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  • Alcide Report Finds 75% Will Increase the Number of Cloud Security Tools They Rely On Over the Next 12 Months

    As Hybrid Cloud and Serverless Continue to Gain Ground, Organizations Rush to Keep Up; Fewer than Half Have Dedicated Cloud Security Teams

    Tel Aviv – November 6, 2018 – Alcide, provider of the most comprehensive full-stack cloud-native security platform, today released the findings of a new industry report: 2018 Report: The State of Securing Cloud Workload based on responses from close to 350 security, DevOps and IT leaders. The report reveals that as more organizations embrace hybrid cloud – with more than 50 percent claiming a hybrid cloud setup – and serverless, now used by close to third of organizations, they lack the tools and specialization to keep up. 75 percent of respondents expect to see an increase in the number of security tools they rely on in the next year, while over half share they still manually configure security policies. The resulting complexity has the potential to slow critical business functions in the absence of an integrated security approach to distributed cloud environments.

    According to a recent report from 451 Research:

    The pace of innovation on cloud-native environments places significant burden on traditional security practices. Not only is there a need to support new technology options – quickly moving from traditional virtual machines to containers, serverless, and newer constructs such as service mesh – but there is also a difference in how security and DevOps teams consider their needs and workflows.

    Alcide’s report, conducted in August 2018 in conjunction with Informa Engage, reinforces the idea that new practices and technologies are disrupting traditional security practices, with findings including:

    Cloud complexity increasing, with hybrid cloud as the new infrastructure normal:

    • While virtual machines (VMs) remain the most common cloud computing environment (83%), containers (37%), serverless (28%), and service mesh (21%) are gaining traction.
    • Hybrid and multi-cloud approaches now make up more than three-quarters of all configurations (77%).

    Serverless running in production; most bullish about its security

    • Despite some security concerns, the majority (57%) of serverless users are currently running it in both production and development.
    • The majority currently using serverless have a high degree of confidence in its security, while one third (32%) express a lack of confidence in the security of their environments.

    As cloud infrastructure complexity grows, security becomes a shared responsibility with DevOps

    • Fewer than half of organizations (45%) now have a dedicated security team responsible for the cloud, with 35% of all organizations now using either a DevOps team or dedicated DevSecOps team for security.

    Hybrid cloud complexity pushes Dev, Sec and Ops teams to look for more tools to secure their distributed environments

    • Over two-thirds (75%) expect to increase the number of tools in use over the next twelve months – with no one expecting to retire any tools in use
    • One-third of organizations reporting using more than five tools for cloud security

    Proliferation of cloud security tools leave the enterprise vulnerable, point to need for intelligent policy automation

    • More than half (60%) of organizations rely on manual configurations of security policies for their apps, while almost all organizations (90%) rely on multiple individuals to configure and set policy rules.

    “Our report validates what we’ve seen with our own customers – modern organizations are striving for a consolidated security approach that will support business velocity and tackle the challenges associated with the overhead of multiple tools in use,” said Karine Regev, VP Marketing of Alcide. “Modern teams can’t assume that emerging technologies like serverless are secure, and need a practical and uniform enforcement and management of security policies to control disparate and cloud-native services, infrastructure and environments.”

    Access the full report here for additional insight.

    About Alcide:

    Alcide’s Cloud Native Security Platform protects any combination of container, serverless, VM and bare metal. Offering real-time, aerial visibility, threat protection and security policies enforcement, Alcide secures the cloud infrastructure, workloads and service mesh against cyber-attacks, including malicious internal activity, lateral movement and data exfiltration. For more information, please visit www.alcide.io

  • Banks’ Ability to Maximize Their Use of New Digital Technologies May Be Hindered by Slow Transition to the Cloud, New Research from Accenture Shows

    NEW YORK; Nov. 5, 2018 – Although the majority of banks recognize the advantages of building new information technology (IT) systems on cloud platforms, many have been slow to transition to the cloud, and only one in four has a solid strategy for cloud adoption, according to a new report from Accenture (NYSE: ACN).

    The report — titled “Cloud and Clear, Accenture Cloud Readiness Report – Banking” and based on a global survey of banking executives — finds that cloud adoption is integral to enabling banks to quickly add new online services, develop applications and improve customer experience. The top benefits that surveyed bankers expect from cloud adoption are the ability to scale their IT operations up — and down — as needed (cited by 77 percent) and the ability to launch applications faster (63 percent); only 49 percent cited cost savings as a top benefit.

    However, more than two-fifths (43 percent) of the bank executives surveyed said their banks lack a strategy for cloud adoption or have only started to implement basic cloud practices, and only 26 percent have what Accenture considers a solid cloud-adoption strategy, which includes ongoing measurement of efficiencies for continuous improvement.

