The United States Air Force calls its coding initiative the Pathfinder Project, but the airmen participating in a new approach for the delivery of combat applications preferred to name their work after a hyperspace route used by renegade freighter captains in the legendary “Star Trek” television series: Kessel Run. “The joke is that we’re delivering ...

In the fast-moving world of cybersecurity, the operative word today is fatigue. Information technology organizations have alert fatigue from having to deal with every possible minute-by-minute hint of a data breach or ransomware attack. Enterprise security executives are worn out from endless meetings and board-level discussions about corporate risk profiles. Cybersecurity professionals are so fatigued ...

With tens of thousands of cybersecurity professionals attending the RSA Conference in San Francisco, California, this month, the chances were good that a few of them celebrated birthdays. But it’s unlikely that any of them celebrated a birthday as recent as Michael Daniel (pictured), because his milestone was one year old. As the president and ...

Nearly one year ago, IBM Corp. announced plans to combine its data science platform with Hortonworks Inc.’s software for data management. What IBM brought to the partnership was its Data Science Experience, or DSX, solution, designed to let developers create analytics models and machine learning tools quickly. Since then, IBM has been fine-tuning its data science ...

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 ...