staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud

Author: Veronica Haggar

  • Ascend.io Named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor in Enterprise AI Operationalization and Engineering

    The Ascend Unified Data Engineering Platform Recognized for Its Ability to Significantly Improve Data Engineering Productivity With End-to-End Visibility of Data Pipelines

    Palo Ato, CA, May 18, 2021 – Ascend.io, the data engineering company, today announced it has been named a 2021 Gartner Cool Vendor in the “Cool Vendors in Enterprise AI Operationalization and Engineering”1 report. The cloud-native Ascend Unified Data Engineering Platform significantly accelerates the speed at which data teams can build and operationalize data pipelines across distributed data ecosystems. As cited in the Gartner report, “building a data foundation that enables data and analytics leaders to unify existing data foundations and integrate new ones is at the core of any successful AI strategy.”

    Gartner research found that more than half of successful AI pilots never make it to the deployment stage. As a result, many data and analytics leaders today are struggling to capture value from their AI investments. To overcome these challenges, data and analytics leaders must evaluate emerging vendors to build enterprise-grade AI platforms or solutions.

    “We believe this recognition as a Gartner Cool Vendor is a tremendous honor and further validates what we are seeing in the market. Data pipelines are the backbone of AI and analytics initiatives, but most organizations lack sufficient data engineering resources, creating significant backlogs and preventing data teams from utilizing critical data,” said Sean Knapp, CEO and founder of Ascend.io. “Our platform’s self-service data pipelines dynamically adapt to changes in data, code, and environment, which means customers can rapidly iterate on ETLT to generate greater value from their AI and analytics initiatives than ever before.”

    The Gartner report explains that Ascend’s declarative programming delivers on the promise of speed, where the logic of computation is expressed without having to describe the underlying control flow. Ascend.io users also benefit from the platform’s “flex-code” approach, offering low-code functionality with higher-code options for advanced use cases. The report adds that Ascend’s DataAware™ intelligence tracks every piece of data movement and processing, code changes, and user activity, thus ensuring data pipelines run at optimal efficiency and adhere to governance requirements.

    Click here to download a complimentary copy of the 2021 Gartner Cool Vendors in Enterprise AI Operationalization and Engineering report.

    Additional Resources

    1Gartner, “Cool Vendors in Enterprise AI Operationalization and Engineering,” Chirag Dekate, Farhan Choudhary, Soyeb Barot, Erick Brethenoux, Arun Chandrasekaran, Robert Thanaraj, Georgia O’Callaghan, 27 April 2021

    Gartner Disclaimer

    Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in our research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

    About Ascend.io

    Ascend.io, the data engineering company, provides the flex-code data platform for autonomous pipelines that frees data teams to spend more time innovating. Data pipelines are the backbone of modern data systems. However, data engineers are overburdened with building and maintaining brittle pipelines, which creates a backlog that prevents data analysts and data scientists from accessing critical information. The Ascend Unified Data Engineering Platform removes these bottlenecks and enables teams to create self-service data pipelines that dynamically adapt to changes in data, code, and environment. In a radical departure from data orchestration solutions that require excessive coding, Ascend democratizes data engineering with 10x faster build velocity, automated maintenance, and 95% less code. DataAware™ intelligence understands and tracks every piece of data, enabling data pipelines to run at optimal efficiency with integrated lineage tracking, auditability, and governance. The cloud-native platform is available fully hosted, as well as for private cloud deployments on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform. Ascend.io accelerates the journey from prototype to production and helps leading organizations achieve faster time to value.

  • BigID Expands Access Intelligence for Cloud and Data Centers

    New marketplace app drives ML-based access intelligence across the enterprise

    New York, NY and Tel Aviv, Israel, May 18, 2021 — BigID, the leading data intelligence and management platform for privacy, protection, and perspective, today announced the BigID Access Intelligence App available through its BigID App Marketplace, designed to help organizations manage and reduce risk on their overexposed and over privileged crown jewel data.