    “To drive growth, banks must provide customers with a stellar digital experience, and cloud is a core component to accomplishing this,” said Andrew Poppleton, head of the technology advisory practice within Accenture’s Financial Services operating group. “Cloud provides the capacity and agility that banks need to use big data and analytics to identify the best products and services for their customers and to quickly develop and get them to market, which is crucial to keeping pace with competitors in this digital age.”

    According to the report, banks’ initial focus on the cloud has traditionally centered around infrastructure-related functions. The survey found that the two most-common functions that banks have moved, or are in the process of moving, to the cloud are disaster recovery (cited by 80 percent of respondents) and data backup (74 percent). Banks have also made progress in identifying which legacy applications are good candidates for early migration to the cloud, with the top three being retail customer access channels, such as email, mobile, internet and ATM (cited by 65 percent of respondents); foreign exchange (60 percent); and regulatory reporting (40 percent).

    However, the report identifies two impediments to banks’ wide-spread cloud implementation:

    • Existing legacy IT infrastructure. Nearly all bank executives surveyed said they expect that transitioning to the cloud will require new IT operating models. In fact, more than two-thirds (69 percent) intend to operate in a “bimodal” way — maintaining key legacy systems and those not easily replicated on cloud platforms, while transferring other systems and adding new applications in the cloud.
    • A skills gap. Although nearly nine out of 10 bankers (89 percent) surveyed rated the skills and experience of their employees in charge of cloud strategy and management as “mature” or “advanced,” they were less confident about their teams’ ability to manage cloud infrastructure and applications. Specifically, more than half (55 percent) rated their team’s skill level as “novice” or having “no experience” in managing cloud infrastructure, and 40 percent gave the same skill rating for managing cloud applications.

    “The cloud provides extraordinary opportunities for banks to transform how they conceptualize, develop, manage and sell their products and services — but this can’t be accomplished without the right talent in place to advance the cloud agenda,” said Chad Duncan, a managing director in Accenture’s Financial Services technology advisory practice. “At the same time, our research shows that many banks still lack a comprehensive strategy to rapidly shift to the cloud, leading to limited deployment. Because cloud is fundamental to how banks will conduct business and grow in the future, it’s time to move past the experimental phase and put an aggressive cloud transition strategy in place.”

    Methodology
    Accenture Research surveyed 35 banking executives responsible for technology and information security at global retail banks in North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Asia Pacific. The survey was conducted during November and December 2017.

  • Dell Boomi Enhances its Enterprise iPaaS Portfolio

    Dell Boomi Announces New API Gateway and Developer Portal, Self-Service Offering, Blockchain Integration, Data Services for Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Enterprise Innovation Services and Bot SDK 

    https://boomi.com/press_release/dell-boomi-enhances-its-enterprise-ipaas/

    LAS VEGAS – BOOMI WORLD 18 – November 6, 2018 – Dell Boomi™ (Boomi), the leading transformation provider of cloud integration and workflow automation software to build The Connected Business, announced, at Boomi World 18, the company’s latest additions to its integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) for today’s enterprise. The only vendor to offer a unified platform with built-in data quality and connectivity across the enterprise —from people, applications and databases to devices and things—Boomi defines the iPaaS industry today.

    With its latest capabilities for The Connected Enterprise —Boomi Connect Now, Boomi Data Services for Pivotal, Boomi API Gateway and Developer Portal, Bot SDK and new Professional Services offerings —Boomi provides the tools organizations need to support a breadth of use cases across all personas, ensuring both high productivity and IT control. Boomi democratizes integration, making it accessible to all users regardless of their level of technical expertise or role in the organization from citizen developers, business analysts and integration experts.

    “Sky’s mission is to connect customers to more of what they love. Dell Boomi’s ability to connect data, processes and people has an extremely positive impact on the experience Sky provides its 12 million UK customers,” said Olive Perrins, Service Strategy Manager at Sky. “Our people are critical to our success and being able to bring together our rich talent along with critical applications and data will be key to our continued success.”

