Sean Michael Kerner

Sysdig got its start as a technology provider for virtualized application visibility and has steadily expanded into cloud-native security. Now the company is looking to combine workload visibility and intelligence together with security controls in a new platform update. The Sysdig Cloud-Native Visibility and Security Platform (VSP) 2.0 release is set to be announced on […]

As the tax filing deadline of April 15 nears, attackers are ramping up their efforts to defraud Americans with a variety of scams. On April 8, IBM’s X-Force security research team reported a trio of sophisticated email campaigns that spoof major accounting and payroll firms in a bid to trick unsuspecting victims. The campaigns all […]

While there is no shortage of talk about the “dark web” where hackers use hidden sites to sell and exchange criminal tools and services, Cisco’s Talos security research unit found that there are literally hundreds of thousands of people interacting with cyber-criminal services in plain sight. In a report released on April 5, Cisco Talos […]

SUSE has gone through a number of transitions and ownership changes over the past two decades, and it’s now changing again, as the Linux vendor re-emerges as an independent vendor. At the SUSECON 2019 conference in Nashville, Tenn., which ran from April 2-4, SUSE’s management and executive teams outlined the vision for the company as […]

Once again, Facebook users are being warned about a data leak that could potentially expose them to risk, as over 540 million data records from the social network have been found publicly exposed in the cloud. The impact of the data disclosure is however being debated by one of the vendors that has been implicated […]

There is a security gap lurking within cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications that could be exposing enterprises to risks that they don’t know about, according to AppOmni co-founder and CEO Brendan O’Connor. AppOmni officially emerged from stealth on April 3, bringing with it a new model for securing Cloud SaaS applications from potential data losses and […]

Apache HTTP Web Server users are being urged to update their servers to patch for a series of vulnerabilities in the widely deployed open-source technology. The Apache HTTP Server (commonly referred to as simply “Apache”) is a foundational component of the modern internet and is the most widely used web server in the world today. […]

The open-source Xen Project announced the 4.12 release of its namesake hypervisor virtualization technology on April 2, providing organizations and cloud operators with improved performance and security features. The new release integrates an improved virtual machine introspection capability that can be used to detect potential zero-day vulnerabilities. The Argo hypervisor-mediated data exchange is another new […]

Chef has been at the forefront of the DevOps movement with its namesake open-source Chef project. Not all of Chef’s platforms, however, have been open-source, with some available under commercial proprietary licenses. On April 2, Chef announced a major shift in its company alignment, making all of its products available under the Apache 2.0 open-source […]

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are often over-used terms in a modern cyber-security context, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t useful for helping organizations and vendors to improve. Among the many vendors that have embraced AI is McAfee, which is integrating different capabilities across its portfolio. Beyond the buzzword hype, AI has real value, […]