Tag: Application and Platform Security
The funding was led by major names of Silicon Valley venture capital including Andreessen Horowitz and comes after Wiz executives signaled an intensified push with channel partners. Wiz on Tuesday announced $1 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation as the four-year-old company sees surging growth in the cloud and AI security markets.…
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Riverbed’s CEO Dave Donatelli tells CRN that the new platform, coupled with its features and latest version of its AI service, presents a “whole new way of doing things” for the market. Riverbed has launched what the company is calling its biggest release in years: an open, AI-powered observability platform aimed at filling in the…
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Abacus Group, NexusTek, Astrica, Wipro, HP, Microsoft and Saviynt were among the tech companies making key executive hires and moves during April 2024. New CEOs at Abacus Group, NexusTek, Astrica and Wipro were some of the biggest executive moves last month. Anthony D’Ambrosi, formerly of ATSG; Hamilton Yu; Vicky Papa, formerly of NTT Data; and…
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“I’ve been trying to take everything that’s been negative about this and … turn it into some sort of positive,” Robert Cioffi said in an interview. Robert Cioffi, chief technology officer and co-founder of Progressive Computing, one of the MSPs hit in the 2021 Kaseya ransomware attack, traveled about 1,500 miles from his home in…
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Yaroslav Vasinskyi, 24, must also pay more than $16 million in restitution. Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a Ukrainian national accused in the July 2, 2021, ransomware attack against MSP tools vendor Kaseya, has been sentenced in the United States to 13 years and seven months in prison for his role in more than 2,500 ransomware attacks. Vasinskyi…
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‘The funding is for us to double down on investments in the channel,” says Dave Colesante, Apptega CEO. ‘It’s being able to package up compliance-as-a-service with our partners and do the same on the security scoring part.’ Apptega has raised $15 million in funding to accelerate the development of technology that brings continuous compliance to…
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‘One of the things we’ve been really pushing out there is becoming that chief AI strategist … just like a virtual CISO, we’re that virtual person that is out there coming in to assess, making sure you get all your ducks in a row. And then as you go down that path, really handholding you,…
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‘All of these tools are now available, the sophistication of how people can deploy these models across various business processes where there is data and where there is tuning of these models is also getting more widespread, even at systems integrators and other developers [that] are there to help enterprises,’ says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.…
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AI, Azure and security are just some of the biggest topics expected to come up Thursday on the company’s third fiscal quarter earnings call. Updates on Microsoft’s artificial intelligence and Copilot offerings. Growth in the cloud and Azure business. And the tech giant’s position in the ever-competitive security market. These are some of the biggest…
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“We believe there will be added demand because a combined portfolio is more interesting,” IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said on an earnings call. IBM executives painted the planned $6.4 billion purchase of cloud infrastructure tools vendor HashiCorp as complementary to multiple business segments – including fellow open-source tools provider Red Hat – even as IBM…
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