    New highlights of Dell Boomi’s capabilities geared toward the enterprise include:

    • Boomi Connect Now – Allows partners and select customers to provide a centralized self-service offering for users who don’t have integration expertise. Boomi Connect Now increases productivity for the business user, customer, vendor or supplier by assisting in accomplishing quick, foolproof integrations, while IT still maintains total control.
    • Boomi API Gateway and Developer Portal – As we look to redefine the definition of integration to evolve beyond data and applications to include people, it’s increasingly important to facilitate secure and scalable interactions with external parties. By leveraging the gateway functionality, our customers will have increased confidence in the security and scalability of the services that they provide. Furthermore, with the developer portal, our customers will greatly enhance the discoverability and be able to engage at scale with their broader API consumers.
    • Data Services for Pivotal – Boomi and Pivotal now offer customers even faster deployment of the Boomi iPaaS, with deployment options available for Pivotal Kubernetes and Pivotal Application Services environments (PKS/PAS) from the Pivotal Cloud Foundry marketplace. This allows joint customers to rapidly respond to changing customer needs and provides a modernized IT infrastructure to help organizations become agile and cloud-first. Deep integration and seamless runtimes allow Boomi integration to fit seamlessly into Pivotal’s Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) framework.
    • Boomi Enterprise Innovation Services – The latest professional services offering from Boomi allows enterprise customers to collaborate with Boomi experts to achieve innovation and excellence at scale and fully capitalize on Boomi’s industry-leading integration cloud to build a connected business. Available as a subscription, Dell Boomi Enterprise Innovation Services provides a package of integration services, support and resources, with the flexibility to customize to specific customer needs.
    • Architectural Services – Allows customers to harness the full power of evolving IT architectures by partnering with Dell Boomi’s architectural experts. With this service, customers can collaborate with Boomi technical, solutions, business and enterprise architects who offer unmatched industry experience.
    • Blockchain – The evolution of business will require the ability to integrate with blockchain smart contracts. Boomi’s world-class platform offers support for the industry-leading blockchain platforms Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric, so customers will now be ready to quickly and easily incorporate smart contracts into their business processes.
    • Bot SDK – an accelerator toolkit that packages everything a Boomi developer needs to build a bot. Customers can now achieve faster time to market with bots that are highly integrated into their existing infrastructure and optimized for lead generation and ROI in as little as 15 minutes.

    Additional Leadership Quotes

    “Just as is the case today with most businesses requiring an integration platform solution like Dell Boomi that helps them solve their integration challenges of a hybrid landscape, business will need to solve challenges that now require integration of their hybrid landscape and blockchain smart contracts,” said Michael J. Morton, CTO, Boomi.

     “We are seeing Boomi developers build their presence at every enterprise organization, extending their reach within a line of business and influencing business decisions,” said Steve Wood, Chief Product Officer, Boomi. “With the continued growth of our enterprise offerings, we are committed to improving organizational productivity and helping developers lead their organizations—whether that’s doing their own custom work in the Boomi environment, supplementing it with outside sources and expertise or providing their organization the tools it needs to enable its own citizen integrators.”

    “Perficient has strong, strategic partnerships and implementation experience with Dell Boomi and Pivotal, key technologies which support IT modernization,” said Vishal Rajpal, general manager of Perficient’s cloud platform solutions group. “The depth and breadth of our experience and expertise positions us to expertly deliver these platforms, accelerating digital transformation for our clients. Together, these technologies unleash powerful application development and cloud integration capabilities that our customers need.”

    About Dell Boomi

    Dell Boomi (Boomi), an independent business unit of Dell, is the leading provider of a unified platform to build The Connected Business, from cloud integration to workflow automation. Boomi helps organizations accelerate business agility by connecting data, applications and people to run faster and smarter. Visit http://www.boomi.com for more information.

    © 2018 Boomi Inc. Dell, Boomi, and Dell Boomi are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other names or marks may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

  • Dell Boomi Reimagines iPaaS with Industry-Leading Intelligence, Blockchain Capabilities

    Powered by more than 20TB of data and a new, unmatched user experience journey

    https://boomi.com/press_release/dell-boomi-reimagines-ipaas-with-industry-leading-intelligence-blockchain/

    LAS VEGAS – Boomi World 18 – November 6, 2018 – Dell Boomi™ (Boomi), the leading enterprise transformation provider of cloud integration and workflow automation to build The Connected Business, announced at Boomi World its product vision to reinvent the iPaaS industry.  In the coming months, this vision will be incorporated into Boomi’s products, offerings and overall business strategy in order to continue to provide the best possible business outcomes for customers and partners.

