Database Security Articles
Sometime during the pandemic, I stopped carrying a wallet when leaving the house. Almost all shops supported—often insisted on—touchless payments, so there was no need to carry around paper money, and since my phone was fully able to perform touchless payments, my phone became all I needed to navigate the commercial world. I'm sure most of you have had a similar experience.
Posted February 09, 2023
In 2023, companies will live and die by their data strategies. Massive increases in information generation, the cloud, and innovative technologies will be top of mind for database managers, all while an uncertain economy continually threatens budgets. For companies to build and maintain exciting applications that customers love while increasing the bottom line, they need to plan, adapt, and execute effective strategies for their data and databases.
Posted February 09, 2023
It's time to submit nominations for the annual Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Awards, a competition in which the winning information management solutions, products, and services are selected by you, the users.
Posted February 09, 2023
Cequence Security, the provider of unified API protection, is unveiling the latest testing capabilities—API Security Testing—for its unified API protection platform, with emphasis on vulnerabilities during the pre-production process.
Posted February 08, 2023
ThreatLocker, a provider of endpoint protection technologies, is launching ThreatLocker Ops, a community-driven threat detection tool that assists administrators to detect attempted breaches or weaknesses in their systems.
Posted February 06, 2023
FireCompass announced the company has secured $7 million in funding to revolutionize Red Teaming and Attack Surface Management. The round was led by Silicon Valley-based Cervin and Athera Venture Partners (previously Inventus Capital) along with existing investor BIF (Bharat Innovation Fund). The investment will be used to expand FireCompass' operations across U.S. and international markets and bring on new talent.
Posted February 06, 2023
DoControl, the automated SaaS security company, is announcing the general availability of its unified, no-code, risk-aware SaaS security platform on the AWS Marketplace.
Posted February 02, 2023
Sentra, a cloud data security company, has completed a $30 million Series A funding round, bringing the total capital raised to over $53 million.
Posted February 01, 2023
Oracle announced that Oracle Aconex for Defense has become the first construction and engineering project management and collaboration software to earn Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Impact Level 4 (IL4) provisional authorization. This recognition signifies that the software meets the security requirements for the processing and storage of controlled unclassified information, enabling the Department of Defense (DOD) agencies and their delivery partners to access, share, and collaborate on construction and engineering mission information at a heightened security level.
Posted February 01, 2023
Ensono, an expert technology advisor, innovation partner, and managed service provider, is releasing Ensono Envision Advisor, a multi-platform optimization solution combining data and guidance from certified expert engineers who offer unbiased actionable advice that enables optimization of a client's IT estate across cost, security, performance, availability, and reliability.
Posted January 26, 2023
Satori, a leading data security platform, is adding support for MongoDB, a scalable and flexible NoSQL document database used for high-volume data storage and processing. MongoDB users can now take advantage of Satori's data security platform to reduce risk, improve productivity, and ensure compliance.
Posted January 25, 2023
SAP and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are collaborating to accelerate digital transformation to support their customers, building on the success of their longstanding partnership. The collaboration brings together the technology, solutions, and flexibility that customers need to help them succeed in the digital economy, according to the vendors. The companies have had a strategic relationship for more than a decade with thousands of customers.
Posted January 25, 2023
Onapsis, a leader in business application cybersecurity and compliance, today announced a strategic collaboration with Wipro Limited, a technology services and consulting company, to drive digital transformation and business growth for customers. Enterprises embarking on their digital transformation journey are often faced with a complex SAP landscape and a limited understanding of how to secure these applications.
Posted January 25, 2023
Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd., is partnering with Model9, a leader in cloud data management for mainframe, to offer greater access, visibility, and value from critical data for enterprises with mainframes as their core business platform. This partnership is key for enterprises that utilize hybrid cloud environments, according to the vendors.
Posted January 23, 2023
The IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV), IBM's thought leadership think tank, published its Security in the Quantum Era report, detailing the steps needed to secure data in the Quantum Era. This in-depth analysis of the quantum security landscape unveils the need for "quantum-safe" strategies today to maintain the integrity and security of highly sensitive data in the future.
Posted January 23, 2023
Immuta, provider of sensitive data discovery, security and access control, and data activity monitoring, is unveiling its latest continuous data security product, Immuta Detect.
Posted January 19, 2023
Introduced in a DBTA webinar, "Exploring Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Clusters," Vin Yu, senior technical product manager at AWS, highlighted DocumentDB's new elastic clusters feature which allows users to quickly scale and support massive read and writes workloads, all while mitigating cost and alleviating menial administrative labor.
