Cloud Security

As the Barracuda team celebrates the company’s 15th anniversary this month, we’ve been thinking about how much technology has changed since 2003 when we launched our first email security solution. We wanted to see how our customers and channel partners feel about the past, present, and future of cyber security and how their approach has evolved over time. We surveyed more than 1,500 IT leaders and security professionals in North America, EMEA, and APAC about...

Aqua Security, the leading platform provider for securing container-based and cloud native applications, today announced version 3.5 of its cloud native security platform, which now protects a wide range of cloud native technologies, including applications using serverless functions. Customers can deploy end-to-end security to establish a consistent policy enforcement layer spanning containers, serverless containers (such as AWS Fargate) and serverless functions (such as AWS Lambda). In addition, driven by continued enterprise adoption of the Aqua...

Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today announced two new promotional offers that allow VMware Workspace ONE customers to easily take advantage of the Okta Identity Cloud through their local channel partner. These two offers include: Okta for VMware Workspace ONE Advanced: Workspace ONE Advanced customers who are looking to build on their VMware digital workspace capabilities for use cases such as non-employees and cloud apps can now purchase...

Company positioned furthest for completeness of vision for second consecutive year. Netskope, the cloud security company, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has recognized the company as a Leader in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers. In addition to its recognition as a Leader, Netskope is also positioned furthest for its completeness of vision. This is the second consecutive recognition as a Leader positioned furthest for completeness of vision for Netskope. The report...

A lack of knowledge and an overreliance on manual change processes is leading many businesses to jeopardise the security of their cloud deployments, global technology services provider Claranet warns today. The warning follows the launch of a report published by McAfee this week, which found that the average business has approximately 14 improperly configured IaaS instances running at any given time and roughly one in every 20 AWS S3 buckets are left wide open to...

Today, Morpheus Data rolled out enhancements to its next-gen multi-cloud management platform (CMP) in support of hybrid IT projects at large enterprises and service providers. Having recently received a Best of VMworld Award for Agile Operations and Automation and achieving the top vendor ranking on WhatMatrix.com for CMP, this announcement reinforces Morpheus’ applicability for commercial platforms like VMware as well as open source and cloud-native frameworks. News highlights include: Expanded OpenStack support Automation with AWS...

Druva Inc., a global leader in cloud data protection and management, today announced the Druva Cloud Platform, Druva’s Data Management-as-a-Service solution, is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Snowball Edge. This solution allows enterprises to freely move data between on-premises and cloud without the lock-in, complexity, and cost of legacy hardware, enabling them to speed up their infrastructure to cloud transition. Organisations are rapidly adopting cloud infrastructure for application services. According to Druva’s recent...

Becrypt, a trusted provider of endpoint cybersecurity software solutions, today announced the launch of Paradox Edge, a desktop-as-a-service or secure ‘cloud client’ platform that is optimised for accessing cloud services. Paradox Edge is a managed service that enables organisations to extend the value of cloud adoption across the enterprise by reducing the software complexity associated with end user devices. It represents a highly cost-effective and scalable solution to the challenge of giving users - in...

Ken Xie, founder, chairman of the board and chief executive officer, Fortinet “Enterprise organizations are experiencing a dramatic increase in the number of endpoints and users accessing data and cloud resources, which is also increasing the need to defend against insider threats. In fact, 30 percent of breaches involved insiders acting negligently or maliciously according to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. By combining ZoneFox’s cloud-based threat-hunting technology with Fortinet’s existing endpoint and SIEM...

Rackspace® today announced it is broadening its existing Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) for on-premises, colocation and multi-cloud environments. By leveraging Zerto’s industry-leading disaster recovery (DR) software, Rackspace will provide managed services for all aspects of disaster recovery planning, testing and management with custom recovery service level agreements (SLA). Rackspace DRaaS for Zerto is another example of how Rackspace is fulfilling its strategy to deliver modern IT as a service for its customers by...