    As a foundational technology for business transformation, an iPaaS needs to do more than just integrate applications. It needs to provide connectivity across the entire business ecosystem – the company, its partners and customers – and connect applications, people and things. And it needs to do so in a seamless, efficient manner that drives high productivity and faster time to outcomes. Today, Boomi is the only iPaaS solution that offers a unified platform, including:

    • Integrate – connect applications and data across your hybrid IT ecosystem
    • Hub – synchronize and enrich trusted data with a single source of truth across your enterprise
    • Exchange – manage your trading partner network using traditional EDI and modern web services protocols
    • Mediate – design, secure and scale APIs through their entire lifecycle
    • Flow – build customer journeys and automate simple and sophisticated workflows

    Boomi’s reinvented iPaaS includes:

    • Unmatched User Experience – Boomi understands that iPaaS is used by people with different levels of technical expertise, for a range of projects, from simple to complex. The new user experience (UX) is designed to meet every user – from Enterprise Architects to Citizen Integrators – at their level of expertise, and provide guidance best suited to the project or use case at hand.  Users can focus on the problems they are looking to solve and can easily complete projects or achieve business outcomes. From HR and finance to sales and operations, fully formed guidance and suggestion routes are provided.
    • Community Intelligence – In 2008, Boomi pioneered the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to simplify building and managing integration processes with Boomi Suggest, Boomi Resolve and Boomi Assure. Boomi’s vision builds on this foundation and incorporates intelligence into every step of the user’s journey, to enable them to complete their projects quickly and efficiently. With approximately 20 TB of anonymous metadata incorporated into the solutions’ intelligence, this pervasive knowledge is included in every aspect of the Boomi platform to help users be more productive. With the mindset of shared success, it shows users how to optimally configure Boomi for specific needs, based on feedback and insights from the community.
    • Simplified Collaboration – Given the importance of team work, Boomi’s new UX is designed to support real time collaboration across users and teams, with requisite controls and tracking.
    • Blockchain Integration – Boomi’s world class, unified platform offers support for industry-leading blockchain platforms Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric so customers will be ready to quickly and easily incorporate blockchain smart contracts into their business processes. During this time of the blockchain evolution, Boomi will be actively contributing to blockchain standards, and participating in various industry consortiums in order to influence the integration requirements customers will need to adopt blockchain.

    “iPaaS is no longer just about integration, it is about pervasive connectivity and business transformation. If a business simply emphasizes the ability to integrate, then it is only focusing on a piece of the puzzle,” said Steve Wood, Chief Product Officer at Dell Boomi. “Boomi offers an iPaaS platform that delivers transformation by connecting people as well as data. The iPaaS of today will not be the iPaaS of tomorrow and it is Boomi’s vision to redefine the market in order to provide the best integration cloud technology to our customers and partners.”

    “Flinders University prides itself for being an innovator in contemporary education and the source of Australia’s most enterprising graduates,” said Nicole Fishers, Associate Director, Digital Business Services & Deputy CIO at Flinders University. “We have recognized the vital need of progressive technology in the higher education industry and Boomi allows us to be connected across our entire organization. With more than 25,000 students, Boomi is helping us to provide them unprecedented access to information.”

  • ScyllaDB Announces Major Release of Its NoSQL Database and Support for Concurrent OLTP and OLAP

    Scylla Open Source 3.0 Brings Production-Ready Materialized Views, Secondary Indexes, Cassandra 3.0 Compatibility and More
     
    PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 6, 2018 — ScyllaDB, the real-time big data database company, kicked off its two-day Scylla Summit by announcing a major release of its database, Scylla Open Source 3.0. The company also previewed Scylla support for concurrent OLTP and OLAP, an industry first that enables simultaneous transactional and analytical processing. This release marks a significant milestone, as the company surpasses feature parity with Apache Cassandra, the popular open source NoSQL database. As a drop-in replacement for Apache Cassandra with as much as 10 times better performance, Scylla Open Source has added production-ready capabilities much anticipated by the NoSQL community, while introducing ground-breaking new features that improve utilization and minimize operational overhead. 
     
    Scylla Open Source 3.0 features a close-to-the-hardware design that makes optimal use of modern servers. Written from the ground-up in C++ to provide significant improvements to throughput, latency and administration, Scylla delivers scale-up performance of more than 1,000,000 IOPS per node, scales out to hundreds of nodes, and consistently achieves a 99% tail latency of less than 1 millisecond.
     
