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Pivot3 announces surveillance solution to support video deployments

Pivot3 announced the release of its surveillance solution. Designed to support video surveillance and security deployments of 500TB or more, the platform provides the performance, resiliency, scalability and ease of use that is required for large scale environments. With this solution, Pivot3 is streamlining large scale video, security management and storage environments by hosting video management software, security applications and storage on a modular, scalable appliance. The solution can deliver more than 6PB of storage … More →

Rapid7 integrates with Microsoft Azure to provide visibility, analytics, and automation for cloud security

Rapid7 announced integration between Rapid7’s Insight platform and Microsoft Azure. This integration provides vulnerability management, analytics-driven incident detection for hybrid environments, and agent deployment within the Azure infrastructure. Rapid7 customers utilizing Azure have, through InsightVM and InsightIDR, increased visibility into security vulnerability and attacks within their cloud and hybrid environments. Today’s security teams must work across IT and DevOps to maintain secure environments through orchestrated and automated processes that reduce risk while also limiting impact … More →

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 enables cloud, network, and Windows automation

Red Hat announced the availability of Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6, the latest release of its agentless open source IT automation solution. Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 adds new content for automating across hybrid and multicloud environments, along with simplified connections to network APIs and updates for Ansible deployments overseeing Windows environments. When Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 combines with Red Hat Ansible Tower, Red Hat’s centralized control plane for managing and optimizing automated systems … More →

Fugue announces Phillip Merrick as CEO

Fugue announced it has hired Phillip Merrick as CEO. Merrick will drive strategy and lead the company’s operations across product, marketing and sales. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience growing enterprise software and SaaS companies, he will also lead Fugue’s efforts to educate the market about technology that changes the way enterprises address issues such as policy compliance and configuration drift in the cloud. As founder and CEO, Merrick took webMethods public in … More →

ThreatConnect enhances threat intelligence, analytics and orchestration capabilities

ThreatConnect announces new Playbooks enablements to optimize the ability to make faster security decisions, automate processes, and improve reaction and response capacity. “Our vision is a Platform that transforms the way that security professionals do their jobs,” CEO Adam Vincent said. “I’ve said this before…the only way to augment humans is to act like them. Humans use data to produce knowledge that becomes wisdom. That wisdom is the equivalent of our Intelligence and is what … More →

ManageEngine extends its SIEM solution log management capabilities to the cloud

ManageEngine announced that it has extended the log management capabilities of its security information and event management (SIEM) solution, Log360, to the cloud. Log360 Cloud allows IT administrators to store and manage log data collected from on-premises environments on Zoho’s secure cloud platform, giving enterprises insight on aspects of their network without having to worry about storage infrastructure. According to Gartner, cloud-based SIEM deployments are expected to reach $512.1 million in 2019. “Small and midsize … More →

Nehemiah Security upgrades Exploit Quantifier platform

Nehemiah Security announced upgrades to the EQ (Exploit Quantifier) platform. EQ tests the effectiveness of an organization’s endpoint configuration against malware and other attacks by leveraging cyberwarfare tools to characterize, model and predict attack outcomes in a customized, virtual environment. This configurable framework establishes scalable and repeatable testing to generate high-fidelity cyberattack intelligence. Security teams leverage this automated functionality to perform what-if scenarios, train security personnel, and strengthen their defensive posture. Security leaders must understand … More →

Mark Woodward joins Armor as CEO

Armor announced that Mark Woodward has joined Armor’s leadership team as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Armor founder and former CEO Chris Drake is stepping into the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) role as product strategist and evangelist and will continue as a member of the Board. “Armor is in a unique position to be the ‘definitive leader’ of cloud security, and I am very excited that Mark is joining Armor to help realize that vision,” said … More →

Lenovo and Cloudistics develop ThinkAgile CP series composable cloud platform

Lenovo is further expanding its ThinkAgile portfolio to provide a solution for customers who desire the agility of the public cloud and the security of a private cloud. To address this trend, Lenovo – together with Cloudistics – has developed the ThinkAgile CP Series composable cloud platform, a ‘cloud-in-a-box’ that offers conveniences and ease-of-use of a public cloud environment secured behind the customer’s own data center firewall. Lenovo ThinkAgile CP Series – with infrastructure, application … More →

Webroot announces integration with BrightGauge

This partnership will integrate Webroot’s real-time cybersecurity data into dashboards and reports through the BrightGauge’s business intelligence platform for MSPs for business insights. With dashboards leveraging Webroot data, BrightGauge customers will experience a real-time view of active threats to monitor and manage security operations. Security reports through BrightGauge help MSPs share Webroot’s in-depth data with customers to make business decisions. “Webroot and BrightGauge have a shared understanding of the challenges today’s MSPs face. With our … More →