Traditional security controls and processes are no fit for the DevOps world because they impede agility. Trying to hack them into a DevOps culture is bound to fail. We combined our expertise in security policy management with expertise from the Dev and DevOps and we think we may have a solution.

Tufin announced the launch of its Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program.  The program extends the capabilities of the Tufin Orchestration Suite to make the platform more accessible with Tufin’s REST APIs, opening a new avenue to meet customer demand.

Tufin debuted its Network Security Policy Management Maturity Model at the CPX EMEA and CPX Americas events. The six-stage process for network security policy management was developed with insight from customers, partners, and industry analysts. 

Last week, news broke about a fundamental flaw discovered in Intel’s processor chips. The flaw can lead to two separate attacks, Meltdown and Spectre, which exploit various issues. These vulnerabilities are multiple microarchitectural (hardware) implementation issues affecting many modern microprocessors.

Welcome back to our two-part series exploring the technology trends that will impact network security in 2018. In the second part of the series we'll take a look at containerization.

In this two-part series, we play the role of security soothsayer and share our insights on the technology trends that will impact network security in 2018.

We've summarized a few of our takeaways, as well as the trends we noticed in the announcements at AWS re:Invent 2017.

Bad Rabbit borrows from prior ransomware attack Nyetya. Initially spread through drive-by downloads marketed as an Adobe Flash update from compromised websites. Bad Rabbit encrypts the end user’s hard drive, demanding a payment of bitcoin through a Tor site.