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Eurofins Digital Testing launches Cyber Security Division

Eurofins Digital Testing launched a new Cyber Security Division to serve the media and entertainment industry, Internet of Things providers, and other key markets. Concurrently, the company announced the appointments of Marcel Mangel, Erik Rutkens, and Sean Walls as Managing Directors of Cyber Security, overseeing a team of nearly 100 security experts around the globe. Today, media and entertainment companies in particular face numerous security threats. These span their internal enterprise software applications and hardware, … More →

ThreatConnect expands TIP capabilities with new automation

In an effort to address the growing threat intelligence market need for automation, ThreatConnect has extended its product offering to include Playbooks in its TC Analyze product. Built for analysts, by analysts, TC Analyze provides a place to see teams’ tasks, analyze data, and connect all available security tools. TC Analyze with the Playbooks feature increases threat intelligence platform (TIP) flexibility by adding automation to formerly disconnected security tools. Customers now have the ability to … More →

Vade Secure launches IsItPhishing Threat Detection to help SOCs identify phishing URLs

Vade Secure launched IsItPhishing Threat Detection, an anti-phishing solution that helps Security Operations Centers (SOCs) identify and block targeted phishing attacks. Easily integrating with existing SIEM and SOAR solutions through a lightweight API, IsItPhishing Threat Detection delivers a real-time verdict on whether a suspicious URL is phishing or not. These verdicts can be leveraged in SOC workflows to accelerate phishing detection, response and resolution. Real-time phishing detection powered by machine learning To detect unknown, targeted … More →

OpenStack Foundation board expands mission to host new open source projects

The board of directors of the OpenStack Foundation (OSF) adopted a resolution advancing a new governance framework supporting the organization’s investment in emerging use cases for OpenStack and open infrastructure. These include continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), container infrastructure, edge computing, datacenter and, newly added, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML). The board resolution authorizes the officers of the OSF to select and incubate Pilot projects. This new governance framework broadens the OSF’s mission to serve … More →

Cequence Security announces application security platform to stop bot attacks

Cequence Security released Cequence ASP, an application security platform that provides a scalable defense against the growing number of bot attacks affecting today’s hyper-connected organizations. These financially-motivated attacks target externally-facing web and mobile apps, as well as API services that provide connections to other applications across their digital ecosystem. Attack objectives can include account takeover, content scraping, distributed denial of service, and much more. “From a bad actor’s perspective, geo-distributed bot attacks are relatively easy … More →

Cryptowerk introduces blockchain-based technology to certify data integrity of digital assets

Cryptowerk introduced Cryptowerk Seal, a blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) solution that creates a seal for any form of digital assets. The cloud service writes digital seals or “fingerprints” of the data to one or more blockchains at speeds of up to one million times per second, creating a tamper-proof chain of custody that can be used in large-scale enterprise applications. With the digital seal, every product, process and transaction can now be matched to its original to … More →

Citco launches new SaaS Æxeo Treasury solution on Amazon Web Services

The Citco Group of Companies (“Citco”) launched Æxeo Treasury, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering. The new product is a solution that gives alternative fund managers a method of managing treasury functions through a SaaS tool running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It adds value by improving operational efficiencies and workflows, and provides a secure, centralized module for treasury operations. Æxeo Treasury is a stand-alone solution that enables firms to centralize their treasury functions, including funding investments, … More →

ISACA refreshes COBIT framework to address latest business technology trends and standards

ISACA released its first update to the COBIT framework in nearly seven years. The new version, COBIT 2019, provides guidance to help enterprises better govern and manage their information and technology. The COBIT framework is used by enterprises in all industries around the globe, and COBIT publications have been downloaded more than one million times. ISACA introduced COBIT in 1996 to provide and organize a set of controls for IT. The new iteration of COBIT … More →

Aruba introduces new secure, AI-powered mobility innovations for the experience edge

Aruba released a new family of 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) IoT-ready wireless access points and complementary access switches, along with innovations in security, intelligent power management, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered automation and service assurance, to deliver the performance, simplicity and reliability that organizations need to give users exceptional digital experiences. The new wireless access points support the latest Wi-Fi standard and are to be Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA) certified for the new WPA3 and Enhanced Open security … More →

Red Hat drives foundation for Kubernetes and virtual machines with Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14

Red Hat launched Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14, the latest version of Red Hat’s scalable, cloud-native apps-ready Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution. Based on the OpenStack “Rocky” community release, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 integrates with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform bringing more support for Kubernetes to enterprise-grade OpenStack. Paired with capabilities to improve bare-metal resource consumption and enhance deployment automation, Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14 aims to deliver a single infrastructure offering that can lay the … More →