The past two years have brought a significant amount of societal change, including the way we work. This shift in lifestyle to one that is largely digital also brought about a surge in cyberattacks, which rose in both frequency and complexity last year, with several threats causing concern among industry experts into 2022. The cyberattacks ...

Arista Networks Inc. announced today that it’s embedding network detection and response or NDR capabilities into its network switches. With an upgrade to EOS, Arista’s operating system, the 720XP series of switches will have NDR baked into it. The NDR capabilities, which Arista gained through its recent Awake Security acquisition, will give organizations greater visibility, automated ...

F5 Inc., a leader in application delivery controllers, today announced its new software-as-a-service Distributed Cloud Services platform. The new solution is the coming together of several acquisitions, including Volterra and Shape Security. Network functions include cloud load balancing, multicloud networking, cloud-native edge computing services and a Kubernetes gateway. Security services comprise F5’s new Distributed Cloud ...

Cisco Systems Inc. just released one of its largest-ever cybersecurity studies, providing a detailed view into the top five security practices proven to be most effective for organizations. Cisco claims that those adopting the top practices can propel their security programs ahead of 79% of other organizations. “Security Outcomes Study Volume 2” not only explores key ...

Just a few days ago, a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) was discovered in the well-known Apache Log4j logging library that allowed attackers full remote code execution. The Apache Software Foundation released a patch and mitigation details allowing information technology administrators to update their software quickly. Because Apache Struts is used so widely used in the enterprise, this flaw ...

Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent conference this week was the coming-out party for new CEO Adam Selipsky as he takes the reins that were once held by now Amazon.com Inc. CEO Andy Jassy, and I found his keynote to be much different from Jassy’s. Not better per se, but it had a notable shift away from ...

Nvidia Corp.’s GPU Technology Conference, being held this week in digital format, has evolved over the years from a hard-core tech event for pure propellerheads to more of an industry event where the latest and greatest innovations in accelerated computing are highlighted. This includes a wide range of use cases, including ray tracing, autonomous vehicles, ...

When it comes to working, much has happened over the course of the pandemic. Employees have demonstrated their ability to work from anywhere and embraced the opportunity to cut out long commutes and add more personal time to their day. Many are not ready to give these benefits up, at least not entirely. But there is ...

Zscaler Inc. and Siemens AG announced an interesting partnership this week wherein the two vendors are bringing zero-trust security to operational technology systems. OT systems are most commonly found in industrial networks but are seeing increased adoption in other industries. Historically, OT systems ran on their own proprietary networks that were often isolated from the ...

Earlier this month, Cisco’s AppDynamics group released the results of its latest App Attention Index, which measures customer attitudes toward applications and digital services — and unsurprisingly, the study found that consumers reliance on digital services has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic began. That’s consistent with my discussions with business leaders, most of whom have ...