    Built on BigID’s extensible app framework, the Access Intelligence App gives organizations next generation file access management for their most sensitive and critical data:

    • Identify high risk and overexposed users and data

    • Manage risk by access types, direct users, internal and external users across Office 365, GDrive, AWS S3, and more

    • Identify and remediate high-risk data access issues and take action for enforcement

    Customers can now get the Access Intelligence App on BigID’s App Marketplace—and extend their data security, privacy, and governance capabilities all in one platform.

    More Resources:

    About BigID

    BigID’s data intelligence platform enables organizations to know their enterprise data and take

    action for privacy, protection, and perspective. Customers deploy BigID to proactively discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their regulated, sensitive, and personal data across their data landscape. BigID has been recognized for its data intelligence innovation as a 2019 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, named to the 2020 Forbes Cloud 100, a Business Insider 2020 AI Startup to Watch, and an RSA Innovation Sandbox winner. Find out more at http://bigid.com

  • BigID Expands Security Controls for Cloud and Data Center with Remediation

    New marketplace app streamlines remediation in cloud, unstructured and structured data

    New York, NY and Tel Aviv, Israel, May 18, 2021 — BigID, the leading data intelligence and management platform for privacy, protection, and perspective, today announced the BigID Data Remediation App available through its BigID App Marketplace, designed to automate and orchestrate data remediation across all types of data.

    Built on BigID’s extensible app framework, the data remediation app empowers organizations to take control of their data, reduce risk, and easily manage remediation activity such as deletion, archiving, quarantining, and more:

    • Remediate high risk data based on context, ML-driven insight, and policy
    • Delegate remediation actions to the right business users
    • Prioritize task management based on sensitivity and urgency
    • Track remediation completions across teams and individuals
    • Take action on all data across the enterprise environment

    Customers can now get the Data Remediation App on BigID’s App Marketplace — and extend their data security, privacy, and governance capabilities all in one platform.

    More Resources:

    About BigID

    BigID’s data intelligence platform enables organizations to know their enterprise data and take action for privacy, protection, and perspective. Customers deploy BigID to proactively discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their regulated, sensitive, and personal data across their data landscape. BigID has been recognized for its data intelligence innovation as a 2019 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, named to the 2020 Forbes Cloud 100, a Business Insider 2020 AI Startup to Watch, and an RSA Innovation Sandbox winner. Find out more at http://bigid.com

  • BigID Expands Data Management with Retention for the Cloud and Data Centers

    New marketplace app simplifies data retention for cloud-based, unstructured and structured data

    New York, NY and Tel Aviv, Israel, May 18, 2021 — BigID, the leading data intelligence and management platform for privacy, protection, and perspective, today announced the BigID Data Retention App available through its BigID App Marketplace, designed to enable and automate policy-driven retention management across the enterprise.

    Built on BigID’s extensible app framework, the data retention app empowers organizations to manage data retention across all of their data to reduce risk, achieve compliance, and automate data lifecycle management:

    • Manage retention policies, findings, and violations are managed in one interface

    • Leverage out of the box retention policies, or build your own, to manage

    what data to keep, for how long, and what to delete

    • Apply data retention policies consistently across structured and unstructured data

    Customers can now get the Data Retention App on BigID’s App Marketplace—and extend their data security, privacy, and governance capabilities all in one platform.

    More Resources:

    About BigID

    BigID’s data intelligence platform enables organizations to know their enterprise data and take

    action for privacy, protection, and perspective. Customers deploy BigID to proactively discover, manage, protect, and get more value from their regulated, sensitive, and personal data across their data landscape. BigID has been recognized for its data intelligence innovation as a 2019 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, named to the 2020 Forbes Cloud 100, a Business Insider 2020 AI Startup to Watch, and an RSA Innovation Sandbox winner. Find out more at http://bigid.com

  • McAfee Breaks Through XDR Market With SASE-Enriched Threat Protection to Proactively Stop Targeted Attacks

    MVISION XDR automates security investigation and response processes with actionable threat insights harnessed from deeply integrated cloud data sources

    SAN JOSE, CA, May 18, 2021 — McAfee Corp. (Nasdaq: MCFE), the device to cloud cybersecurity company, today announced significant expansion of its MVISION Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solution by correlating the extensive telemetry of McAfee’s endpoint security solution, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solution, and threat intelligence solution powered by MVISION Insights. These integrations protect organizations against the most advanced threats while simplifying security operations with unified control and visibility from device to cloud.

