Tag: security

The Google Cloud Next ’21 event was an opportunity for Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to present the future direction of Google Cloud. Futurum Research analyst Fred McClimans breaks down the key announcements and explains how their focus on customer transformation and sustainability is a sign of Google Cloud’s growing maturity.
The Ransom Disclosure Act proposed by Senator Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Representative Deborah Ross would require the victims of ransomware attacks to report payments to their hackers within 48 hours. Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans explore the proposed act as part of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts series, along with an exploration of the current state of ransomware threats, and insights on why this proposed act would provide an assist to the Department of Homeland Security as it seeks a deeper understanding of the ransomware threat landscape.
Futurum Research Principal Analyst Daniel Newman and Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provide their take on Splunk’s Q2 earnings announcement. The company is shuffling the executive deck, making strategic investments to bolster its security portfolio and also transition to a recurring revenue based on workload pricing, rather than data ingestion and seems to be executing on all fronts given the strong numbers for Q2.
In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, Futurum co-founder Daniel Newman talks with Juniper Network’s VP of Security and Business Strategy , Samantha Madrid about the future of networking and security.
At its recent Inspire event, Microsoft announced Windows 365 and Cloud PC offering. Futurum’s Shelly Kramer walks through the benefits of the offering and highlights security as one of the most attractive features. For more of her insights, check out the article.
BMC today announced new capabilities aimed at security, facilitating a modern development experience, and promoting an open, collaborative mainframe. Futurum analyst Steven Dickens shares his insights on the relevance and timeliness of these capabilities as well as what’s ahead.
Futurum’s Steven Dickens analyzes first half 2021 results for Micro Focus and finds encouraging news on the company's strategic focus on three year back end transformation and the forging of encouraging partnerships. Micro Focus is focused on explosive growth areas of the market so should be one to watch as they continue to deliver on operational execution.
Futurum Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his take on news coming out of HPE’s Discover event around the latest zero-trust solution, Project Aurora. As the cybersecurity landscape evolves, new approaches are required to combat the emerging threats. HPE’s zero-trust approach is designed to deliver robust attestation and verification derived through a root-of-trust model at the silicon layer.
Futurum’s Daniel Newman takes on the fear mongering that’s dominated the media about Amazon Sidewalk in the simplest of terms: it’s a big, fat nothing burger. Here’s why.
In this newest episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts series, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans discuss nuances of the Colonial Pipeline attack and how the weakest link can take down the whole system, DarkSide’s Ransomware-as-a-Service offering, DarkSide’s servers being taken out, the Biden administration’s Executive Order aimed at hardening the Fed’s cybersecurity defenses, and the unusual act of the FBI and its court-ordered mitigation of Microsoft Exchange servers impacted by the recent hack.
We believe that with AWS entering the Confidential Computing space, the bigger message here is that Big Tech is increasingly addressing data security in novel and important ways by addressing the entire data chain to ensure that organizations are able to pass on that security to their customers. We expect big things ahead in the Confidential Computing space and AWS, as always, is on the forefront.

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