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The enterprise must approach APIs as a unique class of assets, says CISO
Application programming interfaces changed the way developers work by expediting and facilitating several core aspects of the process, from feature addition to new language localization. However, as the enterprise navigates today’s atmosphere of magnified cybersecurity threat instances, the approach to securing APIs must be distinct from the other assets in an organization’s digital infrastructures for ...
Orgs adopt military mindset to combat rising cybersecurity attacks
War and conflict have evolved past guns and tanks and are now commonly fought with more subtle weapons. So, another dimension to the expanding cybersecurity threat landscape is the weaponization of computing by foreign actors on their sovereign nation enemies. Companies in countries like the U.S. have to combat threats both from private actors and ...
SecurityScorecard helps orgs quantify cybersecurity vulnerabilities and weak points in real time
With every passing day, it seems that enterprises become increasingly liable to fall prey to cybersecurity landmines, the number of which is steadily increasing. Given this scenario, it makes sense that companies are now looking for preemptive ways to track the exposure of their digital assets in today’s distributed ecosystem, and SecurityScorecard Inc. provides such ...
Cloud security challenges facing CISOs today and new threat mitigation strategies
Cybersecurity extends beyond just public and on-premises cloud infrastructures. However, even just narrowing it to those environments, it’s evident that chief information officers, chief information security offers, and cybersecurity practitioners have their hands full in today’s threat landscape. “The CISOs that I speak with on the regular, there’s so much chaos out there about what they’re trying ...
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VMware strengthens partnerships, product line to further its multicloud mission
If we look back to last year, VMware Inc. was one of the first companies to acknowledge the cloud chaos currently underway and work toward easing that pain point with its cross-cloud solutions. Now, the company is doubling down on that mission by updating its offerings and strengthening partnerships to better cater to the enterprise’s ...
VMware empowers innovative orgs to explore new multicloud frontiers
In the race to define what theCUBE has termed “supercloud,” VMware Inc. has taken a substantive lead by exploring a crop of constituent technologies under a collective umbrella that the company has chosen to term “cross-cloud services.” This week, VMware’s Explore event is focusing on the discourse around the paths less traveled in the fledgling ...
Former JSOC CTO takes aims at stopping cyberattacks before they happen with Horizon3 AI
Organizations aren’t always sure if their defense frameworks and cybersecurity posture are up to the challenge … until an actual attack or breach happens. This raises the question: Can organizations efficiently create and maintain an upright security posture without having to test-drive it via debilitating attacks? Horizon3 AI Inc. might have an answer. “What I ...
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Why data fragmentation is the No. 1 concern for today’s cloud-focused enterprises
The ubiquity of ransomware attacks has become such a scary scenario for enterprises that the issue has escalated to a board-level one. With data as the uber-valuable commodity it is today — and given the rate at which it’s sprawling — an inevitable fragmentation has created fertile ground for ransomware actors to operate. “Every year ...
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Harnessing supercloud: Experts weigh in on enablers and blockers
As new enterprise cloud paradigms bloom into maturity, there has always been discussion within the information technology and developer communities about the components that could make it sink or swim. Supercloud is a new idea, and thought leaders recently got together to discuss those factors. “They’d try things out, they’d go to the cloud, they’d spin things ...
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Forget ‘shift left,’ there’s another shift currently underway: It’s called supercloud
When cloud vendors engage with organizations, one recurring pain point is the complexity that accompanies distributed infrastructures that are oftentimes vastly heterogeneous. At the same time, companies need these heterogeneous multicloud environments for scale and efficiency. Supercloud architectures bridge these trade-offs and allow mostly win-win situations for enterprises, according to Kit Colbert (pictured), chief technology ...