Sean Michael Kerner

The need to share security information to help defend against attacks is often considered a best practice, but how do you share that information in a safe, secure and anonymized way? That is the focus of security startup TruStar, which announced a new $2 million seed round of funding led by Resolute Ventures. The security […]

BARCELONA, Spain—Docker is continuing its efforts to dig deeper into the enterprise with the announcement here at DockerCon EU of a new management and deployment service called Docker Universal Control Plane. For Docker, the typical entry point into an organization is by way of developers, according to Scott Johnson, senior vice president at Docker Inc. […]

BARCELONA, Spain–Among the many big name IT vendors that support Docker containers is Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which is now announcing new services and products to support and enable container use. In a video interview at the DockerCon EU conference here, Omri Gazitt, vice president of products and services for HP Helion at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, […]

BARCELONA, Spain—The DockerCon EU conference kicked off here today, with both the devoted and the curious assembled to learn about one of the most talked-about technologies today—Docker. It’s no longer just a small project run by a single company; it’s a community that has the biggest names in IT—including Hewlett Packard Enterprise and IBM—supporting it. […]

BARCELONA, Spain—As Docker container adoption grows, so too does the need for robust security. Today at the DockerCon EU conference here, Docker announced several new security-focused efforts, building on existing security that Docker has been pushing this year. During the opening two-hour general keynote session, Docker founder Solomon Hykes emphasized that developers do care about […]

‘Tis the season for … malware? Ever since the Target breach was first revealed in December 2013, there has been a heightened awareness around point-of-sale (POS) malware. Now, a few short weeks before the 2015 holiday shopping season starts in earnest, multiple security firms are sounding the alarm on POS malware that is both old […]

Containers offer users a new more optimized way to run virtualized applications at scale, but what about security? Any user can pull down a container application from an image repository without knowing if the application is safe. A new open-source project from CoreOS called Clair is aiming to solve part of the challenge by providing […]

The Domain Name System is core to the functional operation of the Internet, linking domain names to IP addresses. Yet despite DNS’ critical role in the Internet infrastructure, proper security of DNS information has largely been lacking, which is something CloudFlare is now aiming to change. DNS information is at risk of being poisoned or […]

At long last, the open-source Firefox Web browser is now available to Apple’s iOS users, but it is a version that is missing one core element that every Firefox browser before it has always had. For the first time in Mozilla’s history, the company is releasing a full generally available browser that isn’t powered by […]

Marten Mickos is a well-known technology executive in the open-source and cloud realms, but he’s less known—if known at all—in the security industry. That’s about to change, as bug bounty vendor HackerOne named Mickos its CEO today. Mickos’ background includes stints as CEO of open-source database vendor MySQL, which Sun Microsystems acquired for $1 billion […]

In October 2005, Ron Gula, CEO of Tenable, decided to take his open-source Nessus vulnerability scanner and closed-source it. Ten years later, Gula’s foresight has been proven to be accurate, as Tenable, the company he helped create, is raising a new $250 million round of funding and closed-source Nessus continues to prosper. Tenable was founded […]

Proper Docker container configuration is a good first step for security, but according to Twistlock CEO Ben Bernstein, it’s not enough. Twistlock today announced the general availability of its Container Security Suite, which aims to go beyond best practices configuration for security to provide improved runtime security. “You should think of us as a traditional […]