Database Security Articles
Snyk, a leader in developer security, announced the integration of Snyk Analytics for Snowflake, enabling organizations to equip their developer, application security (AppSec), and security operations (SecOps) teams with the ability to bring custom context from their own security posture together with unique developer security analytics from Snyk.
Posted August 13, 2024
Rubrik, Inc., the Zero Trust Data Security Company, is unveiling a new partnership with Mandiant, a cyber defense provider which is now part of Google Cloud. This collaboration—which is shaped by three key pillars—serves to help enterprises quickly control their risk against diverse, rampant threats.
Posted August 13, 2024
Cribl, the data engine for IT and security, announced four key partnerships with Vijilan, Anvilogic, Securonix, and Anomali, to address growing enterprise IT and security data management challenges. Cribl Stream and Edge products are now integrated with Anvilogic's innovative security information and event management (SIEM) platform, providing security operations centers (SOC) with best-in-class flexibility, cost efficiency, and control over their security data, according to the vendors.
Posted August 12, 2024
Analysis by global real estate consulting firm JLL predicts edge IT infrastructure and data centers will become a $317 billion market globally by 2026, representing a 107% growth from the 2020 market valued at $153 billion. Globally, the growth of edge computing will be influenced by not only the emergence of several technology-based megatrends but also the need for faster data transfer and high computation, as well as factors such as policies and regulations.
Posted August 12, 2024
IBM is adding generative AI capabilities to its managed Threat Detection and Response Services utilized by IBM Consulting analysts to advance and streamline security operations for clients. Built on IBM's watsonx data and AI platform, the new IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Assistant is designed to accelerate and improve the identification, investigation, and response to critical security threats, according to the company.
Posted August 12, 2024
Regular readers of this column are aware that I am a proponent of getting rid of bad database standards. But sometimes it can be difficult to determine if a particular standard is bad, or just a lot of trouble to comply with! Well, what am I getting at here? Have you ever been thwarted by a global fiat from management? Of course you have, we all have. But I'm talking about a particular type of dictum from above. Something like this: "New software installations, including updated versions and releases, must be supported by current tooling before they can be installed."
Posted August 12, 2024
Advanced Info Service (AIS), one of Thailand's largest mobile network operators, announced plans to deploy Oracle Alloy and launch AIS Cloud, the country's first locally owned and operated hyperscale cloud. Oracle Alloy will provide AIS' customers and all enterprises in Thailand, including the public sector, access to more than 100 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services, including the latest artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
Posted August 12, 2024
Redpanda, the unified streaming data platform, is integrating its Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) service with Microsoft Azure to expand its multi-cloud offerings for delivering mission-critical data. This limited availability release responds to growing user demand for flexible data infrastructure options, according to Redpanda.
Posted August 09, 2024
Supply Wisdom, the market's full-stack, real-time risk intelligence SaaS platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI), is partnering with Fusion Risk Management (Fusion), a leading provider of cloud-based operational resilience, business continuity, and risk management solutions—offering Fusion customers a seamless integration for enhanced third-party risk management (TPRM) and operational risk and resilience program needs.
Posted August 09, 2024
Varonis Systems, Inc., a leader in data security, is announcing new integrations with SentinelOne and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, enriching visibility for customer endpoints. These integrations with leading EDR providers forwards Varonis' mission to protect data wherever it lives, according to the company.
Posted August 09, 2024
Vectra AI, Inc., the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), is unveiling a recent expansion to its Vectra AI Platform, the integrated signal solution for XDR. This update focuses on affording security operations center (SOC) teams with the necessary tools to proactively address threats and deter behaviors within increasingly dynamic hybrid environments.
Posted August 09, 2024
CalypsoAI, the leader in AI security, is announcing a suite of new capabilities that empower enterprises to tailor their generative AI (GenAI) security to their unique needs. Furthering its mission to secure GenAI across the enterprise, CalypsoAI's latest updates transcend legacy security techniques that lack the nuance to effectively combat the continuously evolving AI threat landscape.
