Sean Michael Kerner

Unauthorized crypto-currency mining, commonly referred to as cryptojacking, is a problem that doesn’t seem to be slowing down and continues to be challenge for enterprises and individuals. It’s challenge that hasn’t escaped the notice of the U.S Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is now enabling individuals to file complaints about alleged cryptojacking. The FTC’s new […]

Cyber-security firm Sophos announced its Sophos Email Advanced service on June 12, delivering protection against email threats as well as providing DMARC email authentication capabilities. Sophos Email Advanced integrates with multiple email technologies, including Office 365, Microsoft Exchange and Google G-Suite. The new service benefits from artificial intelligence capabilities that help detect potential threats in […]

While Cisco is well-known for its networking technologies, the company has increasingly become an adopter of and strong advocate for container technologies and the Kubernetes container orchestration system, in particular. Helping to lead Cisco’s strategic direction for containers is the company’s CTO for cloud computing, Lew Tucker. In a video interview with eWEEK, Tucker details […]

Untangle will announce version 14.0 of its NG Firewall platform on June 12, providing new features that enhance the security capabilities of the Linux-based platform. Untangle NG Firewall 14.0 benefits from enhanced support for securing software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technology for small and medium-sized organizations. The new release also includes the latest network security and […]

The open-source Snort intrusion detection and prevention system (IPS/IDS) is gearing up for a major update that will influence the future of Cisco’s next generation security appliances. In a video interview with eWEEK, Marty Roesch vice-president and Chief Architect of Cisco’s Security Business Group discusses the current state of the Snort 3.0 project. Roesch is […]

Red Hat is boosting its application development efforts with a pair of new releases, including Fuse 7 and Buildah 1.0, that will help developers to build and integrate cloud native container applications. Red Hat Fuse 7 is a cloud-native integration platform that is being augmented with a new hosted low code integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) called […]

On June 6, 2014, Joe Beda published the first code commit for the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration project. Four years later, Kubernetes has become a core enabler for cloud native technology and benefits from the support of all the major public cloud providers and many major enterprise IT vendors as well. When Beda made the first […]

Symantec announced a series of updates to its Network Security for the Cloud Generation offering on June 7, providing new capabilities to help protect distributed enterprises. A core component of Network Security for the Cloud Generation is Symantec’s Web Security Service (WSS), which is being integrated with the company’s endpoint protection technology. The new SD Cloud […]

Verizon announced its new Threat Intelligence Platform service on June 5, bringing insight from the company’s broad cyber-security incident investigation operations to enterprises. With the new subscription-based service, cyber-security threat intelligence that comes from Verizon’s own network is being made available via an integration with the Anomali Threat Platform. The intelligence provided by Verizon also […]

Bugcrowd released its 2018 State of the Bug Bounty report on June 6, revealing key trends in the evolving market for bug bounties. Among the high-level findings in the report is that organizations are now paying more for vulnerability disclosures than they have in prior years. Across Bugcrowd’s platform, the average bug bounty is now […]

IBM announced on June 4 that it is adding a pair of new capabilities to its MaaS360 with Watson unified endpoint management (UEM) platform. The new features include a policy recommendation engine that provides enterprise administrators with best practices and suggested configurations for endpoint security. In addition, MaaS360 with Watson is being updated with a […]

Tenable announced on June 5 that it is enhancing its Tenable.io cloud-based cyber-exposure platform with new capabilities to help enterprises identify and assess threats. With the update, Tenable now enables organizations to automatically identify and track assets in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure, in addition to Amazon Web Services (AWS), which was already […]