Sean Michael Kerner

7 Cyber-Security Vendors That Raised New Funding in April 2018 April was another busy month for cyber-security startups, with venture capitalists funding at least seven such companies. The largest amount raised during the month was a $31 million round that went to business-critical application security vendor Onapsis. Armis raised nearly as much, bringing in $30 […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—The open-source Kubernetes project is not just a container orchestration system, it can also be a platform for deploying and managing applications. That’s the goal of the Kubernetes Operator Framework project, which Red Hat officially announced on May 1 at the Kubecon EU conference here. The basic idea behind the Operator Framework comes to […]

Splunk is expanding its enterprise and cloud capabilities in a series of new updates, and will debut on May 1 Splunk Insights for Infrastructure. The updates include new versions of Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise, as well as Splunk IT Service Intelligence, Splunk User Behavior Analytics and the Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK). Among the […]

Cybersecurity startup Wallarm announced the launch of its Framework for Automatic Security Testing (FAST) technology on April 26, providing organizations with a new approach to scan applications for potential security risks. The FAST product enables automated security test generation that can be used to look for both known and unknown vulnerabilities in running code. With […]

When Amazon first started the enterprise cloud revolution with the launch of Amazon Web Services (AWS) back in 2006 there wasn’t a clear indication if it would be a profitable venture. A dozen years later and the answer is a definitive yes, with AWS reporting on April 26 revenue of $5.4 billion in its 2018 […]

Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver LTS Release Gets a New Linux Desktop Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, officially released Ubuntu 18.04, the Bionic Beaver, on April 26. This is the first Long Term Support (LTS) Ubuntu release since the launch of Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus in 2016. In contrast to regular […]

SAP users are being advised by security firm Onapsis to review their software configuration settings to mitigate the risk of a default setting that could expose all SAP implementations to exploitation by attackers. Onapsis released a report on April 26 detailing the configuration vulnerability that impacts SAP NetWeaver, which is a foundational component for running […]

Less than a month after its last set of security updates, Apple released a new set of security patches for both iOS and macOS on April 24. For its iOS mobile operating system, Apple has released version 11.3.1; on the desktop, the update is identified as Security Update 2018-001 for macOS High Sierra 10.13.4. For […]

On April 25, security firm Checkmarx publicly disclosed that it has found that a malicious developer can trick Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant technology to record everything a user says. At this time, it’s not clear if any hackers have ever exploited the flaw, which is not in the Amazon Echo hardware, but rather is an […]

Some companies have a single CTO, but IBM isn’t just any company. IBM has multiple CTOs spread across its’ organizational chart. Among them is Sridhar Muppidi who serves as VP and CTO IBM Security. In a video interview with eWEEK, Muppidi discusses what the role of CTO entails at IBM Security. He also provides insight […]

For last two decades, the IPtables technology has been the cornerstone of Linux networking implementations, including new container models. On April 24, the open-source Cilium 1.0 release was launched, providing a new alternative to IPtables by using BPF (Berkeley Packet Filter), which improves both networking and security. The Cilium project’s GitHub code repository defines the […]

RSA Conference 2018: Finding the Silver Linings in Cyber-Security The annual RSA Conference ran from April 16 to 20 in San Francisco, filling the cavernous halls of the North, South and West buildings of the Moscone Center, as well as conference space at the nearby Marriott Marquis Hotel. More than 42,000 attendees were at the […]