    New Scylla Capabilities Announced Today
    • Concurrent OLTP and OLAP: Scylla will enable its users to safely balance real-time operational workloads with big-data analytical workloads within a single database cluster. Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) have very different data access characteristics. OLTP involves many small and varied transactions, including mixed writes, updates, and reads, with a high sensitivity to latency. In contrast, OLAP emphasizes the throughput of broad scans across datasets. By introducing capabilities that isolate workloads, Scylla will uniquely support simultaneous OLTP and OLAP workloads without sacrificing latency or throughput.
    • Materialized Views: Production-ready release of a long-awaited experimental feature designed to enable automated server-side table denormalization. Notably, the Apache Cassandra community reverted this feature from production-ready to experimental mode in 2017.  
    • Secondary Indexes: Production-ready with its 3.0 release, Scylla’s global secondary indexes can scale to any cluster size, unlike the counter local-indexing approach adopted by Apache Cassandra. Secondary indexes allow querying data through non-primary key columns. 
    • Cassandra 3.x File Format Compatibility: Scylla Open Source 3.0 includes Apache Cassandra 3.x compatible storage format (SSTable), improving performance and reducing storage volume by as much as 3x.
    Speaking at Scylla Summit 2018, CEO and co-founder of ScyllaDB, Dor Laor said, 
    “Scylla 3 represents a huge leap forward in functionality and scalability. We finally reached parity with Apache Cassandra, and developed a ground-breaking OLTP+OLAP service level agreement guarantee that puts us on a path towards pure multi-tenancy and positions us favorably against Amazon DynamoDB, Microsoft’s Cosmos DB among others.”
    AVAILABILITY
    Scylla Open Source 3.0 will be available in November 2018, with concurrent OLTP and OLAP support available shortly after. Existing users are encouraged to upgrade to the new version in order to take full advantage of performance gains and new capabilities. 
     
    To see the advantages of Scylla:
     
    ABOUT SCYLLADB 
    ScyllaDB is the real-time big data database company. Fully compatible with Apache Cassandra, Scylla embraces a shared-nothing approach that increases throughput and storage capacity to 10X that of Cassandra. AppNexus, Samsung, Ola Cabs, CERN, Grab, Investing.com, Snapfish, IBM’s Compose and many more leading companies have adopted Scylla to realize order-of-magnitude performance improvements and reduce hardware costs. ScyllaDB was founded by the team responsible for the KVM hypervisor and is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Innovation Endeavors, Wing Venture Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, Magma Venture Partners, Western Digital Capital, Samsung Ventures, and TLV Partners. 
     
    For more information, please visit: scylladb.com

  • DH2i Launches DxOdyssey for Zero Trust Hybrid/Multi-Cloud Security

    DH2i’s DxOdyssey Set to Disrupt the Multi-Billion Dollar Cloud VPN Market

    DH2i to Demonstrate New DxOdyssey Software at PASS Summit 2018

    FORT COLLINS, Co. – November 6, 2018 – DH2i®, the leading provider of multi-platform Software Defined Perimeter and Smart Availability™ software for Windows and Linux, today announced the launch of DxOdyssey™, its new network security software that dynamically deploys perimeter security where needed in order to isolate services for fine-grained user access, creating a Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP). The new DH2i SDP offering gives medium and large organizations the perimeter security model needed for Zero Trust network connectivity between on-premises sites and/or multi-cloud environments. In addition, the new offering addresses customer desire for a highly scalable, self-healing networking solution that is easy to configure and manage, with a high ROI. DxOdyssey makes the application infrastructure “always-secure and always-on”.

    Today’s medium and large organization security and network admins are well-aware of the difficulties that surround using traditional approaches such as virtual private networks (VPNs) for perimeter security to connect on-premises sites and/or multi-cloud environments. The issues include:

    –        Complex configuration requiring dedicated routers, ACLs and FW policies increasing risk

    –        Users get a “slice of the network,” creating a lateral network attack surface

    –        Inbound connections create attack surfaces (e.g. DDoS)

    –        No ability to reduce attack surfaces with application-level segmentation

    DxOdyssey cross-platform SDP software overcomes these issues without the use and security risks of conventional networking connectivity approaches. DxOdyssey SDP software delivers:

    –        Micro-Perimeters – Application-level micro-tunnels give network admins the ability to deep segment by application, not by network. Limits remote users to fine-grained access to specific services. No ACLs or FW policies to manage. Eliminates lateral network attacks.

    –        Discreet Invisibility – Randomly generated non-standard UDP ports for dynamic on-demand micro-tunnel communications.Servers are cloaked and secured with no open ports. Virtually eliminates network attack surfaces.

    –        Multi-Cloud Secure – Designed to enable secure communications “from any host, to any host, anywhere” with application-level DTLS encrypted micro tunnels and Public Key Authentication. Scales across environments to build a secure hybrid/multi-cloud distributed application infrastructure. No cloud vendor lock-in.

    –        Smart Availability – Dynamic movement of micro-tunnel gateways and application workloads with self-healing automatic fault detection and failover. The perimeter can be orchestrated to change dynamically so that micro-tunnels and workloads always find their best execution venue (BEV). The entire application infrastructure is “always-secure and always-on.”

    –        Lightweight software – Software-Defined-Perimeter solution. Just install on any host and connect.Integrates into existing network infrastructure. No network reconfiguration. No appliances to deploy, configure or maintain.