Posted August 08, 2024
AppViewX, the leader in automated certificate lifecycle management (CLM) and PKI solutions, is announcing a partnership with Utimaco, a leading global provider of IT security solutions, with the goal of delivering holistic, scalable platform solutions for secure certificate and key lifecycle management.
Posted August 08, 2024
Cloudera, a hybrid platform for data, analytics and AI, is introducing two key enhancements to its metadata management solutions, boosting open interoperability within the open data lakehouse and addressing increasing demands for security and governance across the entire data lifecycle.
Posted August 08, 2024
To help organizations progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards, which provide the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers. MultiValue software vendors continue to address emerging challenges and opportunities that are affecting the IT landscape by frequently adding new features and integrations with other platforms and services, helping their loyal and committed customers to stay up-to-date with the latest technology trends.
Posted August 08, 2024
In many organizations, microservices have become the default method of application building and deployment, leveraging containers and Kubernetes. The resulting architecture has been a flexible network of services that provide resiliency by operating independently, unaffected by potential failures in other parts of the system. Recently, however, some technology leaders have been questioning if this is the best way to build.
Posted August 08, 2024
There is a confluence of activity—including generative AI models, digital twins, and shared ledger capabilities—that are having a profound impact on helping enterprises meet their goal of becoming data driven. Capturing data, converting it into the right insights, and integrating those insights quickly and efficiently into business decisions and processes is generating a significant competitive advantage for those who do it right.
Posted August 08, 2024
With today's data-driven practices and AI demands, there has never been more pressure on data managers and professionals to deliver real-time, high-quality information when and where it is needed. Many organizations are struggling to achieve such a level of "data management maturity," in which data is provided on an agile, automated basis.
Posted August 08, 2024
Despite the overwhelming promise of AI, its rapid proliferation has been accompanied by some unwanted side effects, including a dramatic uptick in cyberattacks— particularly social engineering attacks like phishing, which have grown 1,265% since late 2022. As a result, organizations across industries are faced with an ever-evolving challenge: balancing the positive use cases associated with AI, such as automated monitoring and streamlined workflows, with its very real risks.
Posted August 08, 2024
In Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, various alien races were able to communicate with each other thanks to the Babel Fish, which, when placed in one's ear, decoded brainwave emanations from one species to provide instantaneous translation to the other. In Star Trek, a "universal translator" allowed instantaneous translation between any alien species and humans. Until recently, these universal translators have existed only in the domain of science fiction.
Posted August 08, 2024
Picture this: there's a new face in the IT department, ready to step in to help tackle the increasingly complex challenges caused by modern hybrid on-prem and multi-cloud environments. Overstretched technology teams always appreciate an extra set of helping hands, but what happens when this new team member isn't human—but artificial intelligence (AI)?
Posted August 08, 2024
Commvault, a leading provider of cyber resilience and data protection solutions for the hybrid cloud, is continuing to advance its cyber resilience offerings with a recent expansion of its cyber and data security ecosystem. Manifesting as strategic, bi-directional integrations with Acante, Dasera, Splunk, and Wiz, Commvault works to equip its users with the robust security necessary for today's threat landscape.
Posted August 07, 2024
Apiiro, the leading application security posture management (ASPM) platform, is unveiling a new, AI-driven capability that detects risks during the design phase of the application development lifecycle. By enabling application security (AppSec) professionals to detect and mitigate risks before a line of code is written, Apiiro forwards proactive security management that saves time, costs, and resources while accelerating software delivery.
Posted August 07, 2024
Scamnetic, a company dedicated to protecting individuals and businesses from digital threats using advanced AI, is debuting its AI-based scam-detection solution—helping consumers detect every type of scam including deepfake video and audio across any channel in real time, removing human error from the process.
