Sean Michael Kerner

Wallarm is looking to gain share in the growing market for application security, with continued advancements to the company’s Framework for Automatic Security Testing, or FAST, platform. On Oct. 22, Wallarm announced that it raised $8 million in a Series A round of funding, led by Toba Capital and including the participation of Y Combinator, […]

Alissa Johnson knows full well that when it comes to securing a diverse, distributed enterprise like Xerox, there is no one single technology that is sufficient. Johnson is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Xerox, a post she has held since October 2016. She is also well know in the cybersecurity industry for her […]

WordPress is getting the serverless treatment, thanks to a new effort from managed WordPress hosting provider Pagely. The new NorthStack platform disaggregates the usual stack that WordPress requires into a series of services that largely run on serverless infrastructure at Amazon Web Services (AWS). The NorthStack effort is an attempt to lower the fixed costs […]

In the world of security, a common tactic is to block malicious actions in an attempt to prevent harm, but that’s not the approach that security startup DisruptOps is taking. DisruptOps is taking a “guardrails” approach as part of the company’s in-development cloud management platform for automated security and operations. The company announced on Oct. […]

Oracle’s final Critical Patch Update (CPU) for 2018 is now available, patching 301 vulnerabilities spread across Oracle’s product portfolio. Of the 301 vulnerabilities, 49 are rated with a CVSS (Common Vulnerabilities Security Scoring) score of 9.0 or higher, with only a single issue garnering the top severity rating of 10.0 The October CPU became generally […]

McAfee kicked off its annual MPOWER conference on Oct. 17 announcing new updates to its Mvision cyber-security product portfolio, The new updates include the Mvision EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) offering that provides new endpoint security capabilities. The new Mvision Cloud service brings cloud data protection to the McAfee portfolio, based on technology gained via […]

ShieldX announced its new Elastic Security Platform on Oct. 17 providing organizations with Docker container based data center security, that uses advanced machine learning to determine intent. At the core of the Elastic Security Platform is a technology that ShieldX calls the Adaptive Intention Engine that automatically determines the right policy and approach for security […]

Trend Micro announced its Apex One endpoint security offering on Oct. 15, providing organizations with a new set of capabilities. Apex One is the rebranded name for Trend Micro’s endpoint security technology, which integrates malware prevention technology with endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities. The endpoint security is enabled via a single end-user agent and […]

The U.S. government has advanced email security significantly over the course of the past year, thanks to the adoption of the Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) email security protocols. As of Oct. 16, a large set of U.S. federal government agencies are required to be compliant with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]

IBM is looking to further position itself as an open vendor with a series of announcements on Oct. 15 across security, cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services. IBM AI OpenScale is a new platform that enables organizations to use multiple AI frameworks including TensorFlow, AWS SageMaker, AzureML and others on the IBM cloud. In addition, […]

CyberArk announced its new Privileged Session Manager for Cloud offering on Oct. 15, providing its customers with capabilities for managing and monitoring privileged cloud access. Privileged Session Manager for Cloud has its roots in technology that CyberArk gained via the acquisition of cloud security provider Vaultive on March 12. What CyberArk has done is combine […]

Ubuntu 18.10 Brings Cosmic Cuttlefish to the Linux Desktop Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, is planning to release the latest milestone update, Ubuntu 18.10, on Oct. 18. The release, which is also known as the Cosmic Cuttlefish, is a standard release and will only be supported for nine months. In […]