    “A ‘zero-trust’ methodology assumes that assets, users and resources are untrusted.  To achieve a zero-trust architecture takes an extremely focused and dedicated effort, but can strengthen most organizations’ risk posture,” said Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst, 451 Research. “IT professionals seeking to secure today’s more complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments and build highly available, application-aware capabilities should consider offerings such as DH2i’s DxOdyssey to move beyond the complexity and limitations of traditional VPNs.”

    “Traditional perimeter security solutions are obsolete for the new IT reality of hybrid and multi-cloud. They weren’t designed for them. They create too large of an attack surface. One need only open today’s paper to confirm this fact. Customers need a new perimeter security model to support hybrid and multicloud computing,” said Don Boxley, CEO and Co-Founder, DH2i.”DH2i’s SDP solution, DxOdyssey, is purpose-built for this new perimeter security reality and is going to disrupt the multi-billion cloud VPN market* because it enables organizations to move away from using a traditional VPN and all of the associated issues for perimeter security. Instead, with DxOdyssey customers can build lightweight dynamic security perimeters to secure application- and workload-centric connections between on-premises and/or multi-cloud environments, with virtually no attack surface.”

    According to 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Hosting and Managed Services, Budgets and Outlook, 2017 survey of 644 enterprise IT decision-makers, 58% of organizations are pursuing a hybrid strategy involving integrated on-premises systems and off-premises cloud/hosted resources.**

    DH2i will offer live demonstrations of its new DxOdyssey networking security software, as well as its DxEnterprise multi-platform Smart Availability software for Windows Server and Linux Server databases and stateful Docker containers, at this week’s PASS Summit, Booth # 401 (November 6-9, Seattle, WA).

    Tweet this: .@DH2i Launches DxOdyssey for Zero Trust Hybrid/Multi-Cloud Security — See it live at #PASSSummit 2018 http://dh2i.com/press/ #ZeroTrust #SDN #SoftwareDefined #Cloud #VPN

    *Overall, the global VPN market is valued at $45 billion U.S. dollars in 2014 and forecast for $70 billion U.S. dollars in 2019 (Statista 2018).

    About DH2i

    DH2i Company is the leading provider of multi-platform Software Defined Perimeter and Smart Availability™ software for Windows and Linux. DH2i software products DxOdyssey™ and DxEnterprise® enable customers to create an entire IT infrastructure that is “always-secure and always-on.” To learn more, please visit: www.dh2i.com, call: 800-380-5405 or +44 20 3318 9204, or email: info@dh2i.com.

  • New hires, Project Wins and Education Programme Boost Edge Testing DevOps Practice

    DevOps service supports organisations as they combine software development and operations for quicker delivery to market

     One of the UK’s fastest growing and largest independent software testing companies, Edge Testing Solutions, part of Eurofins Digital Testing, has boosted its DevOps practice with new hires, project wins and education programme.

    Edge Testing’s DevOps service provides organisations with the skills to combine software developments and operations company-wide. Through close consultation, Edge Testing’s DevOps team has already assisted teams, including an award-winning Oracle specialist, to work collaboratively and understand any challenges that a DevOps approach might bring, while also educating them on the best tools to use.

    As part of the drive to support organisations looking to move to DevOps, Gal-on Broner has been appointed Principal Technical Consultant and will lead Edge Testing’s DevOps service. Previously CTO at Tesnet (UK) for over 14 years, Gal-on brings requirements analysis, test automation, agile methodology, scrum, and manual, regression and user acceptance testing expertise to his new role. He will report to Dan Martland, the head of Edge Testing’s technical practice.

    Sharon Hamilton, Managing Director, Edge Testing, commented: “With the rapid acceleration of DevOps’ uptake within the business community, we wanted to offer our clients access to a greater pool of senior consultants. We hired Gal-on to lead our growing DevOps practice as he has the knowledge necessary to provide a balance of technical test capability and application of best fit tools.”

    Gal-on’s appointment follows a series of key senior technical team hires over the last year as part of Edge Testing’s plans to continue expansion across the UK. The software testing company also recently announced four major client wins for a variety of software testing services for leading organisations valued at over £17.5 million.

    Sharon concluded: “Our DevOps service offering aims to transform business processes, to create both value and cost savings through faster delivery times that improve ROI and reduce support costs at the same time as increasing the quality and reliability of the business’ services.”

    As part of its education programme, Edge Testing hosted a series of ‘Testing as part of DevOps’ events at Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester in 2018, and has more planned for 2019.

    Edge Testing provides services both onsite and remotely from Edge Testing’s Glasgow and Birmingham Digital Test Hubs. Edge Testing launched its first Digital Test Hub in Scotland in 2013, with the second opening last year in the Midlands. The company’s road map now also includes a new Digital Test Hub based in the North of England to offer clients UK-wide an easily accessible remote testing service for their in-house applications and back office systems.

