Sean Michael Kerner

Juniper Networks announced new security products and capabilities at its annual NXTWORK customer event on Dec. 13. The aim of the new capabilities is to make security simpler to manage and operate by automating security tasks. Among the new security capabilities is the Junos Space Security Director, which now boasts automated policy management features. Juniper […]

Microsoft released its final regularly scheduled Patch Tuesday security update on Dec. 12, with patches for 32 different issues. Additionally, Microsoft released an advisory for an Active Directory cloud flaw, that does not have a formal patch. Out of the 32 patched vulnerabilities, 20 were rated by Microsoft as Critical, with 12 rated as Important. […]

Oracle announced an expanded set of capabilities for its cloud security portfolio on Dec. 11, providing enhanced identity and configuration services to help protect against threats. The new capabilities extend the Oracle Identity Security Operations Center (SOC) that was first announced at the Gartner IAM (Identity and Access Management) conference in 2016. The system will now provide […]

Users of a number of different HP laptops are being urged to update drivers, after security researcher Michael Myng revealed a potential keylogger risk with the integrated Synaptics Touchpad driver. Myng who is also known by his online alias ZwClose, first publicly mentioned the issue in a Twitter message on Dec. 6. In a message sent […]

Menlo Security announced on Dec. 11 that it has closed a $40 million Series C round of funding, which it intends to use to grow its security isolation platform. The new round, which included the participation of American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures and HSBC, brings total funding to date for the company to $85 million. […]

Game of Thrones is one of the most popular TV series in the world with fans watching both on the regular HBO network as well as via the HBO Go streaming service. There are many different technical challenges for streaming a popular show like Game of Thrones and to help solve some of them, HBO’s […]

KubeCon Puts Latest Cloud-Native Technologies on Center Stage The KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 conference, which ran from Dec. 6-8 in Austin, Texas, highlighted the latest and greatest in cloud-native computing technologies. The open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) got its start in July 2015 with a single project: the Kubernetes container orchestration platform, […]

The Bitcoin crypto-currency is one the biggest financial stories of 2017, increasing dramatically in value over the past 12 months from $1,000 in January to as high as $20,000 on Dec. 7. As Bitcoin’s value has grown, so too have its risks, as sites struggle to remain both available and safe. The most recent security […]

Apple on Dec. 6 released macOS High Sierra 10.13.2, a security update that patches multiple security issues in the desktop operating system, including a critical root password vulnerability, as well as provided details on the security content of iOS 11.2. iOS 11.2 became generally available on Dec. 2, though Apple withheld information on the included […]

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) kicked off its Kubecon CloudNativeCon North America conference on Dec. 6 with a host of announcements about its’ expanding open-source cloud efforts. The CNCF is home to the Kubernetes container orchestration system as well as 13 additional cloud project that enable organizations to build cloud native architectures. Among the […]

IBM announced a series of new partnerships on Dec. 6 that provide expanded multifactor authentication integration capabilities.   Among the new partner integrations are apps from BuyPass, DualAuth, Imageware and Yubico. IBM is now enabling the partner multifactor authentication (MFA) technologies through its IBM Security Access Manager (ISAM) platform. The partner integrations expand the native capabilities […]

Pivotal announced the latest update to its Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform on Dec. 5, along with a preview of the company’s Kubernetes-powered container service and the launch of a new serverless effort. Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Pivotal’s core platform since the company was spun out from VMware in April 2013, is based on the open-source […]