    This timing is pivotal, as security operation centers (SOC) are dealing with increasingly sophisticated threat actors targeting remote employees and cloud services using more evasive techniques across expanding digital attack surfaces – making adversaries harder to spot with traditional security controls. A recent survey of IT security professionals by The Enterprise Strategy Group found that the cloud poses the biggest gap for most organizations’ threat detection and response capabilities. Unsurprisingly, according to Ernst & Young, about six in 10 companies have faced a material or significant incident in the past twelve months, however, only 26 percent of companies say their SOC identified their most significant breach.

    McAfee MVISION XDR is the first proactive, data-aware, and open XDR platform designed to help organizations stop these sophisticated, multi-vector attacks with unified threat detection and response that connects and fuses disparate endpoint, network, and cloud data sources. Starting today, XDR incidents are enriched with actionable threat insights from McAfee’s SASE solution, which detects cloud threats that occur within web and SaaS environments. It improves situational awareness, drives better and faster decisions, and elevates the SOC to a new level of efficiency and effectiveness.

    “SOC processes involve siloed monitoring and detection tools that generate an overwhelming volume of security alerts that often require manual effort to sort through and force analysts to take a reactive posture,” said Shishir Singh, chief product officer of McAfee’s enterprise business. “AI Guided Investigations serves as the catalyst allowing analysts to more effortlessly orchestrate smart and efficient workflows. MVISION XDR delivers end-to-end threat visibility across all attack surfaces, greater context, and situational awareness using automation to streamline operations so organizations can preempt an attack rather than scramble to contain a breach.”

    MVISION XDR capabilities include:

    • Advanced threat detection: Automatically correlates attack telemetry from multiple data sources including endpoint detection and response (EDR), cloud access security broker (CASB), data loss prevention (DLP) and secure web gateway (SWG), and fuses with active threat campaigns to reveal the full picture of an adversary’s work across the entire attack lifecycle.
    • Automated threat management tasks: By combining the latest machine learning techniques with human analysis, MVISION XDR simplifies analyst workflows across complex threat campaigns with AI-guided investigations and MITRE ATT&CK™ mapping to accelerate investigation and move more rapidly to resolution.
    • Proactive threat hunting and optimized response: The integration of MVISION Insights with MVISION Cloud Security Advisor delivers actionable intelligence to security teams through correlated security posture scoring across all vectors – from endpoints to the cloud – that helps them strengthen security hygiene and advance investigations and analysis with critical context on threat groups.

    “MVISION XDR is designed with the SOC experience in mind,” said Ariel, Banco Delta (Panama). “It can grant analysts greater control, along with a more comprehensive view of threat context beyond the endpoint – saving time and allowing us to act more deliberately with a better understanding of threats – before they occur or incur damage.”

    “Threat detection doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Without weaving together forensic data from endpoint and non-endpoint sources to paint the bigger picture kill chain, it’s incredibly difficult to see attackers traversing your environment and answer the investigative questions that matter to SOC teams,” said Chris Kissel, research director, IDC. “XDR is the next logical step from EDR. McAfee’s XDR has significant potential to achieve what security analytics tools have largely been unable to offer by natively integrating more types of telemetry with threat intel into a single user experience for detection and response.”

    The new capabilities in MVISION XDR are available today. Attendees of RSA Conference can register here for McAfee’s virtual booth.

    Resources:

    About McAfee

    McAfee is the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company. Inspired by the power of working together, McAfee creates consumer and business solutions that make the world a safer place. www.mcafee.com.

    McAfee technologies’ features and benefits depend on system configuration and may require enabled hardware, software, or service activation. No computer system can be absolutely secure. McAfee® and the McAfee logo are trademarks of McAfee, LLC or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Other marks and brands may be claimed as the property of others.

  • Kentik Brings Network Observability to Public Cloud Environments

    Company Tackles Top Three Cloud Issues for Enterprises: Visibility, Performance and Cost Control

    San Francisco, CA, May 18, 2021 — Kentik®, the network observability company, today announced the launch of Kentik Cloud, a new product suite for public cloud environments. As part of the Kentik platform, Kentik Cloud fuses traffic and telemetry data with business, security, internet and cloud metadata to give enterprise customers increased visibility, improved performance and better cost control of the networking that connects their entire cloud environment.

