Living in a container-native world is not easy. Containers have a reputation for being a point of entry for security vulnerabilities for many organizations. In 2015, according to a research paper, over 40% of Docker images distributed through Docker Hub had high-risk vulnerabilities; at that time there were more than 95,000 container images hosted on […]
Report: Software Quality Issues Costing U.S. Companies $2.08 Trillion
A report published today by the Consortium for Information & Software Quality (CISQ) estimates poor software quality collectively cost companies in the U.S. an estimated $2.08 trillion in 2020. The report, co-sponsored by software quality and security tools provider Synopsys, attempts to calculate, at least theoretically, the cost of known software failures. The report identifies […]
Building an IaC Security and Governance Program Step-by-Step
Infrastructure as code (IaC) is undoubtedly changing how engineers approach the cloud. IaC, when coupled with dev tools and automation, opens up new avenues for infrastructure performance, scalability and, now, security. By embedding IaC security and compliance controls into your version control systems and CI/CD pipelines, you can start identifying and fixing errors earlier. But, […]
Why Service Meshes Are Security Tools
Are service meshes overhyped, or do they solve a real puzzle for enterprise IT systems? Service meshes are a relatively new technology, and many people have found it challenging to fit them into predefined tooling categories. That’s because service meshes have a wide variety of functionality, from load balancing to securing traffic. But service meshes […]
Veritas Looks to Reduce Data Protection Costs
Veritas has extended the capabilities of the company’s NetBackup software as part of an effort to reduce the total cost of data protection. Version 8.3 of NetBackup now includes Veritas Resiliency Platform (VRP), a disaster recovery tool, and CloudPoint, a tool for backing data up on a public cloud. All of these tools are part […]
Google Taps AMD for Confidential Computing Service
Google Cloud, at a Google Cloud Next 2020 Online event, announced it is making available in beta Confidential VMs, a new service that represents the cloud service provider’s first foray into the realm of confidential computing. Based on second-generation EPYC processors from AMD that provide access to an embedded Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) capability, Confidential […]
AIOps Greasing the Wheel of Digital Security amid COVID-19
Amid the most challenging era for business infrastructures and transformations, AIOps (AI for IT Operations) can help industries operating in the digital environment to be vigilant when it comes to network operations or the digital security measures. AIOps has the potential to significantly align well with the cybersecurity needs of a company. A cybersecurity department […]
Can NetOps and SecOps Finally Get Along?
For years, the very definition of NetOps and SecOps has involved friction and even contentious relationships that make their respective jobs more difficult and lessen their efficiency and effectiveness. Much of this conflict originates from having charters that are seemingly in opposition to each other. At the surface, NetOps stands for connectivity, openness, speed and […]
Commvault Extends Data Protection Alliance with Microsoft
Commvault and Microsoft are extending their existing relationship to integrate Commvault’s data protection software with Azure Blob Storage. Azure Blob Storage is a service based on object-based storage optimized for unstructured data. Commvault last year launched the Metallic software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, which provides a cloud-based approach to managing data protection, that runs on Azure. The […]
SonicWall Adds Multi-Gigabit Switches to SD-Branch Portfolio
SonicWall has added a line of multi-gigabit switches to its software-defined (SD)-branch offering that unifies the management of wireless access points and firewalls that include software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) capabilities. Dmitriy Ayrapetov, vice president of platform architecture for SonicWall, said the switches will replace a series of switches that SonicWall had been reselling from […]