IT News Week 3 of Jun 2019

For this week / last week, here are / were the biggest news:
  • Jun 11, 2019 - Audi, Renault, Honda Add In-Car AI With TMall Genie Auto
  • Jun 11, 2019 - Sophos Boosts Intercept X for Server with Endpoint Detection and Response to Help Businesses of all Sizes Battle New Blended Cyberattacks
  • Jun 10, 2019 - Theale - A10 Networks Extends Cloud Portfolio with Ultra High-Performance Container-Based Solutions
  • Jun 10, 2019 - Hitachi Vantara Shares How Cloud Broker Software Can be an Enterprise Best Friend
  • Jun 10, 2019 - Synopsys Software Integrity Group shares 5 best practices of achieving non-zero days Security Issues for Software Deployment
Jun 11, 2019 - Audi, Renault, Honda Add In-Car AI With TMall Genie Auto

Owners of Audis, Renaults and Hondas in China will soon be able to “ask” their cars for everything from restaurant suggestions to movie tickets thanks to speech-recognition technology from Alibaba’s artificial-intelligence unit, the company said Tuesday during the CES Asia conference in Shanghai.

The Renault City K-ZE Tmall Genie Edition, complete with Tmall’s cat logo on the outside and Tmall Genie Auto inside, will be on sale in China later this year

The automakers plan to integrate Tmall Genie Auto, a voice-controlled product from Alibaba A.I. Labs, into select models of internet cars they sell in the world’s second-largest economy. The new smart assistant for cars will allow owners of select models to request recommendations for nearby places to eat, purchase movie tickets, order food for delivery, even make purchases on Alibaba’s Taobao and Tmall e-commerce platforms – without taking their eyes off the road.

The global connected-car market is expected to grow 270% by 2022, with more than 125 million connected passenger cars to be shipped between 2018 and 2022, according to a report from market research firm Counterpoint Insights.

Jun 11, 2019 - Sophos Boosts Intercept X for Server with Endpoint Detection and Response to Help Businesses of all Sizes Battle New Blended Cyberattacks

Sophos (LSE: SOPH), a global leader in network and endpoint security, today announced Intercept X for Server with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR). By adding EDR to Intercept X for Server, IT managers can investigate cyberattacks against servers, a sought-after target due to the high value of data stored there. Cybercriminals frequently evolve their methods and are now blending automation and human hacking skills to successfully carry out attacks on servers. This new type of blended attack combines the use of bots to identify potential victims with active adversaries making decisions about who and how to attack.

The SophosLabs Uncut article, Worms Deliver Cryptomining Malware to Web Servers, underscores how easy it is for cybercriminals to leverage bots to discover soft targets.

Jun 10, 2019 - Theale - A10 Networks Extends Cloud Portfolio with Ultra High-Performance Container-Based Solutions

A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) has announced a cloud-ready, lightweight set of container-based solutions to provide secure application services. They offer the industry’s highest performing container solutions with up to 200 Gbps of throughput for A10 Networks’ Thunder Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Carrier-Grade Networking (CGN), and Convergent Firewall (CFW) solutions.

The addition of Thunder Containers extends the company’s multi-cloud portfolio and increases the performance, security and availability of applications, enabling customers to confidently run their critical workloads in multi-cloud environments at hyperscale. Customers can meet the increased traffic demands, while maintaining predictable service levels when deploying applications in multiple geographic locations and across public and private clouds.

In addition, it can eliminate the struggle between NetOps/SecOps and DevOps with unified and consistent application, feature-set and policy control across traditional data center and multi-cloud environments.

Jun 10, 2019 - Hitachi Vantara Shares How Cloud Broker Software Can be an Enterprise Best Friend

With the influx of data, there is a higher focus on backup and archiving applications. Tape can become inefficient as it poses problems like the difficulty of searching for data stored on tapes.

While enterprises consider to back up their data using cloud instead, what kinds of challenges would they face? Pratyush Khare, Chief Technology Officer APAC, Hitachi Vantara shares these:
  1. Overburdening the backup application
  2. Cloud vendor lock-in
  3. Data Security
  4. Network Cost

Jun 10, 2019 - Synopsys Software Integrity Group shares 5 best practices of achieving non-zero days Security Issues for Software Deployment

In the world of software, it’s critical for security to cover the entire development lifecycle. But how will this ensure that the velocity of development and deployment processes aren’t negatively impacted?

Florian Thurmann, Director of Software Security Operations at Synopsys Software Integrity Group shares 5 best practices to strengthen your strategy.
  • Best Practice #1: Eliminate vulnerabilities before software moves into production.
  • Best Practice #2: Address security in architecture, design, open source, and third-party components.
  • Best Practice #3: Enable application security measures within the developer environment.
  • Best Practice #4: Build an AppSec tool-belt that brings together the solutions necessary to manage risk.
  • Best Practice #5: Create security concepts that help your development and operations teams implement cloud security best practices.

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