Posted January 19, 2023
Dremio, provider of an open data lakehouse platform, announced it is HIPAA compliant, reflecting the company's commitment to data security. Dremio also announced that it has renewed its SOC 2 Type II report, which now includes both Dremio Cloud and Dremio Software. Dremio meets the Information Security control requirements for a multitude of other compliance frameworks and certifications including ISO 270001 and GDPR.
Posted January 19, 2023
Introduced in a DBTA webinar, "Exploring Amazon DocumentDB Elastic Clusters," Vin Yu, senior technical product manager at AWS, highlighted DocumentDB's new elastic clusters feature which allows users to quickly scale and support massive read and writes workloads, all while mitigating cost and alleviating menial administrative labor.
Posted January 19, 2023
Shane Murray, field CTO at Monte Carlo, and Samia Rahman, director of enterprise data strategy and governance at Seagen, gathered for a DBTA webinar, "2023 Predictions: Challenges and Opportunities for Data Engineering Teams," to discuss their predictions for the most critical challenges and opportunities facing data engineering teams in the coming year.
Posted January 19, 2023
Kintent, the programmatic, predictive Trust Assurance platform, is releasing its new TrustShare application, allowing software companies to pass security reviews quickly with AI-powered security questionnaire responses while also offering a dynamic trust portal to share security and privacy compliance status with prospects and partners.
Posted January 19, 2023
Styra, Inc., the creator and maintainer of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and leader of cloud-native authorization, is adding the industry's broadest policy library and toolset for infrastructure to its Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS). To address security concerns associated with the use of containers, Styra now provides NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-190 compliant policies within its expanded library that includes hundreds of validated policies.
Posted January 18, 2023
NS1, a provider of authoritative DNS solutions, is releasing DNS Insights, a DNS observability solution that unlocks improved reliability, real-time analysis, and cost control by collecting DNS and network metrics at the edge to empower networking professionals as they troubleshoot and optimize infrastructure at scale.
Posted January 18, 2023
TDengine, the provider of an open source data platform purpose-built for time-series data, is unveiling a brand new data-sharing feature for TDengine Cloud.
Posted January 17, 2023
Cisco and Intel are releasing the 7th generation of UCS C-Series and X-Series servers that will be powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors, providing customers with greater flexibility and more performance for modern workloads with new C-Series and X-Series servers.
Posted January 17, 2023
Alation Inc., a provider of enterprise data intelligence solutions, is launching the Partner Program for Open Connector Framework to deliver connectivity to new data sources, aiming to build an ecosystem of partners to expand connectivity options using the Alation Open Connector Framework, an SDK to simplify the development of Alation connectors.
Posted January 16, 2023
Uncertain economic conditions, skills shortages, rising automation, increasing regulation, and digital disruption—all add up to a stew of both challenges and opportunities for data managers in the year ahead. Emerging technologies—and new attitudes—are reshaping the look and scope of the information management landscape, with implications for overall business strategies and individual careers alike.
Posted January 12, 2023
Moving to the cloud may seem, on its surface, a good way to better manage the quality and viability of data resources for enterprises. However, as data accelerates its move to the cloud, the complexity involved in assuring quality and viability has only increased.
Posted January 12, 2023
Delivering technology alone will not be enough in 2023 as we move into a post-COVID landscape. Many companies are dealing with a hybrid workforce while also moving to become more sustainable and accustomed to new ways of integrating emerging technologies such as AI. To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of Trend-Setting Products. Several MV leaders including Kore Technologies, Revelation Software, and Rocket Software continue to meet the new challenges of each year and again top this list.
Posted January 12, 2023
Data integration technologies, capabilities, and methodologies are evolving. It can be difficult to figure out what solutions or approaches may be best for the business and its digital transformation. Informatica recently held a special webinar titled "Data Integration Trends for 2023," with Makesh Renganathan, director product management, Informatica, and John O'Brien, principal advisor and CEO, Radiant Advisors, to discuss data integration trends to improve data management.
Posted January 11, 2023
comforte AG announced the launch of its Data Security Platform integration in partnership with Snowflake, the Data Cloud Company, to help customers securely move sensitive data to Snowflake's single, integrated platform.
Posted January 10, 2023
NetSPI, a leader in enterprise penetration testing and attack surface management, is acquiring nVisium to further scale its offensive security solutions and address heightened demand for human-delivered penetration testing. nVisium will support NetSPI's continued efforts to deliver strategic security testing solutions to enterprises.
Posted January 10, 2023
Awake AI, an optimization platform for port bound cargo flow and port ecosystem building, is announcing their recent AWS Foundational Technical Review Certification, affirming its quality software.
Posted January 09, 2023
Data centers are only gaining more prominence in importance as our lives continue becoming more and more digital. Last year saw many enterprises dealing with how to climate proof IT operations from disaster. This year looks to be the same. Here, experts in the IT space offer their predictions for the data center in 2023.