    For more information, visit: http://www.edgetesting.co.uk/

    tely from Edge Testing’s Glasgow and Birmingham Digital Test Hubs. Edge Testing launched its first Digital Test Hub in Scotland in 2013, with the second opening last year in the Midlands. The company’s road map now also includes a new Digital Test Hub based in the North of England to offer clients UK-wide an easily accessible remote testing service for their in-house applications and back office systems.

    For more information, visit: http://www.edgetesting.co.uk/

  • PagerDuty Welcomes Zendesk Chief Financial Officer Elena Gomez to Its Board of Directors

    SAN FRANCISCO – November 1, 2018 – PagerDuty, a global leader in digital operations management, today announced the appointment of Zendesk (NYSE: ZEN) Chief Financial Officer Elena Gomez to its board of directors. As a senior finance executive with over 20 years of leadership experience at multi-billion-dollar companies, Gomez brings expertise in driving global growth and scaling finance operations, as well as deep knowledge of enterprise SaaS businesses to PagerDuty’s board.

    Gomez will also serve as the audit committee chair for PagerDuty’s board of directors. She is the second independent director to be elected to PagerDuty’s board, following the recent appointment of Zach Nelson, the former CEO of NetSuite.

    “We are thrilled to welcome Elena, an experienced, world-class leader and financial expert to our board of directors. Elena brings experience in scaling and building finance teams and capabilities in high-growth companies like Salesforce and Zendesk, as well as board committee leadership at Smartsheet — all companies we respect tremendously,” said PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada. “Elena joins a board committed to building an inclusive, diverse and enduring business in service to our users and customers’ digital transformation success.”

    At Zendesk, Gomez leads the finance and strategy organization supporting the company’s growth as it broadens its enterprise reach and expands its product portfolio. Prior to Zendesk, she served in senior finance roles at Fortune 500 companies, including several publicly traded industry leaders such as Salesforce, Visa and Charles Schwab.

    “I’ve long admired PagerDuty and the phenomenal growth the company has achieved under Jennifer’s visionary leadership. She and the board have cultivated an exceptional corporate culture that is reflected both in their innovative platform and the values they demonstrate to the industry,” said Gomez. “Together, we will help PagerDuty accelerate its growth on a global scale and continue to transform real-time operations at organizations throughout the world.”

    Gomez’s appointment follows a series of financial, product and growth milestones for PagerDuty. The company recently closed its Series D fundinground, elevating its valuation to over $1 billion; expanded its product to a modular, multi-product platform that recently launched two new products,PagerDuty Visibility and PagerDuty Analytics; surpassed over 300 integrations in its partner ecosystem; and expanded to 10,500 customers, with strong traction in the enterprise market.

    About PagerDuty

    PagerDuty is a leading digital operations management platform for organizations. Over 10,500 customers—including enterprises such as IBM, GE, Gap, Vodafone, American Eagle Outfitters, Pitney Bowes, Box, and ING—and small to midsize organizations around the world trust PagerDuty to improve digital operations, drive revenue, mitigate threats, protect assets, and delight customers. To learn more and try PagerDuty for free, visitwww.pagerduty.com. Follow our blog and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook.

  • Comodo CA Rebrands as Sectigo

    New Brand Reinforces World’s Largest Certificate Authority’s

    Continued Innovation in IoT and Web Security; Recaps One-Year Growth Milestones

     ROSELAND, N.J. – November 1, 2018 – Comodo CA, the world’s largest commercial Certificate Authority and a leader in web security solutions, announced today that the company is rebranding to Sectigo. Timed with the one-year anniversary of its acquisition, the company released its new name and upgraded web experience, recapped innovations and leadership additions, and underscored its commitment to delivering an expanded suite of solutions and improving customer experience.

    Sectigo (formerly Comodo CA) provides web security solutions to small, medium, and enterprise businesses to protect their employees, customers, intellectual property, and brands from online threats.

    The company was acquired in October 2017 by private equity firm Francisco Partners in a carve-out from Comodo Group.

    “This is an incredibly exciting time for our company,” said Bill Holtz, CEO, Sectigo. “By rebranding as Sectigo, we are limiting market confusion, emphasizing our expansion beyond SSL to web security, and demonstrating renewed commitment to innovation, digital transformation, and service. ‘Sectigo’ has security and goin the word for a reason. Our global team is focused on delivering internet security products and services that rethink norms and advance the industry as a whole.”

