Sean Michael Kerner

Trend Micro announced on June 19 a Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service to assist security operations teams. MDR provides managed cyber-security services that benefit from artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to help detect threats. The new service is not intended to replace an organization’s existing security team, but rather is being positioned as a complementary […]

VirusTotal announced a new Monitor service on June 19 that could help to reduce malware false positives in software. Since the site was founded in 2004, VirusTotal has enabled developers and antivirus vendors to check files against malware detection engines. With the new VirusTotal (VT) Monitor, software developers can now benefit from a private system […]

Among the most popular sporting events in the world is the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which runs from June 14 to July 15 in Russia. The popularity of the World Cup has long been a magnet for spammers and so far the 2018 event is no exception. IBM’s X-Force has been tracking the FIFA World […]

Container security vendor Twistlock announced on June 19 that it is adding serverless function protection to its platform. The new serverless capabilities are set to become generally available in July as part of the Twistlock 2.5 update. In a video interview with eWEEK, Twistlock CTO John Morello explains how the new serverless security technology works […]

Container orchestration systems, including Kubernetes, are increasingly being deployed in the cloud, but not all those deployments are being done in a secure manner, according to a new report from Lacework, set to be released on June 19,  Lacework conducted an analysis of cloud-hosted container orchestration deployments and discovered 21,169 publicly facing container orchestration platforms. […]

Multiple security vendors demonstrated their offerings during DockerCon 18, which ran June 12-15 in San Francisco, among them being container security firm NeuVector. In a video interview with eWEEK, Fei Huang CEO and co-founder of NeuVector, explains what drew him to container security and why networking security controls are needed.  Huang is no stranger to […]

This continues to be a challenging year for Intel from a security perspective. Having already had to deal with multiple security issues in 2018, the CPU giant publicly disclosed on June 13 a new security vulnerability that impacts some of its processors. The flaw is known as a “Lazy FP (Floating Point) state restore” issue […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Steve Singh has a very succinct vision for Docker. He wants to enable companies to modernize traditional applications with the Docker container platform. It’s a vision that is already transforming into market success for Docker as the company has grown from what Singh said was single-digit million-dollar revenue in 2016 to being on track […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Ali Golshan began working on StackRox in December 2014 as a new type of security company for container environments. The company emerged from stealth in July 2017 with technology to help secure cloud-native container environments and has been steadily improving its technology ever since. In a video interview with eWEEK at DockerCon 18 here, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Sysdig announced version 2.0 of its Secure platform on June 13, providing organizations with new capabilities that go beyond the container runtime to help secure cloud-native application deployments. Sysdig Secure 2.0 adds vulnerability management, compliance and security analytics on top of the platform’s existing container runtime security features. The new product release was announced […]

SAN FRANCISCO—DockerCon 18 kicked off here on June 13 with Docker Inc. making a series of announcements that aim to further advance container adoption by enterprises. Docker announced it is enhancing its flagship Docker Enterprise Edition (EE) with a new federated application management capability that enables enterprises to manage and deploy containers across a multicloud […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Dror Davidoff, co-founder and CEO of Aqua Security, launched his company’s namesake 1.0 container security platform in May 2016 and has been steadily improving it ever since. Aqua was among the first of what is now a long list of third-party vendors that provide security controls for Docker container environments. In a video interview […]