Articles In Technology Week in Review

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Tuesday 10/8 Citrix’s Chief Security Architect on how to avoid misconfiguration Misconfiguration risk can be efficiently managed by planning security before deployment, not as an afterthought. Planning ahead can greatly reduce misconfiguration risk at low cost and with moderate effort — a vital activity for such an important threat. http://bit.ly/2OvI8y2 McAfee To Debut New Partner Program Synced With Technology Vision The new training program will be tightly aligned with McAfee's corporate... read more.

• October 11, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 9/30 Most malspam contains a malicious URL these days, not file attachments If the majority of malspam content sent out these days leverages malicious links, this means operators are getting higher clickthroughs and infections when compared to the classic technique of attaching files to emails. https://zd.net/2mVWoVv IGEL’s new hardware design is on track for the EUC revolution The IGEL UD2 features a quad-core processor providing robust performance for use cases ranging from office applic... read more.

• October 04, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 9/23 Now Available – EC2 Instances (G4) with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs The instances are equipped with up to four NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs, each with 320 Turing Tensor cores, 2,560 CUDA cores, and 16 GB of memory. The T4 GPUs are ideal for machine learning inferencing, computer vision, video processing, and real-time speech & natural language processing. https://amzn.to/2l12uCP Pure Storage Named as a Leader in New Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Pure Storage is deliverin... read more.

• September 27, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 9/16 F5 Networks: Application Lifecycle Focus Is Giving Partners A 'Bigger Piece Of The Pie’ Customers are constantly cycling through developing, deploying, operating and governing code, often across multiple cloud environments. It's a difficult process and the vast majority of customers doing it fast and at scale need help, said F5 Networks President and CEO François Locoh-Donou. http://bit.ly/2lST2l0 Mobile Security Flaw Leaves Android Smartphones Vulnerable to SMS Phishing Attacks... read more.

• September 20, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 9/9 Ransomware Protection and Containment Strategies: Practical Guidance for Endpoint Protection, Hardening, and Containment Ransomware is a global threat targeting organizations in all industries. The impact of a successful ransomware event can be material to an organization - including the loss of access to data, systems, and operational outages. http://bit.ly/2lEhh6y Malicious Android apps containing Joker malware set up shop on Google Play In total, the applications -- made available through... read more.

• September 13, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Tuesday 9/3 Check Point Announces Enterprise Branch Office Security Powered by a Cloud Service With CloudGuard Connect and CloudGuard Edge, Check Point protects branch office connections to the cloud from sophisticated threats with dynamic scalability, intelligent provisioning and consistent control. http://bit.ly/2jX293D Citrix ADC: Always ready for public clouds Citrix ADC enables flexibility and control, helping businesses deploy applications on premises and on public clouds such as Amazon Web Servi... read more.

• September 06, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 8/26 Nvidia, VMware partner to offer virtualized GPUs The companies say it's the first hybrid cloud offering that lets enterprises use GPUs to accelerate AI, machine learning or deep learning workloads.  https://zd.net/2Hph6nm IRS Warns Taxpayers of New Scam Campaign Distributing Malware The emails contain a 'temporary password' or 'one-time password' to 'access' the files to submit the refund. But when taxpayers try to access these, it turns out to be a malicious file. http://bit.ly/2zqnC... read more.

• August 30, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 8/19 Carbon Black Delivers New API Capabilities and Access Control on Its Cloud-Native Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) Carbon Black’s latest innovation in the cloud gives security and IT teams granular control over the actions and data that individuals can access, providing administrators with greater control of data access and management within their security environments. http://bit.ly/2TLpums Citrix a Leader in Unified Endpoint Management Citrix today announced that it has been posit... read more.

• August 23, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Monday 8/12 McAfee buys container security startup NanoSec McAfee said NanoSec's security capabilities will be applied to applications and workloads deployed in containers and Kubernetes environments, giving customers app-level segmentation for detecting and preventing threats. https://zd.net/2MTqkfn AWS To Expand VMware Cloud On AWS Availability Amazon Web Services plans to expand the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS from 16 AWS regions to all 21 of its cloud computing regions by the end of next ye... read more.

• August 16, 2019

By Eric Corcoran, Posted in Technology Week in Review

Tuesday 7/30 Capital One Announces Data Security Incident This event affected approximately 100 million individuals in the United States and approximately 6 million in Canada. Importantly, no credit card account numbers or log-in credentials were compromised and over 99 percent of Social Security numbers were not compromised. https://prn.to/2GDVrrc Robinhood admits to storing some passwords in cleartext Not all Robinhood users were impacted, but a company spokesperson could not reveal the exact number.... read more.

• August 09, 2019