Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Kubernetes’ last release for the year v1..23 will be released next week Tuesday, December 7, 2021 The Christmas edition of Kubernetes comes with 45 new enhancements to make it more mature, secure, and scalable. In this blog, we’ll focus on the critical changes grouped into the Kubernetes API, containers and infrastructure, storage, networking, and security. Let's start with the “face of Kubernetes”, which makes it scalable and expandable.

For the third year in a row, WatchGuard has been honored at Channel Partner Insight’s 2021 Channel Innovation Awards. This year, Senior Vice President of Marketing Michelle Welch was named the “Security Channel Chief of Year.” This annual awards program celebrates the partners and vendors that have brought true value and innovation to the managed services market and made a real difference to their customers over the last 12 months.

We are very excited to announce that Snyk has achieved AWS Security Competency status, further validating our commitment to security excellence in partnering with AWS!

We’re excited to announce updates to Sumo Logic AWS Quick Start Integrations that enable customers to automate the integration of AWS Security Reference Architecture within Sumo Logic Cloud SIEM powered by AWS. The new integrations automate the collection, ingestion, and analysis of applications, infrastructure, security, and IoT data to derive actionable insights for security engineering teams.

Cybersecurity threats are on the rise. Over the past year, we’ve observed a 148% increase in ransomware attacks and an 85% increase in phishing attacks targeting remote users. Worse still, these attacks are growing increasingly sophisticated, with threat actors using eight or more vectors in the same attack, often deploying multiple vectors within minutes of one another.

Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) enterprise recently announced that Splunk is the winner of its third prize challenge in the Artificial Intelligence Applications to Autonomous Cybersecurity (AI ATAC) Challenge series.

On July 19, 2021, The Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve System (Board), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released their proposed interagency guidance around third-party risk management. SecurityScorecard submitted comments in response to the proposal urging the agencies to include the adoption of security ratings to mitigate the cyber risk to financial institutions introduced by third-party vendors and suppliers.

I am excited to share a major milestone for our company: the Lookout Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) has been named a Major Player in the 2021 IDC MarketScape Worldwide Cloud Security Gateways (CSG) Vendor Assessment (Doc # US48334521, November 2021). When Lookout acquired CipherCloud back in March 2021, the two companies came together with a mission to build a platform that provides intelligent Zero Trust access by leveraging in-depth telemetry from endpoint to cloud.

Veracode was recently recognized by the Commonwealth Institute and Boston Globe Magazine as a Top 100 Women-Led Business in Massachusetts. The honor, which was awarded to Veracode’s CEO, Sam King, is given to female leaders across multiple industries who are at the helm of Massachusetts’ most noteworthy companies. ​

There’s never a dull moment at Snyk and for our Channel team that it’s been especially rewarding. We’re very excited to say that this week Snyk Infrastructure as Code (Snyk IaC) was named the winner of the cloud security category for the 2021 CRN Tech Innovator award. The full list of winners, unveiled earlier this week, showcases innovative vendors in the IT channel across 47 different technology categories, in key areas ranging from cloud to storage to networking to security.