John Casaretto

SiliconANGLE's CyberSecurity Editor - Have a story tip or feedback? Please reach out to me! Security is as critical as ever and our mission is to uncover those stories that will help our industry be more secure.

Latest from John Casaretto

Codero’s Disruptive Storage Pricing and Free Backups for Life

It’s easy to like today’s news from Austin’s Codero Hosting.  With all new NAS and SAN storage options, they are taking on their competitors and beating the competitor’s prices by a significant margin. The promotional pricing for the services gets customers storage at 4¢ per gigabyte.  You know we sit here, we pick the news, ...

Google Now Lands in Apple App Store – Look Out Siri

Google is moving onto Siri’s turf with the release of Google Now now available for iPhone and iPad platforms. The voice-actuated system has been running on Android-based phones for some time now. Its powerful features are sort of a pocket-based concierge, able to not only search Google, but the ability to control your phone, much ...

Breaking – CISPA Shot Down on Privacy Concerns

It seems that CISPA has been put on the shelf for the time being, based on privacy concerns. It is also looking like a new separate bill will thus be drafted in the Senate. “We’re not taking [CISPA] up,” the committee representative says. “Staff and senators are divvying up the issues and the key provisions ...

HP Launches New Enterprise-Ready TippingPoint IPS Security Appliances

Today’s real world security challenges call for the highest capability solutions. In the enterprise, its as critical as anything else on your plate. The demands of the modern infrastructure cover the data center, remote office and branch locations, WAN deployment, cloud deployment, the classic perimeter, wireless and more. We always talk about security layers, but ...

HP Announces New App Testing and Patch Management in WebInspect 10.0

The security game has forever changed, today’s IT environments require way more than old-fashioned perimeter security.  I could spend the better part of a day making a list of ways of putting security together, so the list of tasks is not small.  Companies are definitely stepping up to these challenges- both those that products and ...

Anatomy of a Breach – Global Incidents Call for Systematic Response, Planning – HP Enterprise Security Services

Another week, another major hack story. In the meantime we witness all these different attempts to stem these attacks using a number of approaches that are well-accepted, but not exactly universal in their application. This means things like perimeter security, proactive security practices, signature-based, and all the goodies that come along with that such as ...

Sumo Logic Sets Up Analytics, Big Data in the Cloud

In a briefing this week, Sumo Logic CEO Vance Loiselle announced the company’s new cloud Log Management, Monitoring and Analytics capabilities in Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) environments. The new features allow organizations to start to collect and analyze information of all types that are in these environments in addition to existing on-premise capabilities. The tools ...

Microsoft Monetizes Android in Foxconn Deal

We all know who Foxconn is. They’re the manufacturing company that actually makes the components and products that go into the consumer electronic products we all know as Apple, Samsung, HTC, LG, and others. They build components, assemble products and supply these other manufacturers. It’s been pretty fascinating to watch all the Microsoft bashing that ...

Cloud Services Brokerage Jamcracker Releases JSDN 6.0 with Global Business in Mind

Jamcracker’s Services Delivery Network released a new version update yesterday. This is actually a new version of its powerful tools that are designed help organizations run and manage cloud services with a complete enterprise framework amongst a number of cloud service providers. The new updated APIs are immediately available and they include global business-focused features ...

ForgeRock – Identity Management Solution Secures $15Million

ForgeRock made a major investment announcement today. A $15 Million Series B round of venture capital financing was secured, led by Foundation Capital and participated in by Accel Partners. ForgeRock is based in San Francisco and is a leader in open source identity and access management solutions. Their product allows for modern, secure access methods ...