The pandemic had a negative impact on data center operations

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in a negative impact on organizations’ ability to manage their storage infrastructures in order to ensure continued access to an increasingly remote workforce and to satisfy health protocols put in pla… Continue reading The pandemic had a negative impact on data center operations

Cisco fixes critical flaws in data center and SD-WAN solutions

Cisco has released another batch of critical security updates for flaws in Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCMN) and the Cisco SD-WAN Solution software. Cisco Data Center Network Manager flaws Cisco Data Center Network Manager is the network managem… Continue reading Cisco fixes critical flaws in data center and SD-WAN solutions

Global data center networking market to reach $40.9 billion by 2025

The global data center networking market is projected to reach $40.9 billion by 2025 and projected to register 11.0% CAGR over the forecast period, from 2019 to 2025 according to Million Insights. The growing huge amount of unstructured data across sev… Continue reading Global data center networking market to reach $40.9 billion by 2025

Inline DDoS Mitigation: Could the Massive Amazon AWS Attack Have Been Avoided?

Terabit(s) per second DDoS attacks have not disappeared. Perhaps they were just taking a rest. AWS just reported a 2.3 Tbps attack earlier this year that tried to knock out cloud services over the course of 3 days during February. As reported on cbronl… Continue reading Inline DDoS Mitigation: Could the Massive Amazon AWS Attack Have Been Avoided?

SaltStack Salt vulnerabilities actively exploited by attackers, patch ASAP!

Two vulnerabilities in SaltStack Salt, an open-source remote task and configuration management framework, are being actively exploited by attackers, CISA warns. About SaltStack Salt Salt is used for configuring, managing and monitoring servers in datac… Continue reading SaltStack Salt vulnerabilities actively exploited by attackers, patch ASAP!

Salt Bugs Allow Full RCE as Root on Cloud Servers

Researchers say the bugs are easy to exploit and will likely be weaponized within a day. Continue reading Salt Bugs Allow Full RCE as Root on Cloud Servers

Researchers develop new optical stealth encryption technology

The first all optical stealth encryption technology that will be significantly more secure and private for highly sensitive cloud-computing and data center network transmission, has been introduced by BGN Technologies. Time is running out on security a… Continue reading Researchers develop new optical stealth encryption technology

Challenges of using firewall tech to do segmentation

Despite the inevitability of security-related incidents, few organizations currently protect against the spread of breaches with segmentation – only 19 percent of the 300 IT professionals surveyed by Illumio currently implement segmentation solutions t… Continue reading Challenges of using firewall tech to do segmentation

Major data center provider hit by ransomware attack, claims report

CyrusOne, a major provider of enterprise data center services, is reported to have suffered a ransomware attack.
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