preview Environment feature, Qovery will duplicate an Continue reading

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Social Networks for Neighborhoods and Home Owners

Social media is the most powerful tool of the 21st century and people are connecting with each other on social media for different things. Whether it is for business, personal communication, dating or networking and communicating for any other reason, people use social media. So it is only fair that there are apps that allow neighbors to get in touch with each other. This may just become the new way to manage the neighborhood watch

Let’s take a look at some of the apps that can help you connect with your neighbors.

Nextdoor

Nextdoor is a social media platform for neighborhoods across the country. It allows you to quickly get in touch with your neighbors. You can post messages on neighborhood group boards, have private conversations, upload photos of suspicious activities or ask questions about city services and get answers from other residents. This app was created so that people could connect with each other locally without having to login in to other apps like Facebook or another social network that has all kinds of different content coming at you every second. This way it keeps things simple. All posts are tagged which means they show up only in your Continue reading

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Build Vagrant Boxes for Your Network Devices

One of the toughest hurdles to overcome when building your own virtual networking lab is the slog of downloading VM images for your favorite network devices and building Vagrant boxes¹ in case you want to use them with Vagrant or netlab.

You can find box-building recipes on the Internet – codingpackets.com has a dozen of them – but they tend to be a bit convoluted and a smidge hard-to-follow the first time you’re trying to build the boxes (trust me, I’ve been there).

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Build Vagrant Boxes for Your Network Devices with netsim-tools

One of the toughest hurdles to overcome when building your own virtual networking lab is the slog of downloading VM images for your favorite network devices and building Vagrant boxes¹ in case you want to use them with Vagrant or netsim-tools.

You can find box-building recipes on the Internet – codingpackets.com has a dozen of them – but they tend to be a bit convoluted and a smidge hard-to-follow the first time you’re trying to build the boxes (trust me, I’ve been there).

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Tech Job Market Still Smoking Hot, New Labor Report Stats Say

According to new jobs report, tech workers were among the beneficiaries of a hot US job market that saw strong national growth of 467,000 jobs in January and an unemployment rate of just 4%. Here's a drill down to what those numbers meant for IT workers.

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Tech Bytes: Getting Traditional Networks Cloud-Ready With Singtel (Sponsored)

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, we continue our conversation with sponsor Singtel on how to make your existing WAN communicate with cloud services more effectively. The traditional MPLS network lacks the flexibility to support modern cloud services, such as breaking out traffic for content inspection or security scanning. Our guest to help us understand how to get your traditional network more cloud-ready is Mark Seabrook, Global Solutions Manager at Singtel.

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Tech Bytes: Getting Traditional Networks Cloud-Ready With Singtel (Sponsored)

Today on the Tech Bytes podcast, we continue our conversation with sponsor Singtel on how to make your existing WAN communicate with cloud services more effectively. The traditional MPLS network lacks the flexibility to support modern cloud services, such as breaking out traffic for content inspection or security scanning. Our guest to help us understand how to get your traditional network more cloud-ready is Mark Seabrook, Global Solutions Manager at Singtel.

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