    Cloud-forward companies like Box, eBay, Dropbox, IBM, Kayak and Zoom use Kentik to plan, run and fix their networks. The launch of Kentik Cloud extends observability to public clouds, putting forward the industry’s most comprehensive way to visualize cloud network performance, troubleshoot connectivity issues, control and reduce traffic costs, optimize service delivery, migrate apps to the cloud and secure cloud environments from network attacks.

    In a recent article, Major League Baseball’s Principal Network Automation Engineer Jeremy Schulman discussed how Kentik helps the sports league see “how much traffic is going in and out of various projects in the cloud. [Kentik] is actually showing you a visual representation of how your physical equipment connects via those virtual private connections in the cloud. It also gives us information like latency, throughput, and jitter, across on-prem, through the cloud, and back on-prem.”

    Kentik Cloud expands on the company’s existing cloud monitoring capabilities with four core new feature sets:

    • Observation Deck™: an integrated user experience with configurable widgets that lets users put their most important data and insights front and center, and quickly answer any question about the network, using all types of network telemetry and contextual data.
    • Kentik Map: an end-to-end visual depiction of virtual private clouds (VPCs), on-premises networks and the connectivity between them to see traffic to and through the cloud network elements for faster troubleshooting. This feature also brings together AWS CloudWatch and infrastructure health metrics.
    • Cloud Performance Monitor: a feature that automatically detects the most important network paths used inside cloud networks and interconnections to on-prem networks. Proactive tests measure latency, jitter and packet loss data, and interface with Kentik’s large network of public cloud agents for easy performance monitoring of internet and multi-cloud services.
    • Cloud Traffic Cost Explorer: a tool to automatically calculate actual costs of cloud network traffic over time, as well as cost projections by group and account, helping to lower data transfer costs by quickly finding traffic inefficiencies.

    “We built the Kentik Cloud product suite because we saw our customers struggling to run cloud networks with the precision and control that they’re accustomed to,” said Christoph Pfister, Chief Product Officer at Kentik. “Most cloud monitoring tools don’t focus on infrastructure or can’t see beyond a single cloud environment — and the old networking tools simply don’t keep up with the pace of CloudOps, if they even understand cloud networking constructs or VPC Flow Logs. With Kentik Cloud, our customers can manage the performance, visibility and costs of their cloud networking, at-scale and all within one solution.”

    For more information on Kentik Cloud, sign up to attend the next Kentik Virtual Design Clinic on Wednesday, June 23, 2021.

    ABOUT KENTIK
    Kentik is the network observability company. Our platform is a must-have for the network front line, whether digital business, corporate IT or service provider. Network professionals turn to the Kentik Network Observability Cloud to plan, run and fix any network, relying on our infinite granularity, AI-driven insights and insanely fast search. Kentik makes sense of network, cloud, host and container flow, internet routing, performance tests and network metrics. We show networking pros what they need to know about their network performance, health and security to make their business-critical services shine. Networks power the world’s most valuable companies, and those companies trust Kentik for network observability. Market leaders like IBM, Box and Zoom rely on Kentik for network observability. Visit us at kentik.com and follow us at @kentikinc.

  • Industry’s First Enterprise-Grade Distribution of the Popular CNCF Project Crossplane Arrives, Bringing the Kubernetes-Powered Universal Control Plane Approach to Platform Teams Everywhere

    Seattle, WA, May 18, 2021 — The era of control planes starts today. Upbound, the company that created the open source Crossplane project and donated it to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), today launched the first enterprise-grade distribution of Crossplane. The distribution, called Upbound Universal Crossplane (UXP), is designed to help enterprises adopt a universal control plane, moving beyond infrastructure as code to significantly increase automation, reduce costs and enable developer self-service to accelerate the pace of innovation.

