John Casaretto

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Boundary rolls out major upgrade, helping customers find problems 75% faster

Boundary has announced some major upgrades to its IT operations monitoring software.  They’ve made major improvements to the user experience, customized event dashboards and integrated faster deployments of Boundary meters.  Also, the meter coverage and capabilities have been extended to better handle denial of service attacks, and they are now supporting three new operating systems: ...

Shape Security nabs additional $40 Million to take on bots

Barely a month after they emerged from stealth and announced their arrival, Shape Security is back in the news.  Today they’ve announced raising $40 Million in Series C funding and plan to expand their product and workforce with the proceeds. This round of venture capital funding was led by Norwest Venture Partners.  It’s a fast ...

AT&T and IBM simplify security services, take on modern cyber threats

IBM and AT&T have announced a series of major enhancements in their IT security capabilities that give mutual clients the ability to manage hybrid IT environments and to apply big data and analytics to secure them.  The developments come as companies that do business online have seen a number of security challenges in the face ...

New DigiCert tool identifies and helps fix SSL vulnerabilities

Digital certificates are a big part of the enterprise security picture, but often times issues that are found within an environment aren’t really fixed until it’s too late.  SSL/TLS certificates are often mismanaged, rife with issues like a lack of best practice, misconfiguration, expired certificates and just plain and simple errors.  The implications could mean ...

HP grants $250,000 to scholarship for women studying IT security

The security skills gap – it’s an ugly topic that comes up time and again. Without a doubt this is one of the biggest concerns on a lot of people’s minds in the industry. There is a massive amount of security threats and there is a significant chasm of experienced talent to be had for ...

HP Security goes social with security by crowdsourcing threat intelligence

HP’s Security division is introducing a collaborative security intelligence platform today.  It is designed to let security vendors across the landscape exchange threat data, analysis and mitigation strategies to disrupt threats.  It’s all about information, and by sharing targeted intelligence in real time, HP is aiming to build a unified industry defense.  Information sharing has ...

FireEye Threat Analytics Security Platform at RSA

RSA 2014 starts today and we can expect there will be a number of new security announcements surrounding the San Francisco, CA event throughout the week.  One of the most watched companies in the industry, FireEye will feature their latest product development, building on the popular platform.  Threat analytics are being introduced and are expected ...

Condition critical! – SANS-Norse Cyberthreat report shows major hospital security issues

SANS, sponsored by Norse – a provider of cloud-based threat intelligence solutions, has published a new healthcare cybersecurity report. The news is not good – condition critical you could say.  Lots of bad things are happening and they are happening in our hospitals.  It’s more than just Affordable Care Act, economic pressure or even ‘meaningful ...

Sumo Logic introducing Machine Data Security Intelligence

RSA is around the corner and there are plenty of announcements hitting the wire leading into the annual security convention.  New waves of technology, product revisions and a fair share of new products can be expected, but once in a while an announcement emerges that uncovers a feature and a new focus on an existing ...

Rising cloud-storage trends – Egnyte and the power of choice

IHS Technology announced this week that spending for cloud infrastructure and services will reach about $174.2 billion this year.  That’s a 20 percent increase from the year before.  It’s an indicator of this continuing shift towards cloud services that was breaking away from what many consider to be traditional infrastructures.  As apps, services, and infrastructure ...