Posted August 07, 2024
Ampere and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) are releasing second-generation Ampere-based compute instances, OCI Ampere A2 Compute, based on the AmpereOne family of processors. The new offering builds upon the success of OCI Ampere A1 Compute instances, which have been adopted by OCI customers and deployed across over 100 OCI services, including Oracle Database services like HeatWave, MySQL, as well as Oracle Cloud Applications.
Posted August 07, 2024
Oracle and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to meet the increased demands for generative AI, large language models (LLMs), advanced graphics, and digital twins to hasten operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and drive innovation. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) announced the release of NVIDIA L40S GPU bare-metal instances, available to order and the upcoming availability of a new virtual machine accelerated by a single NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU.
Posted August 07, 2024
Code42 Software, Inc. (now part of Mimecast), the leader in data loss and insider threat protection, is unveiling a series of enhancements to Incydr, the SaaS data protection solution. With these enhancements, designed specifically to protect against data exfiltration to generative AI (GenAI) tools, enterprises can embark on GenAI initiatives with confidence, according to the company.
Posted August 06, 2024
AvePoint, a global leader in data management and data governance, is releasing AvePoint Cloud Backup Express, designed to use Microsoft 365 Backup Storage for rapid and more efficient data protection.
Posted August 06, 2024
Polyhedra Network (Polyhedra), the team pioneering the next generation of secure and scalable zero-knowledge (ZK) proof infrastructure, announced that Proof Cloud has launched in an open beta to meet the growing demand for efficient, fast, and cost-effective ZK-proof technology. Proof Cloud was created in collaboration with Google Cloud and will be utilized by Polygon, Linea, and Lita at launch.
Posted August 06, 2024
Lumifi Cyber, Inc. (Lumifi), a next-generation leader in the cybersecurity space, is debuting its Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Now available on the trusted Azure cloud platform, Lumifi's MDR capabilities enhance cybersecurity posture.
Posted August 05, 2024
Logz.io, provider of Open 360, is releasing Explore, a faster, more intuitive and responsive user interface (UI) for the Logz.io Open 360 observability platform—improving the ability of users to access, query, and visualize their logs. Explore is now the default log management interface for Logz.io, replacing the previous version based on OpenSearch Dashboards (OSD).
Posted August 05, 2024
Abstract Security, building the future of AI enabled security operations, is unveiling Abstract Intelligence Gallery (AIG), a solution that "puts threat intelligence to work" and unlocks new use cases for enhancing security posture. Built atop Abstract Security's streaming analytics platform, AIG serves to boost detection and analytics workflows without requiring specialized, complex platforms.
Posted August 05, 2024
Data experts joined DBTA's webinar, The Role of Data in Driving Growth, to examine how the speakers' respective companies have driven enterprise growth through the successful taming of their data estates.
Posted August 02, 2024
Index Engines, a cybersecurity company, is providing new comprehensive data integrity reporting within the CyberSense product—empowering data protection and security teams to quickly understand and explain the health status of protected data to support their cyber resiliency strategies.
Posted August 02, 2024
AttackIQ, the leading independent vendor of breach and attack simulation (BAS) solutions and a founding research partner of the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defense (CTID), is debuting Flex 2.0, the latest iteration of its agentless BAS solution. As security threats continue to evolve, Flex 2.0 empowers enterprises to quickly and effectively assess their security postures as needed.
Posted August 01, 2024
Perforce Software, the DevOps company for global teams, is releasing a new version of its static analysis tools, providing enhanced security and maximum CI/CD process flexibility for safety-critical development projects. Perforce static analysis engines ensure software quality, safety and security, and offer continuous compliance throughout the development process by alerting developers to defects, vulnerabilities, and standards rule violations as the code is being written, according to the company.
Posted August 01, 2024
Protect AI, a leader in AI security, is announcing the acquisition of SydeLabs, the company that specializes in automated red teaming—or attack simulations—for generative AI (GenAI) systems. This acquisition will serve to propel Protect AI's mission toward helping organizations test and improve large language model (LLM) security.
