Drew Robb

Oracle is expanding its cloud infrastructure footprint in the U.S. The Oracle Cloud Region in Chicago is the company’s fourth in the U.S. and serves the Midwest with infrastructure, applications, and data for optimal performance and latency, according to the company last month. The company hopes that organizations will migrate mission-critical workloads from their own […]

Yahoo is working with AWS as a preferred public cloud provider for its advertising technology business Yahoo Ad Tech. All Yahoo advertising technology workloads — including its media-buying and supply-side platforms, analytics, and identity solutions and products — are being switched from Yahoo on-premises data centers to AWS as part of an ongoing digital transformation […]

Web application firewalls (WAFs) are designed to protect web applications. They achieve this via techniques such as filtering, monitoring, and blocking of malicious HTTP/S traffic that penetrates or attempts to penetrate web applications. Web application firewall technology is a critical part of a company’s cybersecurity efforts. To help organizations keep up with this long-standing solution, […]

Vulnerability management seeks to lower risk by identifying and dealing with any possible lines of incursion into a network by cybercriminals. The field of vulnerability management includes automated scans, configuration management, regular penetration testing, patching, keeping track of various metrics, and reporting. The category has been evolving rapidly within cybersecurity, and here are some of […]

Vulnerabilities are everywhere. Whether due to sloppy passwords, misconfigurations, unpatched systems, or zero-day attacks, organizations need to be on the alert for any potential issues. Vulnerability scanning is an essential part of the cybersecurity arsenal in finding such vulnerabilities. A vulnerability is defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27002, as “a weakness of […]

A new report indicates that cybersecurity resilience is a top focus for companies as they look to defend themselves in the modern threat landscape. Based on survey responses from over 4,700 IT pros across 26 countries, 96% said security resilience is a high priority, according to Cisco’s annual ”Security Outcomes Report, Volume 3: Achieving Security […]

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft is targeting the supply chain market with its latest software release. The Microsoft Supply Chain Platform is designed to help organizations maximize their supply chain data estate investment via a combination of Microsoft artificial intelligence (AI), collaboration, low code, security, and SaaS applications within one overarching platform, according to the company […]

ARMONK, New York — IBM’s latest analytics software offering is designed to help enterprises break down data and analytics silos to facilitate better and faster decision making and address unpredictable disruptions. Known as IBM Business Analytics Enterprise, the suite covers business intelligence (BI) planning, budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and provides dashboards of data sources in use […]

ROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell Technologies is extending its data protections offerings to improve overall cyber resiliency in multicloud environments. These include Dell PowerProtect Data Manager software advancements, a new appliance, broader cyber recovery in public clouds, and zero-trust multicloud data protection as well as more flexible backup storage as-a-service and a guarantee of cyber […]

The more data you have, the greater the management burden. Hence, data management has been an ongoing challenge for years. With every innovation that calms things down, the amount of data in existence rises so sharply that the gains introduced by innovation are largely nullified. Those factors make data management a challenging field, but one […]