Database Security Articles
IBM and SAP are forming a partnership that will allow SAP to onboard finance and data management solutions to the IBM Cloud for Financial Services, helping companies address the industry's stringent compliance, security, and resiliency requirements, while supporting business transformation and innovation for financial services institutions.
Posted August 25, 2021
With more data than ever being created, making the right choices among the myriad options for data management and analytics is a top priority for many organizations. To help them progress along their data-driven journeys, each year, DBTA presents the Readers' Choice Awards which provides the opportunity to recognize companies whose products have been selected by the experts—our readers.
Posted August 25, 2021
Red Hat has announced the renewal of the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2) security validation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2. "The renewed FIPS 140-2 validation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 indicated Red Hat's strong commitment to delivering an independently validated, more secure platform for sensitive computing deployments across the hybrid cloud and in both the public and private sectors," said Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager, Public Sector, North America, Red Hat.
Posted August 24, 2021
IBM unveiled details of its new Telum Processor which is designed to bring deep learning inference to enterprise workloads to help address fraud in real-time. Introduced at the annual Hot Chips conference, IBM said Telum is its first processor that contains on-chip acceleration for AI inferencing while a transaction is taking place. IBM Telum is designed to enable applications to run efficiently where the data resides, helping to overcome traditional enterprise AI approaches that tend to require significant memory and data movement capabilities to handle inferencing.
Posted August 24, 2021
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is releasing Amazon MemoryDB for Redis, a fully managed, Redis-compatible, in-memory database. Amazon MemoryDB for Redis enables customers to achieve ultra-fast performance with high availability and durability for their most business-critical applications that require sub-millisecond response times, according to the vendor.
Posted August 23, 2021
Hybrid cloud computing continues to grow in popularity—offering enterprises a "best of both worlds" approach to increasing the flexibility and scalability of their IT infrastructure while maintaining control over the business-critical applications and data they want to keep behind the company firewall.
Posted August 23, 2021
IBM Security's latest cost of a data breach report found that data breaches now cost surveyed companies $4.24 million per incident on average—the highest cost in the 17-year history of the report. "While data breach costs reached a record high over the past year, the report also showed positive signs about the impact of modern security tactics, such as AI, automation and the adoption of a zero trust approach—which may pay off in reducing the cost of these incidents further down the line," said Chris McCurdy, vice president and general manager, IBM Security.
Posted August 23, 2021
SUSE has announced that its flagship Linux distribution has earned Common Criteria EAL 4+ certification. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP2 is now EAL 4+ level certified for IBM Z, Arm, and x86-64 architectures, signifying compliance with the demanding security requirements for mission-critical infrastructure.
Posted August 23, 2021
One of the major drivers behind auditing is regulatory compliance. In addition, there are many internal rules and regulations mandated by companies themselves, as well as other reasons for auditing, including monitoring and analyzing database activities for malicious and abnormal activities, developing threat detection with real-time monitoring, and integration with SIEM (security information and event management) solutions for analysis.
Posted August 18, 2021
In today's interconnected, data-driven world, secure data sharing is paramount to inter-company data sharing and driving new revenue sources by monetizing essential data assets. But with organizations adopting multiple cloud data platforms to enable self-service data access, adhering to data sharing rules and agreements while maintaining universal cloud data access control is often complicated and uncertain.
Posted August 13, 2021
Talend, a provider of data integration and integrity software, has announced the addition of new innovations to Talend Data Fabric, a complete integration and governance platform designed to manage the health of corporate information. According to Talend the enhancements provide data professionals with high-performance integrations to cloud intelligence platforms, a self-service API portal, collaborative data governance capabilities, and private connections between Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure to ensure data security.
Posted August 11, 2021
DH2i, a provider of multi-platform software defined perimeter and smart availability software, has announced the launch of developer editions of its DxEnterprise and DxOdyssey software, with free licenses for non-production use and trials.
Posted August 11, 2021
With ransomware attacks on the rise and facing the constant risk of operational failures and natural disasters, backup and recovery are a must. However, long gone are the days of just making copies of your data that you put on the shelf just in case you need to use it in the future. Today's enterprises need fast, self-service access to data that is always available to keep pace with their business.
Posted August 10, 2021
IBM is bringing advanced data protection capabilities to the IBM FlashSystem family of all-flash arrays to help companies better plan for—and recover quickly from—ransomware and other cyberattacks. According to cybersecurity firm SonicWall, ransomware attacks rose to 304.6 million in 2020, up 62% over 2019, mainly due to the highly distributed workforces caused by the pandemic. In fact, through May of 2021, the group reported 226.3 ransomware attacks already, up 116% year to date over 2020.
