Sean Michael Kerner

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) disclosed that it was the victim of a data breach that may have compromised the personal information of approximately 4 million current and former federal employees. Multiple media reports have alleged that unnamed government sources have cited China as the source of the hack, while Chinese officials have […]

June 3 was a busy day for OpenStack news, as not one, but two vendors were acquired: First, Piston Cloud Computing was bought by Cisco, and then Blue Box Cloud was picked up by IBM. Two independent OpenStack vendors picked up in one day was certainly a surprise, but only due to the timing. The […]

At the Black Hat USA 2014 conference, Ryan Trost spoke about the challenges and opportunities of building a threat intelligence library from multiple sources. Trost is the co-founder and CIO of ThreatQuotient, which officially launched on June 3, turning part of the strategy that was discussed at Black Hat into a real product, ThreatQ. The […]

TORONTO—Rami Rahim has been on the job as the CEO of networking vendor Juniper for the last six months, and in that time, he’s helped his company focus on the things that will help drive the business forward. Rahim delivered a keynote address at the Canadian Telecom Summit here today about the opportunities for telcos […]

President Obama signed the USA Freedom Act into law on June 2, after the U.S Senate passed the new surveillance bill in a 67-32 vote. With the new act, Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act—which enabled the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect bulk metadata on Americans’ communications—is no more. Instead, new provisions are […]

Controlling applications and limiting the risks of mobile devices to an enterprise is no small task. Security vendor Lookout is now adding a new product into the mix of mobile-device management (MDM) and mobile-security technologies with its mobile-threat-protection platform for enterprises. “What we’re doing with the mobile-threat-protection platform is we’re offering enterprises the ability to […]

Security vendor Niara officially exited stealth mode today, providing details on its security intelligence technology platform. Niara has raised a total of $29.4 million in funding, including a $20 million Series B round led by Venrock and with the participation of New Enterprise Associates and Index Ventures that was announced on April 12. Niara’s technology […]

The modern IT security threat landscape is varied and complex, and no one vendor on its own can entirely secure against all threats. That reality has prompted Trustwave and Akamai to join together in a partnership alliance to promote and sell each other’s technology and services. Financial terms of the new partnership are not being […]

As expected, American lawmakers were unable to come to an agreement to renew provisions of the USA Patriot Act before a deadline of midnight on May 31. As a result of the lapse, Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act, which is the legal tool that enables U.S intelligence agencies to collect bulk metadata on […]

There seems to be no shortage of available online documentation and best practices for how security should be done, for all manner of technology deployments. The real security challenge, however, isn’t always about having available best practices, but rather in having the time and resources to implement them. That’s why tools that can help automate […]

Intel is one of the most active participants in the open-source community, contributing code and resources to multiple efforts. Leading Intel’s open-source initiatives is Imad Sousou, vice president in the Software and Services Group at Intel and general manager of the Intel Open Source Technology Center. In a video interview with eWEEK, Sousou discusses Intel’s […]

Unisys is a global IT service provider and like every other IT organization, it needs to secure its own infrastructure and users. Helping to lead Unisys’ security efforts is Chief Information Security Officer Dave Frymier, who uses a mix of technology and processes in his job. In a video interview with eWEEK, Frymier discusses the […]