    Security Innovations and Standards

    Sectigo has expanded the company’s solutions and services beyond its core TLS/SSL digital certificate business, and continued work with important standards bodies, including:

    • CodeGuard, Inc. – Acquired CodeGuard, a global leader in website maintenance, backup, and disaster recovery. CodeGuard, which maintains its brand, has since expanded to six locations in EMEA and APAC to meet international demand, and expects to see 100 percent YoY growth.
    • IoT Manager Platform – Sectigo launched its IoT device security platform to help protect devices and networks against cyberattacks. The platform serves a wide range of industries and applications including industrial automation, medical devices, automotive, telecommunications, smart city/smart buildings, and consumer electronics.
    • Certificate Manager 6.0 – Released advanced features and automation, providing enterprises with vendor migration flexibility, the ability to enroll any SSL from a single user interface, and one-click key replacement.
    • Standards Leadership – Established global industry memberships to advance industry standards from WiMAX Forum, GSMA, Zigbee, OCF, and Joint Venture – Silicon Valley.

    Geographic Expansion and Top Industry Talent

     Since its acquisition, Sectigo opened a new corporate headquarters in Roseland, NJ and a 3,000 square foot Development Center in Ottawa, Canada, to accommodate additional R&D and quality assurance capabilities and deliver services in fifteen different languages.

    The also company expanded headcount by 17% across offices globally, surpassing 230 employees, and added numerous veteran executives – representing 100+ years of industry expertise, collectively – from Verisign, Symantec, Entrust, Comodo Group, DigiCert, and GeoTrust.

    New Website and Online Resources

    As part of the rebrand, Sectigo has made significant technology investments in order to deliver new web properties where businesses of all sizes can conveniently purchase business security services, including a comprehensive range of SSL certificates. The company today launched its flagship site,Sectigo.com, providing a state-of-the-art experience, with intuitive navigation, streamlined checkout, a suite of payment options, wide-ranging products and services information, and an improved online support function for existing customers.

    Sectigo’s debuts with a helpful YouTube channel, offering a series of videos, including an introduction to the company, titled “Secure today. Seize Your Tomorrow.” The Sectigo Blog (LINK) also provides answers to FAQs about what’s changing, and not changing, with the company’s products and services.

    About Sectigo

    Sectigo (formerly Comodo CA) provides web security products that help customers protect, monitor, recover, and manage their web presence and connected devices. As the largest commercial Certificate Authority trusted by enterprises globally for more that 20 years, and more than 100 million SSL certificates issued in over 200 countries, Sectigo has the proven performance and experience to meet the growing needs of securing today’s digital landscape. For more information, visit www.sectigo.com.

  • Denim Group Awarded Hybrid Analysis Mapping Patents by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

    Issued Patents Will Drive Innovation in Managing Large Volumes of Data Generated by Application Security Testing Programs

    San Antonio, TX – October 30, 2018 – – Denim Group, the leading independent application security firm, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has awarded the company two patents which will provide a method of correlating and merging static application security testing (SAST) and dynamic application security testing (DAST) for web and mobile applications. The official name of the Hybrid Analysis Mapping (HAM) patents are as follows: Method of Correlating Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing Results for a Web Application (Patent #10,043,012) and Method of Correlating Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing Results for a Web and Mobile Application (Patent #10,043,004).

    The continued proliferation of websites, web applications, and mobile applications that handle sensitive data makes securing an organization’s application portfolio a major challenge. Effective application security programs utilize multiple types of analysis to test applications for security vulnerabilities, resulting in a high volume of data produced. This increased data can be valuable when it provides deeper insight into vulnerabilities; however, it can also make the problem of identifying areas of concern harder to manage by requiring further manual reviews by the analyst or highlighting large numbers of vulnerabilities and weaknesses that are of low value or priority. Without positive correlation of large data sets, the value of vulnerability data sets is diminished.

    Denim Group has implemented the technology from these two Hybrid Analysis Mapping patents into their vulnerability resolution management platform, ThreadFix, in order to help organizations efficiently manage the large volume of data that is generated by an organization’s application security testing program. This technology makes ThreadFix the first platform able to correlate SAST and DAST results without requiring a runtime agent. As a result, organizations report a 71% success rate in matching SAST and DAST results and an average reduction of 15-35% in overall findings. ThreadFix improves the ability of the application development team to identify vulnerabilities found by both testing tools and prioritize them in order of degree to be addressed.

    “We are honored to be awarded these two patents by the USPTO to help organizations more effectively manage their application security testing data,” said CTO of Denim Group, Dan Cornell. “By enabling organizations to more accurately correlate the results of static scans with dynamic scans and manage the data that is generated by their testing program more efficiently, we are delivering a significant breakthrough for today’s industry professionals in the application security space.”