Five Minute Briefing - Data Center
August 10, 2020
Five Minute Briefing - Data Center: August 10, 2020. Published in conjunction with SHARE Inc., a bi-weekly report geared to the needs of data center professionals.
News Flashes
As companies undergo their digital transformations and move core workloads to the cloud, the entire C-suite is facing a re-framing of their roles to meet customer demands, all while keeping security front and center. For these executives, the need to protect data while delivering meaningful customer experiences is paramount. Adobe, IBM, and Red Hat have formed a strategic partnership to help accelerate digital transformation and strengthen real-time data security for enterprises, with a focus on regulated industries.
Attivo Networks, a provider of cybersecurity threat detection software, has announced an integration with IBM Security Resilient, the company's security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) platform. "Once attackers bypass existing prevention mechanisms, they have the freedom to move around and can remain undetected for extended periods. Organizations need solutions that excel at finding in-network threats without relying on known signatures or attack patterns," said Tushar Kothari, chief executive officer of Attivo Networks. "The accuracy of this joint solution, coupled with its accelerated response, gives organizations the ability to deal with threats quickly to minimize the time attackers have to remain undetected within the network."
IBM Services and CBRE, the largest commercial real estate services company in the world, are expanding their long-term relationship to provide technology support services for CBRE's clients at select data center facilities it manages. A new CBRE offering called Smart Maintenance is the latest addition to their existing suite of Converged Data Center Services. Powered by IBM Services, it leverages IBM's AI, augmented reality technologies and deep analytics to provide vendor-agnostic, predictive and reactive hardware maintenance for CBRE's data center clients' technology assets.
IBM Security has announced the results of a global study examining the financial impact of data breaches, revealing that these incidents cost the companies studied $3.86 million per breach on average, and that compromised employee accounts were the most expensive root cause. According to the study, stolen or compromised credentials and cloud misconfigurations were the most common causes of a malicious breach for companies in the report, representing nearly 40% of malicious incidents.
IBM and SAP are deepening their partnership with plans to develop several new offerings designed to create a more predictable journey for businesses to become data-driven intelligent enterprises. The Evolution Partnership initiative intends to deliver new intelligent industry solutions to enable end-to-end processes that help companies accelerate the modernization of systems and workflows.
News From SHARE
Digital certificates are equivalent to a website's identification card, or driver's license, ensuring that a website is real and not a scam website attempting to steal users' personal information, such as credit card numbers. At SHARE Fort Worth, Broadcom software engineers Seamus Hayes and Jamieson Walker explained that digital certificates also contain a cryptographic key that can be used to send encrypted messages to the server, allowing for private, secure communication.
Think About It
atSpoke has compiled a report which analyzed customers' ticket data from Jan. 1 through June 30, 2020, showing how internal support teams were impacted by COVID-19 and how their operations have changed over time.