    UXP is the first open source, vendor-supported distribution of Crossplane with enterprise-grade support. Existing Crossplane deployments can easily upgrade to UXP and take advantage of its features, including connecting to Upbound Cloud for simplified management and real-time observability. UXP is available today via GitHub and numerous marketplaces, including AWS Marketplace and OperatorHub, with other marketplace listings coming soon.

    Upbound Announces GA of Upbound Cloud and Upbound Registry

    Upbound today also announced the general availability of Upbound Cloud and Upbound Registry products, after a year in public preview. To reach this milestone Upbound has been working with current enterprise customers in diverse sectors, including banking and financial services, technology and electronics, internet and software, public sector, and retail.

    An early adopter of Upbound is Plot.ly. The company is in the process of migrating its application configuration stack and workflows from HashiCorp’s Terraform to UXP to take advantage of increased automation and API-centric integration with their services.

    “We see control planes as the future of infrastructure automation,” said Jack Parmer, CEO and co-founder at Plot.ly. “We chose Upbound as our partner in this important transformation because they created Crossplane and offer enterprise-grade products and services that will help us accelerate time to market.”

    Upbound Cloud offers a single point of control for both platform teams and application teams. Platform teams can easily create and manage control planes that connect to all infrastructure they are managing across different cloud and infrastructure vendors. The control planes enable application teams to self-service infrastructure, while ensuring that all security, compliance, and cost controls are enforced. The Upbound Cloud console enables platform teams to easily manage access, apply security policies and inspect infrastructure for security and configuration risks. It supports self-hosted and cloud-hosted deployments of UXP, offering flexibility to enterprises with differing security and compliance requirements.

    Upbound Registry is a free community library for teams adopting Crossplane and UXP. Users can discover, publish and share Crossplane providers and configurations, and they can easily install them into their UXP deployments with a free Upbound account. Upbound Enterprise customers unlock unlimited private listings, making Upbound Registry the best place to centrally manage infrastructure configuration across their entire organization.

    “Crossplane is the modern, cloud-native alternative to Infrastructure as Code, and it’s the future of managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments at scale,” said Bassam Tabbara, founder and CEO of Upbound. “Today, we’re giving enterprises the products and services they need to move off of managing templates and move to API-centric control planes. We’ve been working with enterprise customers and the community for a few years now, and we’re excited to bring Upbound to the enterprise market.”

    Upbound Subscription Options

    Upbound’s product offerings are available via a subscription model that currently has two tiers. The first is a free tier catering to individuals getting started with control planes and who need tooling to debug and share their Crossplane providers and configurations. It includes full access to UXP, the ability to publish public listings in Upbound Registry, and limited access to Upbound Cloud.

    Upbound’s enterprise tier unlocks additional value across the product portfolio. Platform teams can manage unlimited control planes in Upbound Cloud, create unlimited private listings in Upbound Registry, and get access to 24/7 support, prioritized bug fixes, implementation services, onboarding and training.

    “We’re glad someone is finally building something like Upbound Cloud, as it offers us a managed service backing an open source API to provision and manage infrastructure,” said Jan Willies, Platform Architect at Accenture. “Cloud infrastructure was missing a common API, and it’s something we’ve seen a huge demand for. We’re excited about Upbound Cloud, as it has the potential to simplify how our software developers manage the life cycle of our application portfolios, allowing us to innovate more quickly.”

    ***Get started today by creating your free Upbound account ***

    Building on Crossplane Project Momentum

    Today’s launch comes on the heels of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe where cloud-native and industry leaders spoke at Crossplane Community Day about converging on the approach of using Kubernetes to do more than just manage containers. Enterprises are looking for a comprehensive cloud-native operating model which modernizes infrastructure management and accelerates development velocity through safe and automated infrastructure self-service.

    Crossplane was the first open source project to recognize Kubernetes for its control plane, and not as a container orchestrator, and has been leading the effort to democratize control plane technology in the cloud-native community. Crossplane was released in 2018 and has reached v1.0 maturity within 2 years. Tabbara wrote about the universal control plane as “Kubernetes’ true superpower” recently. The project is hosted at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and is currently in the process of moving to incubation status with tremendous support from the community. Crossplane providers are available for AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, VMware, Equinix and many others. Crossplane plays a critical role in enabling the GitOps operating model that is seeing wide adoption in the cloud-native community.

