Mike Vizard

At the Black Hat USA 2017 conference today, Digital Guardian unveiled a data loss prevention (DLP) cloud service that leverages the agent software the company employs to drive a threat detection service. Dave Karp, chief product officer for Digital Guardian, says the Digital Guardian Analytics and Reporting Cloud makes use of an implementation of the […]

Nothing literally trips IT professionals up inside a data center more than managing cables. Keeping track of which cables are attached to which storage systems or servers can be a major challenge in an enterprise-class IT organization. To simplify that process, Wave2Wave Solution today unveiled the ROME 250 Robotic Optical Switching platform that runs all […]

At the Black Hat USA 2017 conference today, JASK unveiled an approach to applying artificial intelligence (AI) to IT security that employs crowdsourcing to continuously train the AI modules. JASK CEO Greg Martin says JASK Trident is a security operations center (SOC) based on an instance hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) based on the […]

As organizations of all sizes are held more accountable for how they manage sensitive and personal data, many of them are just now coming to realize how little they know about what classes of data reside where inside their organization. Veritas Technologies today unveiled an Integrated Classification Engine that will be embedded across its portfolio […]

Rather than continuing to rely solely on mere mortals to defend IT environments against increasingly complex IT security attacks, Fujitsu America is now making a case for a suite of managed security services imbued with artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent malware from ever penetrating an organization’s defenses in the first place. Jason Bradlee, head of […]

As the number of processor cores in a server increases, the number of virtual machines and containers making requests to access data exponentially increases. Before too long, network bottlenecks start to emerge as all those virtual machines and containers attempt to share access to the underlying physical network. To alleviate that issue, Solarflare is now […]

Now that Google has focused more of its cloud computing efforts on enterprise IT customers, it is starting to attract broader support from vendors targeting those same classes of customers. Citrix this week announced it has expanded its alliance with Google to include an instance of Citrix Workspace Cloud for accessing Windows applications running on […]

One of the criticisms leveled at the usage of bots in, for example, customer service engagement is that underlying algorithms used to create the bot don’t understand tone and context. To address that specific issue, IBM this week announced it has refined the Tone Analyzer application programming interface (API) for the IBM Watson platform to […]

One of the biggest concerns business and IT leaders alike share when it comes to anything to do with Internet of Things (IOT) projects is security. The more devices that get connected to the internet, the bigger the attack surface that needs to be defended becomes. To help IT organizations better defend those environments, CyberX […]

One of the challenges IT organizations struggle with daily is the number of IT security alerts being generated. The bigger the security information and event management (SIEM) platform, the greater the number of alerts generated. To bring some order to that potential chaos, STEALTHbits Technologies this week announced it has built three security applications integrated […]

As part of an effort to advance hybrid cloud computing deployments, Oracle today unveiled a bevy of managed services offerings for on-premises IT environments that mirror existing Oracle cloud services. Amit Zavery, senior vice president of Oracle Cloud Platform, says the Oracle Cloud at Customer portfolio of services provides instances of everything from IT infrastructure […]

As data becomes more distributed across the enterprise, IT organizations are clearly struggling. It was often hard enough for them to manage the data they had on-premise. As organizations rely more on cloud services that are frequently accessed by mobile computing devices, data is increasingly strewn everywhere. Veritas Technologies today announced it wants to bring […]