Posted July 31, 2024
Fireproof, developer of open-source database technology, announced it has closed its pre-seed funding round, enabling the company to further support the launch of Fireproof Cloud—a platform designed to make database management easy for everyone, while offering industry leading data integrity and portability.
Posted July 31, 2024
Devo Technology, the security data analytics company, is unveiling a series of data orchestration, data analytics, and security operations center (SOC) workflow enhancements designed to bring data control, cost efficiency, and automation to security teams. With data volumes increasing while team budgets remain the same, Devo's latest offerings aim to ease the pressures of security while delivering robust data control.
Posted July 30, 2024
Fortanix Inc., a leader in data-first cybersecurity and pioneer of Confidential Computing, is debuting an expansion of Key Insight, the solution for proactively discovering, assessing, and remediating cryptographic security risks. Now, Key Insight users can scan on-premises services—such as databases or storage—for encryption keys, making it the first solution to deliver this capability across hybrid and on-prem environments, according to Fortanix.
Posted July 30, 2024
KNIME, one of the leading open-source data science and AI companies, is unveiling new generative AI (GenAI) capabilities that will empower organizations to securely scale its use and broaden the availability of models. Equipping enterprises with a set of internal controls, KNIME's release enables the secure use of GenAI according to an enterprise's unique risk assessment and internal policies.
Posted July 29, 2024
Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., is releasing the general availability of the Hitachi iQ portfolio of AI-ready infrastructure, solutions, and services. Including NVIDIA DGX BasePOD certification, the first Hitachi iQ infrastructure offering meets the highest standards of performance and reliability and helps customers seamlessly power their most critical AI applications. Featuring the Hitachi Content Software for File solution, Hitachi iQ provides customers the speed, efficiency, and processing to accelerate and optimize their time to insights so that they can drive transformative outcomes for their business, according to the company.
Posted July 29, 2024
Baffle, a company that protects sensitive data, is offering new capabilities designed to secure multi-tenant applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—giving AWS customers the ability to secure data in databases as well as S3 object storage with simplicity and ease by protecting each tenant within the multi-tenant application.
Posted July 29, 2024
Eventually the day comes when an existing data mart or warehouse needs to be re-examined. Maybe new workloads are desired, new business models arise, a new platform is considered, or new supporting tools in the environment are wanted. Especially when a new platform is part of the equation, many in charge think first of "lift and shift" as the approach. Taking as much existing data and processes as possible and keeping them virtually unchanged as things are moved onto new foundations is almost always the cost-saving approach—for the immediate short term.
Posted July 29, 2024
Privacera, the AI and data security governance company founded by the creators of Apache Ranger, is offering a private preview of Posture Manager, expanding on its ability to deliver active Data Security Posture Management (DSPM). The solution is designed to transform data security with enhanced visualization, mapping, and data risk analytical capabilities, according to the vendor.
Posted July 26, 2024
Backslash Security, a modern application security solution that leverages deep reachability analysis for enterprise AppSec and product security teams, is debuting new capabilities for the Backslash platform that are designed to alleviate the various pain points associated with AppSec. The two new features—Fix Simulation and Attack Path Remediation—provide advanced remediation guidance that incorporates safety, security, and app context to solve critical vulnerability challenges.
Posted July 25, 2024
Qlik, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), is releasing Qlik Talend Cloud, a streamlined integrated solution designed to enhance data trust and accessibility for AI value creation. Underpinned by trusted Qlik and Talend technologies, trusted by some of the world's largest brands, Qlik Talend Cloud is designed to facilitate responsible enterprise AI adoption, according to the company.
Posted July 25, 2024
SUSE, a global leader in innovative, open and secure enterprise-grade solutions, is acquiring the full stack observability platform StackState, enabling SUSE to accelerate cloud-native observability for the enterprise by integrating the platform into Rancher Prime, its premium container management service.
Posted July 25, 2024