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Ubisecure IDaaS: Solve complex identity management challenges

Ubisecure launched its new IDaaS product to help developers take applications to market faster with streamlined and secure digital identity functionality in web, mobile and single page applications. The new IDaaS offering is API-based which allows businesses to solve complex identity management challenges. APIs provide on-demand expertise that would otherwise require resource-heavy in-house development. By leveraging APIs, organisations are essentially plugging in standards-based, customisable functionality to their existing technology, with a wealth of knowledge and … More →

Odo Security unveils agentless, cloud-native platform that allows secure access management

Odo Security unveiled an agentless, cloud-native platform that allows IT and DevOps engineers to easily manage secure access to any application, server, database and environment located on-premises or in the cloud. “According to our primary research, the chief inhibitor to the adoption of effective access controls is an inability to integrate solutions with essential IT investments,” noted Steve Brasen, research director with analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates. “Odo Security has developed an elegant approach that … More →

New investment round sets Acronis valuation to over 1 billion dollars

Acronis announced a $147 million investment round led by Goldman Sachs. The investment round sets the valuation of the company to over one billion dollars and enables Acronis to expand its engineering team in Singapore, Bulgaria and Arizona, build additional data centers, and grow through acquisitions. Additionally, Acronis will use the capital to accelerate the business growth in North America in partnership with Acronis SCS, an independent software vendor and distributor for the public sector. … More →

nCipher launches nShield as a Service, a cloud-based hardware security module

nCipher Security, an Entrust Datacard company, announces nShield as a Service, a cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) service that allows organisations to protect sensitive data and applications and helps meet compliance mandates – simply and efficiently, using on-demand cryptography. “Organisations embracing cloud-first strategies require cloud-first encryption,” said Peter Galvin, vice president of strategy, nCipher Security. “This means remote, automated management at scale, and flexible access control both in the cloud and onsite. nShield as a … More →

Oracle’s data management portfolio innovations help businesses protect and capitalize on their data

Oracle announced major new innovations across its data management portfolio that make it easier, faster, and safer for customers to run their mission critical workloads everywhere – in the cloud, on-premises, and via Exadata Cloud at Customer. Oracle continues to deliver the world’s most comprehensive data management solutions, including the industry’s first and only self-driving database, Oracle Autonomous Database. “Oracle’s passion in helping customers solve tomorrow’s problems through technological investment and innovation is unparalleled,” said … More →

ManageEngine Applications Manager now supports performance monitoring for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

ManageEngine, the IT management division of Zoho Corporation, announced that Applications Manager, its server, cloud and application performance monitoring solution, now supports performance monitoring for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This enables IT operations teams to gain visibility into the health and performance of the OCI Compute service. Additionally, Applications Manager virtualization monitoring module now supports Oracle VM. ManageEngine is demonstrating the latest capabilities of Applications Manager in booth 1905 at Oracle OpenWorld 2019, being held … More →

McAfee and Oracle deliver SIEM performance capabilities in the cloud

McAfee, the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, announced an extended relationship with Oracle to deliver security incident and events management (SIEM) performance capabilities in the cloud. With this collaboration, the McAfee Enterprise Security Manager (McAfee ESM) technology running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will increase the rate of data ingestion of events per second by more than 16 times. This increase in performance enables security operations center teams to more effectively and cost efficiently secure enterprise environments against … More →

Quest Toad for Oracle reduces disruptive and expensive unplanned development cycles

Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection and security software provider, announced major updates for Toad for Oracle, an intuitive database management toolset that makes it easy to perform essential database development and administration tasks. Now available from the Quest Information Management business, Toad for Oracle 13.2 includes a new utPLSQL unit test creation module that makes it easy for database developers to incorporate unit testing into their database development processes, ensuring they are … More →

Pentest secures contract with global tech corp, Xcina Consulting becomes preferred supplier

Shearwater Group, the organizational resilience group, announces that its group company, Pentest has secured a one-year contract with a global technology corporation worth in excess of US$1 million. At the same time, Xcina Consulting, another Shearwater group company has also signed a ‘Master Consulting Agreement’ and become a preferred supplier to the same organization. Under the terms of the contract, Pentest will deliver a framework for the provision of vulnerability assessment and penetration testing services … More →

ImmuniWeb Discovery diminishes application security complexity and operational costs

ImmuniWeb, a global application security testing and security ratings company, is thrilled to announce the launch of ImmuniWeb Discovery that now offers: continuous discovery of external digital web assets actionable security ratings of asset hackability and attractiveness continuous web security testing, best practices and compliance monitoring (PCI DSS, GDPR) continuous monitoring of data leaks, source code exposure, phishing and domain squatting monthly subscription starting at $99 per organization ImmuniWeb Discovery substantially diminishes application security complexity … More →