Sean Michael Kerner

IBM announced on Jan. 23 its intent to acquire privately-held Agile 3 Solutions in an effort to further improve IBM Security’s risk management capabilities. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Agile 3 Solutions is an IT risk management vendor with several different products and services. Among Agile 3’s products is a […]

In January 2014, the GitHub distributed version control code repository first launched a bug bounty program, rewarding security researchers for responsibly disclosing software vulnerabilities. Now three years later in January 2017, GitHub is celebrating the third anniversary of its bug bounty program, with bonus rewards for the top submissions made in January and February. The […]

Trustwave Report Shows Enterprises Can’t Hire Enough Security Staff Finding qualified IT Security staff is hard enough, but if these specialists fail to help an organization meet regulatory compliance it’s likely they’ll be fired, a Trustwave survey finds. Finding IT Talent is a Challenge When asked about the biggest challenges related to IT security staffing, […]

Security firm Invincea is expanding its portfolio with a new managed services offering that provides organizations with deployment, management and monitoring capabilities. The new X-as-a-Service (XaaS) by Invincea managed services offering builds on Invincea’s May 2016 debut of its X next-generation anti-virus endpoint security technology. X by Invincea makes use of deep learning capabilities to […]

Docker officially announced its 1.13 release on Jan. 19, with new capabilities to help build, manage and secure containers. Among the interesting new capabilities in Docker 1.13 are several new commands that enable users to understand and manage container storage space usage. The new ‘docker system prune’ command will remove unused data, while the ‘docker […]

Oracle is out with its first Critical Patch Update (CPU) for 2017 and it’s a big one. In total, Oracle is patching a staggering 270 different vulnerabilities across its software portfolio, with 121 patches in Oracle’s E-Business Suite alone. Though the January 2017 CPU is a large, it isn’t quite the largest patch update that […]

Over the last decade, the Zero Day Initiative’s (ZDI) annual Pwn2Own competition has emerged to become one of the premiere events on the information security calendar and the 2017 edition does not look to be any different. For the tenth anniversary of the Pwn2Own contest, ZDI, now owned and operated by Trend Micro, is going […]

Red Hat announced the release of its OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 on Jan. 18, providing enterprises with new container management capabilities. The new release follows the OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 milestone that debuted in September 2016. OpenShift is comprised of components from the open-source Kubernetes container management project, including additional capabilities and enhanced interfaces from […]

The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced its new Compute Module 3 (CM3) on Jan. 16, providing internet of things (IoT) device makers with a powerful new option for embedded compute capabilities. The CM3 should not be confused with the Raspberry Pi’s namesake device, which had its last major update in February 2016 with the debut of […]

Resolve to Follow These 8 Steps for Better Data Security in 2017 The start of the new year is a great time to revisit best practices and improve the fitness of your online security. Change Your Passwords Some, but not all, sites and services will remind users automatically after a set period of time to […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) released its State of Security Operations Report 2017 on Jan. 17, providing insights into what Security Operation Centers (SOCs) are doing right and what they’re doing wrong. Among the highlighted findings in the report is that 82 percent of SOCs are not at their optimal maturity level, to help limit risk […]

A new security vendor is officially starting up today, with the launch of OPAQ Networks (pronounced opaque). As part of the official launch, OPAQ Networks also announced that it has raised $21 million in a Series A round of funding. While OPAQ is a new company, it’s largely based on the technology assets and customers […]