Posted August 09, 2021
Surviving and thriving with data science and machine learning means not only having the right platforms, tools and skills, but identifying use cases and implementing processes that can deliver repeatable, scalable business value. The challenges are numerous, from selecting data sets and data platforms, to architecting and optimizing data pipelines, and model training and deployment. As a result, new solutions have emerged to deliver key capabilities in areas including visualization, self-service and real-time analytics. Along with the rise of DataOps, greater collaboration and automation have been identified as key success factors.
Posted August 05, 2021
Saltworks, an application security (AppSec) company, is forming a partnership with attack surface management (ASM) provider Bit Discovery, enabling the company to integrate advanced ASM capabilities into SaltMiner. Saltworks customers can now benefit from fast and efficient ASM features that capture, inventory, and monitor external digital assets that can be easily viewed and managed in the SaltMiner dashboard.
Posted August 03, 2021
Agio, a leading hybrid cybersecurity and managed IT organization, is debuting a new AI-enabled service platform, AgioNow, to support a full range of managed IT and cybersecurity services. Agio's new algorithms use applied AI to help predict, find, and fix issues faster, according to the vendor. This represents a shift from the traditionally reactive role of IT and cybersecurity support to Agio's proactive focus on complex, preventative solutions.
Posted August 02, 2021
To meet the needs of the digital economy of the 2020s, data architecture has evolved into a different animal than it was 10, or even 5, years ago. Most notably, there are three trends that have changed the way enterprises look at and design their data architectures.
Posted August 02, 2021
Over the last few years it has been fascinating to see how organizations evolve their data management and application development environments. Traditionally, companies depended on monolithic architectures that initially served them well, however today's on-demand business environment calls for a model that can support a more flexible, microservices-driven approach, and facilitate the pace of innovation. Why is this trend towards microservices and a DevOps approach becoming so pervasive? The answer relates to a higher-level trend: the push towards on-demand IT, as the focus has shifted to prioritize the developer experience, and the specific technologies they are using.
Posted August 02, 2021
Let's start by admitting that the title of this article is a tease. It's a valid question and one that thinking people ask all the time. But in truth it's not the first question you should be asking. More importantly, the answer to the question really depends on how you answer the questions that you should be asking first. Here the questions to ask.
Posted August 02, 2021
Software intelligence company Dynatrace is extending Smartscape, the Dynatrace platform's real-time and continuously updated topology, to bring Dynatrace's AIOps and analytics capabilities to more open source services, including OpenTelemetry, FluentD, and Prometheus.
Posted July 30, 2021
CLEVR, the company that helps enterprises accelerate their digital transitions through low-code and no-code development solutions, is launching its international expansion of the CLEVR brand and unveiling the company's business model. When Mansystems and Flowfabric, two leading Mendix partners, merged to create a superpower in services and software development, they named the combined company CLEVR.
Posted July 30, 2021
Logz.io, a leading open source observability platform for modern DevOps teams, is forming a new strategic partnership with Microsoft Azure to streamline monitoring and observability workflows for cloud developers.
Posted July 29, 2021
Silk, the database supercharger, announced it has secured $55 million in an oversubscribed Series B round of financing, enabling the company to accelerate its sales and marketing efforts and expand engineering development.
Posted July 29, 2021
Shoreline.io, the incident automation company, is emerging from stealth with the release of its new platform designed to dramatically improve availability and reduce toil for SREs in their production environments. Shoreline makes it easy to create bots that resolve issues in seconds when an alarm is raised rather than hours using manual processes, according to the vendor.
Posted July 28, 2021
The Apache Cassandra Project is launching v4.0 of Apache Cassandra, offering more than 1,000 bug fixes, improvements and new features. As a NoSQL database, Apache Cassandra handles massive amounts of data across load-intensive applications with high availability and no single point of failure.
Posted July 28, 2021
WhiteSource is releasing WhiteSource Cure, a security auto-remediation application designed for custom code that enables organizations to accelerate the delivery of secure software at scale. WhiteSource Cure acts as a developer's personal security expert, speeding up delivery, while simultaneously reducing their workload, according to the vendor.
Posted July 28, 2021
SAP is offering three new services to help customers get the full potential of the cloud using the SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP). The new offering includes services for exploration, for process optimization and innovation as well as for re-platforming and extension development.
Posted July 28, 2021
According to "Government Index for IT Modernization," a new study of current and former U.S. government IT decision makers, commissioned by IBM, nearly 70% of those surveyed view security risks as the top barrier when migrating to modern cloud platforms.
