Sean Michael Kerner

Cloud to Be Dominant Form of Data Center Traffic by 2021, Cisco Reports The cloud, which already has had a dramatic impact on data traffic, will account for 95 percent of all data center traffic by 2021, according to a new report from Cisco. The Cisco Global Cloud Index (2016-2021) was released on Feb. 5, […]

Security firm Rapid7 announced a beta release of its new InsightPhish service on Feb. 6, providing organizations with a way to incorporate phishing defense into Security Operations (SecOps). The InsightPhish service provides phishing simulation, analysis and investigation capabilities and is built on top of the Rapid7 Insight platform, which provides security analytics. “InsightPhish is purpose-built for […]

The market and competition for container security technology is continuing to grow. Among the newest entrants in the space is Layered Insight which announced its new CEO Sachin Aggarwal on Feb. 5. Layered Insight got started in January 2015 and has been quietly building its technology and a business ever since. The company has not […]

Cisco along with partners Apple, Aon and Allianz announced a new cyber-risk partnership on Feb. 5 that will bring cyber-security services and insurance to organizations. The partnership effort includes a cyber-risk assessment service from Aon to help organizations understand and evaluate security posture. Cisco brings its security technologies to the partnership to help enforce and […]

LibreOffice 6.0 Polishes Open-Source Office Productivity Suite The open-source LibreOffice office application suite has been the standard office productivity suite in Linux distributions since 2010, when it was forked from the Oracle OpenOffice Suite. The latest update—LibreOffice 6.0, which was released on Jan. 31—provides incremental improvements to a number of components bundled as part of […]

The annual Pwn2own hacking competition run by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) is set to return for 2018, along with a longer list of targets and more money for security researchers, than ever before. Pwn2own is a security researcher contest that typically has two events a year, with the primary event focused on browser […]

SonicWall announced a series of technology previews on Feb. 1 that expand the cyber-security vendor’s product portfolio. Among the new products that are being made available as beta releases is the SonicWall Networks Security (NSv) firewall for virtualized environments. There is also a beta of the SonicWall Web Application Firewall (WAF) and a preview of […]

The Meltdown and Spectre CPU vulnerabilities were first publicly disclosed four weeks ago on Jan. 3, triggering a panicked volume of patching by both silicon and software vendors. But what actually is the risk and are there any known malware attacks that are exploiting the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities today? First the bad news, there […]

Unauthorized crypto-currency mining attacks, sometimes referred to as “cryptojacking” have become an all too common occurrence in recent months.  A report released on Jan. 31 by Cisco’s Talos research group sheds some light on the tools and techniques used in crypto-currency mining attacks. The report also reveals how profitable the top crypto-mining operations could be. […]

Container security vendor StackRox announced its Detect and Respond 2.0 release on Jan. 31, providing an updated set of capabilities for organizations to help protect against security threats. The StackRox Detect and Respond 2.0 update benefits from the new StackRox Adversarial Intent Model (AIM). AIM is a threat model that guides StackRox’s threat research and […]

10 Cyber-Security Startups Get Funding to Advance Their Work The first month of 2018 began much as the last month of 2017 concluded, with multiple cyber-security startups raising new funding. In January 2018, venture capitalists invested in a number of types of cyber-security technology, in both single- and double-digit funding rounds. The largest funding for […]

Red Hat announced on Jan. 30 that it is acquiring privately-held container Linux and Kubernetes vendor CoreOS, in a deal valued at $250 million. CoreOS was founded in 2013 and had raised a total of $48 million in funding including a $28 million round that was announced in May 2016. In an eWEEK video at […]