Chris Preimesberger

SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch says she’s surprised that Apple has put up a legal firewall against the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the San Bernardino iPhone backdoor case, because it has cooperated with federal law enforcement in the past. Lynch addressed a packed house March 1 at the RSA conference here […]

EMC, busy being bought by Dell, also was busy on the new-products side Feb. 29, unveiling a new heavy-duty all-NAND flash array, a re-engineered VMAX all-flash array and new software for mainframes at the SHARE 2016 conference in San Antonio, Texas.Fundamentally, EMC is kissing good-bye to hard-disk drives with this news, none of which involves […]

RSA Conference 2016, the world’s largest annual meetup of security professionals and product and service vendors, has opened its doors at Moscone Center in San Francisco and is expected to attract a record number of attendees, Feb. 29 through March 3. Conferences come and go with the changing trends, but RSA has been a survivor, […]

Startup security provider Vera, whose brand of data protection is nothing short of extremely granular, has closed a $17 million round of venture capital funding. The Series B round, announced Feb. 18, was led by Sutter Hill Ventures, with participation from existing investors Battery Ventures, Clear Venture Partners, and Amplify Partners. As part of the […]

Why Leap Year Is a Cogent Reminder for Enterprises to Sync Up Security Just as Feb. 29 re-syncs clocks with the orbit of Earth, it is critical that enterprises be in sync, especially to maintain and improve one’s security posture. Operationalize Security From the Start If you’re going to avail yourself of security intelligence, synchronize […]

IT integrator and consultant Capgemini is a big, successful multinational company based in Paris. It’s also smart enough to know that quite often, innovation happens outside of its team of 180,000 employees in 40-plus countries. So, to keep the company focusing on new and better products and services, it announced a couple of things. First, […]

Security professionals are virtually unanimous in their contentions that more than 90 percent–and the actual figure, they say, is probably higher than that–of all IT system hacks are inside jobs. Many of these misdeeds are perpetrated by somebody from the outside who has stolen or bought an employee’s credentials. Exabeam, a startup that focuses on […]

Every security provider would like to find a replacement for passwords, which can easily be forgotten and are too often stolen, hacked and otherwise abused by bad actors. MasterCard thinks that faces and fingerprints can’t easily be stolen, forgotten, hacked and otherwise abused quite as much as passwords, and it’s probably right. With this in […]

Salesforce may have discovered the real secret to selling customer relationship management software–by marketing directly to potential customers’ chief executive officers. The strategy must be working, because the world’s largest cloud business app provider reported another impressive financial quarter Feb. 24. The numbers exceeded Wall Street estimates and caused it to raise its revenue guidance […]

Facebook has now made available five more choices than simply “liking” a post, picture or video on its pages. Many of the social network’s 1.5 billion users had been asking for more options for years. Facebook on Feb. 24 finally enabled the use of more choices, which it calls Reactions. These are “Love,” “Haha,” “Wow,” […]

Samsung, which, like Apple, has made no secret of its intention to move into new sectors that don’t necessarily involve the consumer market, announced Feb. 22 that it is now targeting enterprise mobility and productivity as its next initiative. The Seoul-based conglomerate said it is working on new mobility and productivity products, ranging from hardware […]

Nimble Storage is bent on making storage faster and smarter than servers and virtual machines. This is how it has decided to step up its storage marketshare fight against EMC’s XtremIO, Pure Storage, Kaminario, Violin Memory and a host of others. The San Jose, Calif.-based company, which has gained more than 7,500 customers and was […]