    About Upbound.io

    Upbound is the creator of open source Crossplane—the modern, cloud-native alternative to Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Our mission is to enable a new era of infrastructure management that is automated, reliable, efficient and empowers application teams to self-service and deliver software faster, accelerating innovation. Upbound is a leader in the Kubernetes ecosystem and a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Follow Upbound on Twitter and GitHub.

  • Pathlock Unleashes New Features in Latest Version of Access Orchestration Platform

    First to Combine Control Over Access, Data, and Security of Critical Business Applications in a Single Interface

    New York, NY, May 18, 2021 – Pathlock, the leading provider of unified access orchestration, today announced the preview availability of version 5.0 of its flagship solution, which enforces 360-degree protection enabling zero trust for more than 140 enterprise applications. The platform is the first to combine access governance, data loss prevention and user behavior analytics enabling security, finance, IT, and GRC teams to secure critical business applications against insider threats and efficiently meet their ever-growing regulatory compliance obligations. Pathlock will be providing an overview of this preview release in a webinar hosted on Wednesday, June 9 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time – interested parties can register here.

    Aggressive digital transformation initiatives, the exponential growth of cloud computing and a largely remote workforce have made business applications housing sensitive financial, customer and employee data the single biggest source of risk for large enterprises. Competitive solutions typically focus on a single application or use case, forcing companies to deploy multiple point solutions which drives up cost, reduces visibility and makes it particularly challenging to implement security and compliance policies consistently across multiple disparate systems. With the launch of their new platform, Pathlock aims to revolutionize the way enterprises secure their most valuable information assets by allowing organizations to continuously monitor for access, data and security risks and create automated incident response plans for all core business applications.

    “Today, security teams often overlook business critical applications such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, and NetSuite when it comes to threat protection,” said Larsen Lockwood-Hall, Pathlock’s Chief Product Officer. “With more and more companies moving these applications to the cloud to support today’s remote work environment, the traditional network security perimeter has shifted and it is becoming increasingly difficult to monitor user activity across multiple applications, track key risk indicators and implement proactive response measures. With the launch of this new platform, we are uniquely positioned to help organizations meet this challenge head on.”

    Pathlock boasts unified control of all policies related to information security, governance, risk, and compliance with hundreds of pre-built rules that address the requirements of SOX, GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA. The latest version ensures complete coverage of key use cases for business critical applications in one package. This includes user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA), Access Governance, Segregation of Duties, Continuous Controls Monitoring, Emergency Access Management, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Users are able to rationalize technology spend with a single platform, saving millions of dollars in annual license and maintenance costs, improving visibility and ensuring that policies are consistently applied across all critical applications.

    The list of industry leading benefits available in the latest version of the platform include:

    • Centralization: Pathlock covers all key use cases related to financial control monitoring, data loss prevention, application security, identity and access control and compliance reporting all in one platform with a single implementation.
    • Control and Visibility: Users are given insight into 140+ business applications through a single platform, providing centralized visibility and management of critical applications.
    • Seamless Integration: Pathlock integrates seamlessly and adds value to existing identity solutions like Azure AD, Okta and SailPoint; SIEM and SOAR solutions from Splunk, LogRhythm, and IBM and workflow solutions like ServiceNow.

    “At Pathlock, we are enabling secure digital transformation by providing protection to cloud applications and supporting multi-ERP approaches that are prevalent in the current remote-first work culture,” said Anand Adya, Founder and CEO at Pathlock. “Our recent rebrand, and newly appointed leadership, including board member Rick Howard, supports the product-led strategy to expand coverage and cement Pathlock as the market leader in safeguarding business applications. Our strategy is firmly aligned with customer, prospect, and analyst feedback about the need for a comprehensive and easy to deploy solution to tackle the challenges in today’s complex environment.”

    Pathlock continues to build momentum in the access control space with net new bookings in Q1 of 2021 up 158% from Q1 of 2020. Additionally, the company closed strategic deals with three Fortune 100 enterprises in Q1 of 2021 alone. For more information on Pathlock’s modular pricing model, please visit https://pathlock.com/product-feature-comparison/.