Posted July 26, 2021
Styra, Inc., the founders of Open Policy Agent (OPA) and providers of cloud-native authorization, is releasing new cloud infrastructure support via Terraform, extending Styra Declarative Authorization Service (DAS) guardrails to storage, network, and compute resource configuration in public clouds including AWS, GCP and Azure.
Posted July 21, 2021
Oracle has attained FedRAMP High Provisional Authority to Operate (P-ATO) from the Joint Authorization Board (JAB) and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Impact Level 5 (IL5) accreditation for IaaS and PaaS, which include an extended set of cloud services for government customers to leverage, including Oracle Digital Assistant and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, to boost efficiency without straining budgets or compromising security.
Posted July 21, 2021
Everest, a regulated fin-tech company with blockchain solutions for biometric identification, custodian, and banking services, collaborates with Oracle Financial Services to enable customers to use Everest's Application Programming Interface (API) and adopt identity verification and biometric identification services provided by Everest. Everest's technology provides Oracle the ability to bring identification verification and validation services to major financial institutions across more than 180 countries.
Posted July 21, 2021
More organizations are realizing the importance of responding to queries in real-time with the right data sets. At the same time, however, there is a constant need to do more with less. That's where InfluxDB Cloud comes in, a leading time series data platform. It's more than a database—InfluxDB Cloud is your all-in-one observability platform including data ingestion tools, dashboarding engine, and real time alerting capability.
Posted July 15, 2021
Today's best-in-class applications can provide new or improved capabilities for your MultiValue system. Often these are cloud-based or even mobile applications that can modernize specific areas of your organization. The good news is that Kore Technologies provides a real-time integration platform called Kourier REST that is designed for this purpose.
Posted July 15, 2021
The business uses for cognitive computing and related technologies, including AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and robotic processing automation, are becoming more widespread than ever. To help readers gain a greater understanding about this emerging area of information technology, the solutions available, and their role in handling real-world challenges, DBTA and Big Data Quarterly present the list of Cool Companies in Cognitive Computing.
Posted July 15, 2021
Spanning the spectrum of approaches, the DBTA 100 showcases forward-looking companies that are improving and expanding upon existing technologies and processes to help their customers use data more effectively. Several top MultiValue companies land on the list again this year, including Kore Technologies, Revelation Software, and Rocket Software.
Posted July 15, 2021
Hazelcast, the real-time intelligent applications platform, is introducing the new Hazelcast Platform, enterprise software capable of serving as a single platform for transactional, operational, and analytical workloads. The Hazelcast Platform combines the capabilities of a real-time stream processing engine with in-memory computing to deliver a simplified architecture that is highly performant, scalable, and reliable, according to the vendor.
Posted July 14, 2021
AttackIQ, an independent vendor of Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) systems, announced it has secured $44 million in a Series C funding round, empowering the company to continue its investment in cybersecurity.
Posted July 13, 2021
Qlik is offering a new Cloud Services track to help partners navigate shifting technology needs, new customer buying behaviors, and evolving partner ecosystems through a collaborative engagement with Qlik.
Posted July 13, 2021
Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity leader, announced it has developed a virtual next-generation firewall (NGFW) designed to be accelerated by NVIDIA's BlueField data processing unit (DPU) to fight cybercrime. The DPU accelerates packet filtering and forwarding by offloading traffic from the host processor to dedicated hardware that is separate from the server CPU. The solution delivers the intrusion prevention and advanced security capabilities of Palo Alto Networks' virtual NGFWs to every server without sacrificing network performance.
Posted July 12, 2021
BMC, a global leader in software solutions for the Autonomous Digital Enterprise, is introducing a variety of new innovations and integrations within the BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence (BMC AMI) and BMC Compuware portfolios. These additions are designed to improve threat detection and response and expand access to mainstream DevOps tools to modernize mainframe applications and increase developer productivity.
Posted July 12, 2021
International Cyber-Security Firm GLESEC is releasing its Ransomware Protection Solution, addressing the rising risk of ransomeware and cyber security attacks. The combination of advanced technologies and expert personnel and the integration of a wealth of information that provides actionable context allows GLESEC to address and mitigate this threat around the clock 365 days a year, according to the vendor.
Posted July 09, 2021
Fauna, the data API for modern applications, is now offering Region Groups to help application developers maintain the performance and reliability of databases in their applications while ensuring that data residency regulations are met. Fauna customers will now have access to distinct Region Groups where users can keep their data resident to a specific, major region of the globe.
Posted July 08, 2021
Today's enterprises face several challenges in keeping their data safe, and for the IT teams charged with this mission, it's only getting harder. Data volumes are exploding and spreading across on-premises and cloud, making data protection increasingly complex.
Posted July 06, 2021