Sean Michael Kerner

Mark Shuttleworth’s company Canonical has been developing Ubuntu Linux for more than a decade, with two new major milestone releases debuting every year. In 2017, the first release will be Ubuntu 17.04, codenamed the ‘Zesty Zapus’ set to debut in April. The big question that Ubuntu Linux fans have though is what the Ubuntu 17.10 […]

Understanding security risk across an organization is often a complex task, but a new platform announced Jan. 30 by TechDemocracy could make it easier. The TechDemocracy Intellicta platform aims to provide organizations with insight and visibility into security risks and compliance. “The intent of Intellicta is to provide an end-to-end holistic view of an organization […]

Understanding how a potential threat will be handled by enterprise security technologies is a challenge that NSS Labs’ Cyber Advanced Warning System (CAWS) platform aims to help solve. The CAWS 2.2 platform debuted on Jan. 24, providing new capabilities to help improve enterprise security. NSS Labs defines CAWS as a cyber threat protection platform and […]

F5 Networks is growing its security capabilities with the launch of the new Herculon product lineup. The new security products complement existing F5 capabilities as the company aims to grow its security business. The new Herculon products were announced on Jan. 25, the same day F5 announced its first quarter fiscal 2017 earnings. For the […]

7 Security Firms that Raised Venture Funding in January 2017 The new year has started off with a flurry of fund raising activity in the security space as startups seek to fuel growth with new capital. Bitglass Secures $45M Series C Among the first security firms to announce funding in 2017 was Cloud Access Security […]

The emerging world of serverless computing could soon see another viable option if the open-source Fission effort that Platform9 is helping to lead is successful. Serverless computing, also sometimes referred to as event driven programming, is a model of cloud services deployment that doesn’t require long lived servers in order to run application functions. It’s […]

Facebook announced on Jan. 26 that it is supporting Security Key technology, based on the FIDO Alliance Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) standard, in an effort to improve security and reduce the risk of user account takeovers. With an increasing volume of data breaches that have leaked user passwords, the need for strong authentication methods, beyond […]

Security vendor Sophos announced the official launch of its Phish Threat attack simulator on Jan. 25, in an effort to help improve end-user and organizational readiness for phishing attacks. Sophos didn’t build the Phish Threat technology on its own, rather the platform was acquired from privately-held security consultancy Silent Break Security in November 2016. Phish […]

Mozilla released its first new browser milestone of 2017 on Jan. 24, with the debut of Firefox 51. The new open-source browser release includes enhanced capabilities that will further enable online gaming, as well as security enhancements and patches for 24 different security vulnerabilities. WebGL2, which is an 3D graphics standard, is now supported in […]

Kroll Report Finds Fraud, Cyber-Attacks Increased in 2016 The Kroll Global Fraud and Risk Report for 2016 shows that cyber-fraud incidents increased during 2016, though not all the news was bad. Fraud Increased in 2016 According to the Kroll Global Fraud and Risk Report, fraud has been increasing steadily since 2012. For 2016, 82 percent […]

Security vendor Bromium announced its new Secure Platform technology on Jan. 24, providing organizations with new capabilities to correlate threat information from endpoint sensors, in an effort to defend against attacks. According to Simon Crosby, Bromium co-founder and CTO, the Bromium Secure Platform technology marks the completion of the vision that the company first set […]

Apple released its first operating system updates of 2017 on Jan. 23, with the debut of macOS 10.12.3 on the desktop and IOS 10.2.1 for iPhone and iPad users. The updates are the first since December 2016, when Apple released macOS 10.12.2 and IOS 10.2. The IOS 10.2.1 update provides patches for 18 vulnerabilities, while […]