  • Introducing CockroachDB 21.1: The World’s Most Powerful Global Database is Now Also the Easiest

    Leading cloud-native SQL database makes managing data anywhere in the world as simple as a single SQL command

    New York, May 18, 2021 — Cockroach Labs today announced the release of CockroachDB 21.1, a substantial leap forward for the industry-leading distributed SQL database. CockroachDB already has a reputation as the world’s most powerful global database, and with this latest release it’s now also the easiest. CockroachDB 21.1 makes it dead simple to tie data to specific locations anywhere in the world within a single database — ensuring regulatory compliance, reducing latency, and improving fault-tolerance. CockroachDB 21.1 enables any developer — no matter their expertise — to start small, scale fast, and go global effortlessly.

    Today’s users demand an always-on, near-instantaneous experience, no matter where they are on the planet, and deployment of a database across multiple regions lets you meet these  requirements. However, this has historically been incredibly costly or an operational nightmare.  With its unique architecture and built-in ability to manage the location of data, CockroachDB has eliminated the majority of the challenges of distributing data anywhere in the world.

    The ability to tie data to a location is a capability used by hundreds of CockroachDB customers, and now using that feature has been reduced to a few simple SQL statements. This new approach makes geo-locating data accessible in seconds to any developer who can write SQL. Deploying data globally also now requires no forethought—even if you start with a single region, at any time you can simply add CockroachDB nodes to another location (available instantly in the cloud) and activate these features without downtime, schema changes, or manual sharding of any kind. You can now deliver a fast and reliable user experience to anyone in the world with a single SQL statement.

    “Our mission has always been to make building truly breakthrough applications easy for any developer. Too many development teams start on a platform that’s merely ‘good enough,’ and are then either hamstrung when their business grows, or have to suffer the pain of a migration,” said Spencer Kimball, CEO and cofounder at Cockroach Labs. “Your aspirations should not be constrained by your infrastructure. With CockroachDB 21.1, anyone can build their application from the beginning on a database that can take them from one cloud region to a global footprint, from three people in a garage to a multi-million dollar business.”

    CockroachDB dramatically reduces operational complexity and makes it easy to deliver fast, reliable customer experiences by:

    • minimizing transactional latency by placing data physically close to end users,
    • eliminating outages with redundancies that can survives entire region or cloud failures,
    • supporting data privacy compliance by storing data within local boundaries,
    • and delivering a multi-cloud/hybrid-cloud deployment to eliminate risk and costs of an “all-in” single cloud approach

    From Fortune 500 companies to five person startups, companies across the globe in every industry are using CockroachDB to transform their business. For example, DoorDash is using CockroachDB to handle large activity spikes within particular regions while maintaining consistent transactions. SpaceX uses CockroachDB to manage and store operational data for the largest constellation of satellites in the world. Other customers include Comcast, eBay, Norfolk Southern, LaunchDarkly, Lush, Tokopedia, and Mythical Games.

    Additional updates in CockroachDB 21.1 enable developers to:

    The easiest way to run CockroachDB is with CockroachCloud, our database-as-a-service available instantly on multiple cloud providers around the world. Get started for free today here.

    About Cockroach Labs
    Cockroach Labs is the creator of CockroachDB, the most highly evolved cloud-native, distributed SQL database on the planet. Helping companies of all sizes—and the apps they develop— to scale fast, survive anything, and thrive everywhere. CockroachDB is in use at some of the world’s largest enterprises across all industries, including Equifax, Bose, Comcast and some of the largest companies in banking, retail, and media. Headquartered in New York City, Cockroach Labs is backed by Altimeter, Benchmark, Greenoaks, GV, Firstmark, Index Ventures, Lone Pine, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global, and Workbench. For more information, please visit cockroachlabs.com

  • Wisetail and Intertek NTA Partner to Launch Cybersecurity Awareness Training

    Online learning modules cover a range of important information security topics, including password security, social engineering and email usage 

    Bozeman, MT,  May 18, 2021 — Wisetail, a leader in learning engagement and management software that builds companies into communities, and Intertek NTA, a leading Total Quality Assurance provider of information security solutions, today announced the availability of their joint Cybersecurity Awareness Training program. These training sessions are tailored to give staff members the knowledge and ability to better protect organizational assets and their own information from cyber criminals with course content rooted in stories and anecdotes from Intertek NTA’s more than 25 years in the industry.

