Sean Michael Kerner

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released its 2017 Internet Crime Report on May 8, revealing an increase in the volume of crimes reported but a decrease in the amount of financial loss. The 29-page study reported that in 2017, the IC3 received a total of 301,580 complaints, up from 298,728 in 2016. Losses, […]

Red Hat kicked off is annual summit in San Francisco on May 8, announcing new partner integrations with IBM and Microsoft, as well as detailing the future direction of its OpenShift Kubernetes container orchestration platform. Red Hat and Microsoft announced they have partnered for a jointly managed OpenShift container platform in the cloud. Meanwhile IBM […]

KubeCon’s Europe 2018 Event Highlights Kubernetes’ Progress, Expansion KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 ran from May 2-4 at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event showcased the latest developments in the cloud-native market, which has the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system at its core. Among the highlights of the event were multiple sessions on […]

SafeBreach announced on May 8 that it raised $15 million in a Series B round of funding to help advance the company’s breach and attack simulation platform technologies. The funding round was led by Draper Nexus and included the participation of PayPal, Sequoia Capital, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners and HPE Pathfinder. The new funding brings total […]

Cyber-security isn’t just about detecting and preventing threats; it’s also about understanding risk, according to RSA Chief Technology Officer Zulfikar Ramzan. In a video interview with eWEEK, Ramzan provides insight into the evolving landscape for understanding cyber-risk and where RSA is enhancing its technologies to help organizations with cyber-risk quantification. Thinking about cyber-security in risk terms […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—The term “multi-cloud” is often heard at IT conferences today, but what does it really mean and is it a future state or something that is real today? In a video interview with eWEEK at the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 event here, Jason McGee, vice president and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform, detailed […]

If you’re a Twitter user, you’ve likely already got the message: It’s time to reset your password. Twitter announced on May 3 that it discovered an issue in its system that exposed user passwords to potential risk. The social network company began advising users late in the afternoon with an advisory, email messages sent to […]

Cloud-Native Technologies That Made an Impression at KubeCon EU 2018 Myriad vendors are using the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 event running May 2-4 in Copenhagen, Denmark, to make product announcements. Among those vendors is Google, which was the original author of Kubernetes, prior to contributing the effort to become the founding project at the […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Google is extending its container security capabilities with an expansion of the Cloud Security Command Center (SCC) via integrations with five container security vendors. The announcement was made at the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 event here on May 3. The five container security vendors that are part of the initial integration are Aqua […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Upbound, the primary sponsor of the open-source Rook cloud storage orchestration project, announced that it raised $9 million in a Series A round of funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures) on May 2. Upbound announced its new funding at the KubeCon and CloudNativeCon EU 2018 conference here, where the company has multiple talks […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—The Cloud Native Computing Foundation was started by the Linux Foundation in July 2015 with a single project and a handful of members. Now, the CNCF has more than 200 members and is the cornerstone for enabling the emerging era of multi-cloud application management and deployment, with Kubernetes at the core. In a video […]

The annual Facebook F8 conference is generally a developer conference and not typically the place where security has been on the keynote stage, but that wasn’t the case for the 2018 event. At the F8 2018 event on May 1, Facebook CSO Alex Stamos delivered a keynote address that explained how Facebook secures itself and […]