In this week’s DevOps news, VMware Carbon Black issues its semiannual Global Incident Response Threat Report. In it, the firm warns readers that COVID-19 has brought a surge in cyberattacks that security teams are struggling to keep up with -- 53% of survey respondents reported increases in cyberattacks related to COVID-19. Top endpoint security issues to be addressed include remote access inefficiencies, VPN vulnerabilities, and staff shortages. Looking forward, cloud jacking was identified by 42% of respondents as “very likely” to become more common in the next 12 mo ..read more

     Over the past eight years the Flux7 blog has served as a platform to bring you our latest insights, lessons learned, and other analysis from across the cloud ecosystem. Loyal readers of this blog know that Flux7 and NTT DATA joined forces last year allowing us to expand our portfolio of resources while sharing our depth of expertise. Today we’re excited to share that these forces have culminated in a new NTT DATA Tech Blog ..read more

     Over the past eight years the Flux7 blog has served as a platform to bring you our latest insights, lessons learned, and other analysis from across the cloud ecosystem. Loyal readers of this blog know that Flux7 and NTT DATA joined forces last year allowing us to expand our portfolio of resources while sharing our depth of expertise. Today we’re excited to share that these forces have culminated in a new NTT DATA Tech Blog ..read more

     Current economic and social forces have created a level of upheaval that has become a forcing function for digital transformation. From communications to selling, the importance of digital operations has mushroomed seemingly overnight. Indeed, research by Twilio found that Covid-19 "accelerated companies' digital communications strategy by an average of six years while 97% of enterprise decision-makers believe the pandemic sped up their company's digital transformation ..read more

     Current economic and social forces have created a level of upheaval that has become a forcing function for digital transformation. From communications to selling, the importance of digital operations has mushroomed seemingly overnight. Indeed, research by Twilio found that Covid-19 "accelerated companies' digital communications strategy by an average of six years while 97% of enterprise decision-makers believe the pandemic sped up their company's digital transformation ..read more

     Leading this week’s DevOps news are several movers and shakers. VMware announces its plans to acquire Mesh7, which enables “deep application layer security for distributed and modern cloud applications that run anywhere in a platform-agnostic and cloud-agnostic manner” according to a Mesh7 blog. Together, the companies plan to strengthen security from development to run-time, specifically targeting VMware Tanzu Service Mesh as a way to help customers more effectively deploy distributed services and application layer security. Joining the M&A news this week is Sonat ..read more

     Leading this week’s DevOps news are several movers and shakers. VMware announces its plans to acquire Mesh7, which enables “deep application layer security for distributed and modern cloud applications that run anywhere in a platform-agnostic and cloud-agnostic manner” according to a Mesh7 blog. Together, the companies plan to strengthen security from development to run-time, specifically targeting VMware Tanzu Service Mesh as a way to help customers more effectively deploy distributed services and application layer security. Joining the M&A news this week is Sonat ..read more

     Security tops the news in this week’s DevOps news. On the heels of the Solar Winds breach, ESET Research has found that at least ten APT groups are likely using recent Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities to compromise email servers around the world. Researchers say that these groups have compromised more than 5,000 Microsoft Exchange email servers in 115 countries. Additionally, McAfee announced this week that it will sell its Enterprise business to Symphony Technology Group (STG) in a $4.0 billion transaction which is expected to close by the end of 2021. And, further ..read more

     Security tops the news in this week’s DevOps news. On the heels of the Solar Winds breach, ESET Research has found that at least ten APT groups are likely using recent Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities to compromise email servers around the world. Researchers say that these groups have compromised more than 5,000 Microsoft Exchange email servers in 115 countries. Additionally, McAfee announced this week that it will sell its Enterprise business to Symphony Technology Group (STG) in a $4.0 billion transaction which is expected to close by the end of 2021. And, further ..read more

     In many IT shops, teams continue to tackle the process of creating resources, like Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), by hand in a time-consuming, error-prone process that can result in inconsistent security across Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. Helping organizations with this process, today we’re introducing our Serverless AMI Bakery Accelerator (SABA) that empowers teams to automate the AMI build and deployment processes ..read more