    In our technology-dependent world, cybersecurity training is a crucial service that every company should offer its employees. Despite the increase in ransomware and other external cyberthreats over the past year, research shows that human error is still the cause of 95 percent of cybersecurity breaches—a number that can be lowered with the use of Wisetail and Intertek NTA’s new eLearning training program.

    Intertek NTA have traditionally offered the Cybersecurity Awareness Training program in a face-to-face classroom setting, but with the increase in remote working, organizations Intertek NTA serves have not been able to execute classroom-led training. To accommodate the new normal of remote work, Wisetail and Intertek NTA teamed up to augment the traditional in-class training to ensure customers are still able to provide the critical training to their employees that is required to stay safe in the digital world.

    The eLearning training can be delivered over a number of remote working/collaboration platforms, including the Wisetail LMS/LXP software. It can also be purchased via the Wisetail Shopify Library or can be delivered via SCORM to a learning portal.

    Wisetail and Intertek NTA’s Cybersecurity Awareness Training package consists of the following components as standard. Modules are flexible depending on organizational policy and the desired outcome of the exercise.

    • Why is Cybersecurity Important?

    • How Organizations are Hacked

    • Password Best Practices

    • Social Engineering

    • Internet and Email Usage

    • Social Media

    • Using Public Wi-Fi

    “We’re very excited to announce the Cybersecurity Awareness Training alongside our partners at Intertek NTA,” said Glenn Veil, CTO and VP of engineering at Wisetail. “Most people assume that cyber attacks can only be avoided with expensive, high-tech security software, and while those kinds of tools are very useful (and essential), the truth is that people have more power than they think. Just by doing little things like changing passwords regularly or knowing the signs of a phishing scam, every employee can help take control of their company’s cybersecurity and keep hackers one step behind.”

    “Intertek NTA is passionate about helping our clients improve their cybersecurity,” said Tony Walker, connected world global business line leader at Intertek. “Our Cybersecurity Awareness Training is built from insights into the role of human error in cybersecurity failures that we’ve learned from penetration testing and social engineering engagements over many years. We’re delighted to be partnering with Wisetail’s online platform to bring this vital training to many more customers across the globe.”

    For more than 30 years, Intertek has been a leader in cybersecurity, with over 180 cybersecurity staff in 6 offices across North America, Europe and Asia.  Intertek’s organization focused cybersecurity services cover infrastructure and application penetration testing, including “Red Teaming”, Social engineering, staff training and forensics services, as well as auditing and verification to standards such as ISO 27001. Sectors served include governmental, finance, insurance, professional services, as well as retail and manufacturing. In addition to cybersecurity services for organizations, Intertek is also a leading tester for ICT products to standards, – including Common Criteria (ISO 15408), FIPS 140-2 /3, UL2900 and IEC-62443, as well as consumer IoT products with its Cyber Assured mark.

    To learn how to add the Cybersecurity Awareness Training to your organization, visit this page: https://www.intertek.com/cybersecurity/awareness/

    About Intertek

    Total Quality. Assured.

    Intertek is a leading Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide. Our network of more than 1,000 laboratories in more than 100 countries delivers innovative and bespoke Assurance, Testing, Inspection and Certification solutions for our customers’ operations and supply chains. Intertek Total Quality Assurance expertise, delivered consistently, with precision, pace and passion, enabling our customers to power ahead safely.

    intertek.com

    About Wisetail

    Wisetail, an Intertek company, is a learning and development leader with a different vision — to build companies into communities. We support and strengthen every learner to ensure your brand promise is delivered to your people and the world. We view learning and engagement as the path to a stronger culture and a greater brand — and as vital to building those communities of employees, customers and partners. We’ve developed solutions for limitless engagement opportunities of blended learning at its best and insights that drive results. Wisetail is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana. To learn more visit www.wisetail.com, or follow Wisetail @Wisetail or on LinkedIn.