With the deadline for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation barely a month away, companies are looking for tools to track and identify any and all information on European citizens that could be contained in corporate databases. The law provides European citizens with the “right to be forgotten,” but to meet that standard, companies ...

In February, Hortonworks Inc. announced general availability of DataFlow 3.1, the company’s data-in-motion platform for edge and streaming analytics. The release provided further evidence that Hortonworks intends to include edge computing in its competitive strategy for the Apache Hadoop market. “That certainly has to be a part of our strategy because it is part of ...

Tuesday’s release of a new service from Hortonworks Inc. for the security and governance of data assets — Data Steward Studio — was a positive addition for the enterprise computing community as the clock ticks toward the deadline for General Data Protection Regulation implementation on May 25. The regulation requires any company with data on European ...

When Tim Jefferson (pictured) was the head of security and networking business development for Amazon Web Services Inc., he gained insight into the friction that enterprise customers experienced when they moved data center security architectures into the public cloud. Inevitably, the pain points came from architectures that firewalls were deploying, designed to channel data center ...

Value chain security is an important component of the cybersecurity strategy for Cisco Systems Inc. The networking hardware provider manages a coordinated program spanning manufacturing, technical services and engineering teams to implement a comprehensive global supplier and channel partner security approach. Managing supply chain risk requires a comprehensive approach over the complete product or process ...

Interested in becoming a hacker? Not exactly sure where to start? No worries. Forget about looking for the necessary tools on the dark web, that corner of the internet reachable only through special software. Most of what’s needed is available on the open internet and the cost ranges from minimal to free. If people are ...

RSA Security LLC President Rohit Ghai delivered his opening keynote at the RSA Conference in San Francisco today with a surprisingly optimistic view of the trouble-plagued cybersecurity industry. “Cybersecurity is getting better, not worse,” Ghai (pictured) told the audience. After a pregnant silence, he added, “Folks, I’m not kidding!” You might expect a seller of ...

Are information technology executives prepared to accept that data stored in the cloud will be 75 percent secure? That’s one of the central questions that emerged today on the first day of the RSA Conference in San Francisco. A report released by McAfee Inc. today found that one in four organizations surveyed, based on a ...

The processing demands for a video content service like Netflix Inc. are almost unimaginable. A consumer audience of over 109 million subscribers enjoys 125 million hours of TV and movie content via the online subscriber service every single day. That places great demand on the company’s data ingestion pipeline and stream processing engines, which must ...

In the complicated world of debugging modern software, metric and log-based tools only go so far. A small team of 25 engineers is hard at work inside a three-year-old startup company to improve viewable insight for event-driven problems in network systems. “We are an observability platform to help people find the unknown unknowns,” said Christine ...