Sean Michael Kerner

May 25 is the first day for enforcement of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, but Michelle Dennedy isn’t too worried about it. The chief privacy officer of Cisco doesn’t expect many organizations to actually be compliant, but she is optimistic that GDPR does herald a new beginning for privacy. In a video interview […]

VANCOUVER, B.C.—The OpenStack Foundation is in a period of transition as it seeks to enable a broader set of open infrastructure efforts than just the OpenStack cloud project itself. In a video interview at the OpenStack Summit here, OpenStack Foundation Executive Director Jonathan Bryce and Chief Operating Officer Mark Collier discussed how the open-source organization is […]

Employees Using More Networks for Remote Access of Apps, Duo Finds Duo Security released its 2018 Duo Trusted Access Report on May 23, revealing insights into the current state of end-user devices and access in enterprise environments. The 13-page report is based on Duo Security’s analysis of 10.7 million devices and nearly 500 million user […]

Enterprise identity management vendor Okta announced a series of new products and updates on May 23 that aim to advance the state of access security. Among the new and updated products announced is Sign In with Okta, a secure authentication system for app providers. Okta is also updating its Adaptive Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi-Factor […]

VANCOUVER, B.C.—The Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 release was officially announced here on May 21, bringing along with it new features and expanded support for the open-source cloud platform. In a video interview with eWEEK, Mark McLoughlin, senior director of engineering for OpenStack at Red Hat, details what’s new in the release and what is […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—The OpenStack Foundation announced on May 22 the Kata Containers 1.0 release which is designed to bolster container security. The Kata Containers project provides a virtualization isolation layer to help run multi-tenant container deployments in a more secure manner than running containers natively on bare-metal. The effort provides a micro-virtual machine (VM) layer that […]

Two new variants of the Spectre and Meltdown side-channel vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed on May 21, impacting CPUs from multiple vendors, including Intel and ARM. The two vulnerabilities—CVE-2018-3640, identified as Rogue System Register Read, and CVE-2018-3639, identified as Speculative Store Bypass—could potentially enable an attacker to read arbitrary system memory on a vulnerable system. “Security […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia—The OpenStack Summit got underway on May 21, with a strong emphasis on the broader open-source cloud community beyond just the OpenStack cloud platform itself. At the summit, the OpenStack Foundation announced that it was making its open-source Zuul continuous development, continuous integration (CI/CD) technology a new top level standalone project. Zuul has […]

VMware announced its VMware Integrated OpenStack 5 on May 21, providing an updated cloud platform for both data center and carrier deployments. The updated carrier edition provides what VMware is calling OpenStack “in a box” for 5G and edge computing, enabling small-footprint cloud deployments at the edge of a wireless network. In addition, the new […]

There is an increasingly common trend in the cyber-security industry to integrate automation approaches to help identify and remediate threats. According to Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder and CTO of CrowdStrike, while automation is important, it’s not likely to replace the need for human cyber-security analysts any time soon. In a video interview with eWEEK, Alperovitch discusses his company’s […]

The open-source WordPress content management system project announced its 4.9.6 update on May 17, providing users with privacy enhancements designed to help sites be compliant with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. GDPR is set to go into effect on May 25, requiring organizations to take steps to protect the privacy of end- user […]

Internet of Thing Security Policies Still Lagging, Report Finds Internet of things (IoT) security has been a growing concern in recent years, with vulnerabilities continuing to be reported and hackers continuing to launch attacks. IoT security vendor Pwnie Express released its 2018 Internet of Evil Things report on May 16, providing insight from a total […]