Posted January 09, 2023
In the ever-shifting markets professionals work in today, companies must have the ability to remain agile and flexible throughout their business operations. To combat the uncertainties of the marketplace and customer demands for fast service, businesses have turned to open-source technology over the past decade. Open-source technologies provide IT and development teams with the agility to implement innovative tools and practices—such as DevOps and Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
Posted January 09, 2023
LogRhythm, the company empowering security teams to navigate the ever-changing threat landscape, is introducing a series of expanded capabilities and integrations for its security operations solutions. Following the October launch of LogRhythm Axon, a groundbreaking, cloud-native security operations platform, the company is introducing new visualizations and powerful analytics that offer seamless visibility into potential security risks.
Posted January 06, 2023
A special registration period for Data Summit 2023 is now open. Take advantage of the best deal of the year with Super Early Bird savings off your pass. While we finalize the program, you can save big with $300 off the regular rate of our most popular passes. Preferential pricing is offered to attendees who register before January 20. Additionally, worry free registration is available through February 10.
Posted January 06, 2023
Progress, trusted provider of application development and infrastructure software, announced it is entering a definitive agreement to acquire MarkLogic, a provider of managing complex data and metadata and a Vector Capital portfolio company. Upon closing of the planned transaction, MarkLogic is expected to enhance Progress' commitment of delivering the best products to develop, deploy, and manage high-impact applications by providing a unified enterprise-grade semantic data platform that empowers customers to derive value from complex data.
Posted January 04, 2023
According to a new research report published by Information Services Group (ISG), a leading global technology research and advisory firm, many U.S. enterprises are migrating to Oracle cloud infrastructure and applications. The 2022 ISG Provider Lens Oracle Ecosystem report for the U.S. finds that enterprises are investing in Oracle Cloud Applications (OCA) for its ability to scale and its integrated application and infrastructure stack.
Posted January 04, 2023
Oracle is opening an Oracle Cloud Region in Chicago, Illinois, continuing one of the fastest expansions of any major cloud provider. Oracle's 41st global region and fourth in the U.S. offers customers and partners a new option to locate their infrastructure, applications, and data for optimal performance and latency.
Posted January 04, 2023
CTERA, provider of edge-to-cloud file services, is releasing version 7.5 of the CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform which includes CTERA's patented Cloud Storage Routing technology as well as numerous enhancements in data management, deduplication, and security.
Posted January 03, 2023
MarkLogic Corporation, the provider of the unified data platform for complex data and metadata management, is unveiling the latest features in its MarkLogic 11 update. Focusing on analytics, simplified development, management, and auditing, the update offers improvements to organizational management of data, including in the cloud.
Posted December 21, 2022
Joining together for DBTA's webinar, "Unlock Your Data's Full Potential: Healthcare & Life Sciences Edition," experts from Immuta, Snowflake, and Radiant explored modern data security strategies in healthcare and life sciences industries that can maintain rigorous compliance while mitigating risk and driving productivity.
Posted December 21, 2022
LogRhythm, the company empowering security teams, is partnering with SentinelOne, an autonomous cybersecurity platform company, to offer an integrated enterprise security solution to prevent, detect, and respond to threats in your environment. The combined solution streamlines security operations and improves response workflow, helping overwhelmed security teams cut through the noise and gain precise insights into cybersecurity threats, according to the vendors.
Posted December 21, 2022
From cloud to AI and onto new technologies and methodologies such as DataOps, another year means more solutions to choose from. Here, executives of leading companies provide predictions for what's ahead in 2023 for big data. Plans for 5G deployments, new AI technologies like the metaverse or digital twins, and the rise of data fabric and data mesh are just some of the latest trends experts see coming to fruition in 2023.
Posted December 20, 2022
SingleStore, the cloud-native database built for speed and scale to power real-time applications, is releasing version 8.0 of its platform, featuring even faster analytics, improved developer experience, and greater ease of use.
Posted December 19, 2022
Redgate Software, a database DevOps solutions provider, announced it will releases a series of upcoming enhancements to its portfolio which will help organizations and businesses standardize and streamline cross-database development. According to the company, it was prompted by the growing use of different database types within IT departments and the increase in Open Source adoption. The move will reduce the difficulties faced when managing the development and deployment of changes across multiple database platforms at the same time.
Posted December 19, 2022
Ellen Mary Challans, better known by her pen name Mary Renault, was attributed with saying, "There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare." The early years of the second decade of the 21st millennium have been scarred by the consequences of willful negligence cascading throughout the world due to the inconvenience of nonchalantly ignoring unexpected inevitabilities.
Posted December 15, 2022