Sean Michael Kerner

Tempered Networks is broadening its network security approach with the announcement of the Identity-Defined Network (IDN) Fabric, which ties together the company’s Host Identity Protocol (HIP)-based technology with enhanced services to help secure data traffic. Tempered Networks first entered the market in November 2014 with the idea of using HIP to security the Internet of […]

Back in July, the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as an effort to advance cloud application management and interoperability. Today, the CNCF is still in its formative stages, defining its processes, projects and even itself. Helping to lead the CNCF forward is its interim executive director, Chris Aniszczyk, who […]

Andrzej Kawalec, CTO for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Security Services, has seen a significant shift in recent years in how hackers operate. While hacking was at one time just a disorganized, ad hoc activity, it has become a business and is structured that way. In a new report, HPE details how the business of hacking and […]

Solomon Hykes, founder of Docker Inc., is a familiar name in the world of open source today, but he wasn’t always an open-source developer. In a keynote at the OSCON conference on May 18, Hykes detailed Docker’s open-source voyage and released a trio of new tools as open source. Docker Inc.’s core vision is to […]

The emerging market for application containers is a very fluid one, which is one of the reasons why Scalock is now rebranding itself as Aqua Security. After months in beta, the Aqua Container Security platform became generally available on May 18, providing another option to organizations looking to secure container deployments. “As is sometimes the […]

The Bitly URL shortening service serves about 12 billion clicks a month, helping users with shorter links get to the places online that they want to go. Starting today, some of those links will be more secure as a result of the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) by way of the Let’s Encrypt effort. […]

Security experts time and again will recommend that users change their passwords regularly. That’s advice that 100 million LinkedIn users hopefully took to heart, as hackers are now selling user information from a breach the social network first disclosed nearly two years ago. Back in June 2012, LinkedIn reported a breach of its system that […]

Digital Shadows is improving its flagship SearchLight data analysis platform, enabling users to more easily detect breached credentials, as well as typosquatter domains. Digital Shadows is in the business of helping organizations with security intelligence in a bid to improve cyber situational awareness. The SearchLight platform was originally launched in the United States on Sept. […]

Dell has announced new security technologies that provide threat detection and prevention for traditional endpoints as well as cloud client computing. Dell Data Protection Threat Defense is an entirely new product, though it has its roots in some existing Dell technologies, according to Brett Hansen, executive director of Data Security Solutions at Dell. “The underlying […]

Israeli cloud security startup Avanan on May 17 announced that is has raised $14.9 million in a Series A round of funding from Greenfield Cities Holdings, a TPG Growth portfolio company; Magma VC; and StageOne Ventures. The new funding will be used by the company to accelerate growth. Total funding to date for Avanan including […]

Apple updated its mobile and desktop operating systems on May 16, with the release of iOS 9.3.2 and Mac OS X 10.11.5 with patches to a number of security vulnerabilities. For Apple’s OS X desktop operating system, the new update follows the 10.11.4 release that debuted on March 21, while the iOS 9.3.1 mobile operating […]

The evolving market for application containers isn’t just about developer adoption anymore; it’s now very much about investors, too. The week of May 9, in particular, highlights the intense interest that venture capitalists (VCs) have in containers and the potential to profit from the new approach to building, deploying and managing applications at scale. Over […]