Displaying items by tag: SecOps

• ‘Intelligent partner’ for SecOps and NetOps will allow teams to query network activity, drill down into security events and rapidly implement mitigations
• New support for teams who must manage more deployment models than ever, with 88% of organisations now employing a hybrid approach

Leading cyber security solutions provider Rapid7 has provided its top three predictions for 2025. The Nasdaq-listed company with a global footprint had its Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Public Partnerships, Sabeen Malik, who is based in Washington DC, and UK-based Chief Scientist Raj Samani, look into their crystal ball and these are their three predictions for 2025.

Craig Sanderson, Vice President of Security Products and Scott Harrell, CEO of Infoblox. who has extensive experience in security solutions, outlines the growing role of legislation in the fight against cybercrime. While Scott, with an extensive background in product and security engineering, dives into the need to unite and automate workflows across cloud, security, and networking so customers can have the confidence to move fast and scale up.

GUEST OPINION:  As digital transformation continues to reshape the technology landscape, organisations are adopting Security Operations (SecOps) to unify physical security and IT under a single defence strategy.

GUEST INTERVIEW: iTWire talks to Google Cloud Security's Head of SecOps, Peter Bailey, and learns how Google's platform can help other organisations run their own security operations and monitor threat intelligence.

COMPANY NEWS: Infoblox, a leader in cloud networking and security services, today unveiled its new Infoblox Ecosystem Program. Key to the program is a self-service portal that features certified out-of-the-box integrations for leading technology providers. Infoblox-certified integrations undergo rigorous testing, optimisation, validation, and ongoing updates to ensure seamless compatibility, and are backed by support for Infoblox-developed integrations. These integrations empower NetOps and SecOps teams to break down silos, automate workflows, and strengthen security posture across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments ─ all in one place.

Cybersecurity company Trellix reports that it has detected indicators of collaboration between ransomware groups and nation-state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) actors, adoption and usage of lesser-known programming languages for malware, and cybercriminals developing Generative AI (GenAI) tools.

COMPANY NEWS: Infoblox, the company that delivers a simplified, cloud-enabled networking and security platform for improved performance and protection, today announced the appointment of Mukesh Gupta as senior vice president and chief product officer.

GUEST OPINION: IT leaders are currently facing a hybrid cloud security conundrum. While the hybrid cloud market is going through impressive growth, the multiple benefits around the agility and scalability that come with hybrid cloud infrastructure are paired with serious concerns about its security.

GUEST RESEARCH: Gigamon, the leader in deep observability, today announced its Hybrid Cloud Security trends report, emphasising a significant gap between the perception and reality of how secure organisations truly are from cyberthreats.

GUEST OPINION: As with all technology, new tools are iterations built on what came before, and classic network logging and metrics are no different.

GUEST RESEARCH: Gigamon, the leading deep observability company, today announced the findings of a new research study from IDC, conducted with more than 900 IT leaders from around the world, which offers CIOs, CISOs, and their IT organisations invaluable insights to drive performance, protection, and productivity with observability across their digital infrastructures.

GUEST OPINION: Enterprises enter 2023 with several unique challenges that will put NetOps, DevOps, and SecOps front and centre. Almost all enterprises operate in a hybrid and multi-cloud world.

GUEST RESEARCH: Rubrik, the zero trust data security company, today announced the Australian findings from its inaugural State of Data Security report, commissioned by Rubrik and conducted by Wakefield Research. Among the key findings regarding the most pressing challenge Australian cybersecurity leaders face in securing their organisation's data was "insufficient talent in IT and SecOps", cited by 26% of respondents as the top security challenge.

GUEST OPINION: As organisations flock the cloud, they are initiating new architectures and migrating existing applications to infrastructure-as-a-service providers and hybrid clouds via 'lift and shift' or refactoring.

GUEST OPINION: Keen to speed up innovation and achieve a competitive edge, increasing numbers of Australian organisations are turning to cloud-native architectures and DevOps practices. The logic is that this will allow faster development cycles and give the ability to take advantage of new opportunities as they arise.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform will soon be available on Microsoft Azure.

Identity provider Okta has announced Okta Starter Developer Edition, which will provide developers with the tools needed to embed Okta authentication, authorisation and user management into applications at scale.

Guest Opinion by Yaniv Hoffman, Radware – The move to continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) and agile development methodologies means that application development now requires network IT operation teams (NetOps) and security operation teams (SecOps) to work together, which puts increased stress on developers and engineers.

GUEST OPINION by Yaniv Hoffman, Radware: With cloud-based applications come new security risks that require expertise which is typically scarce and that can delay application deployment and maintenance.