Sean Michael Kerner

Mozilla’s today released the Firefox 42 browser, which provides users with improved privacy and security capabilities. The new privacy feature in Firefox 42 is called Tracking Protection and currently works inside Firefox’s Private Browsing mode. Mozilla first introduced Private Browsing in Firefox 3.1, which was released in 2008. The basic idea with Private Browsing mode […]

Back in September, zero-day acquisition firm Zerodium made a very bold offer—a $1 million bug bounty for a browser-based, untethered jailbreak of Apple’s new iOS 9 mobile operating system. The $1 million prize represents that largest public bug bounty ever offered, and there was some speculation in the IT security world that it would never […]

Symantec is expanding its security portfolio with the launch of Symantec Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) technology. ATP offers the promise of a console that has visibility into control points across an enterprise and is able to find the security threats that other technologies deployed by an enterprise might not discover, including potential zero-day issues. “Over […]

OpenStack Summit: From Containers to Gaming as a Service The OpenStack community gathered in Tokyo to learn about the latest developments in the open-source cloud world, including the upcoming Mitaka release. Event Spread Across Five Buildings Approximately 5 thousand people attended the summit, which was one of the largest that OpenStack has held to date […]

TOKYO—Time and again, organizations cite security as the biggest barrier to cloud adoption. At the OpenStack Summit that concluded Oct. 30 here, I had a lot of time to think about all aspects of the cloud and especially security, even while sightseeing at the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Security isn’t just something I write about—it’s a […]

OpenStack Adoption Accelerates to Support App Deployment, Study Finds More production deployments are reported than ever before as organizations look to speed innovation so they can deploy code and apps faster and to avoid vendor lock-in. North America Is the Top Location for OpenStack Currently, 44 percent of reported OpenStack users are in North America, […]

TOKYO—In a virtualized data center or a cloud deployment, simply putting a firewall or a network security device at the perimeter isn’t enough. It’s an area in which Intel Security is active, and the company discussed its efforts at the OpenStack Summit here in a session titled “Inserting Advanced Network Security in OpenStack Clouds” on […]

TOKYO–The OpenStack Foundation has a large, 24-person board of directors that provides strategic and financial oversight for the organization. Sitting at the helm, is the chairman of the board, Alan Clark, who helps to lead the efforts of the broad and diverse group. In a video interview with Clark at the OpenStack Summit here, he […]

TOKYO—At the OpenStack Summit here, there have been a number of common themes and questions that keep surfacing. Time and again panels are discussing why contributions matter and how Amazon is or isn’t the competition. One such panel session was titled “The OpenStack Orchestra: The Next Wave of OpenStack Specialist Startups,” and included executives from […]

TOKYO—Docker containers and the OpenStack cloud are getting a little closer today, thanks to the new Carina Containers as a Service announced by Rackspace. Rackspace announced the new Carina service at the OpenStack Summit here, detailing how the service can rapidly enable users to build and deploy Docker containers in the cloud. In a video […]

At Intel Security’s FOCUS conference in Las Vegas, the company is announcing its renewed strategy to help enterprises of all sizes stay safe in an increasingly hostile online world. As part of the strategy, Intel Security is updating an existing product with McAfee Endpoint Security 10.X and is also introducing the new McAfee Active Response […]

TOKYO–At the OpenStack Summit here, Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, delivered the opening keynote address detailing the successes of the past six months. While OpenStack is growing, in the media and analyst question and answer session that followed the keynote, the question was asked how OpenStack compares against Amazon. Amazon continues to […]