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against even the most pernicious volumetric
and zero-day attacks," while her Radware
counterpart, Gary Sevounts said, "Today's
ever-changing threat landscape, necessitates
a layered, defence in-depth approach
to security that scales to global enterprise
networks and combines advanced threat
detection, mitigation, and perimeter protection.
Radware DDoS attack detection and
mitigation service complements Aryaka's
existing security controls and contributes to
a robust security program that meets internationally
accepted security practices."
Boldly claiming a "first-of-its kind solution
to protect critical network, IoT, ICS, and
SCADA devices from privilege-based
attacks," BeyondTrust has announced
PowerBroker for Networks. It's an agentless
solution that controls what commands users
can run, records sessions, alerts, and provides
a complete audit trail of user activity
on network devices via the command line.
Delivered with a modular design that is
highly scalable, its architecture easily scales
to hundreds of thousands of nodes without
overburdening the network or its administrators.
PowerBroker for Networks helps organisations
to manage large, distributed, and
heterogeneous infrastructures while delivering
optimal performance without limiting
activity and integrates with the central
PowerBroker console so that customers can
work with a single policy, management and
reporting interface.
Commenting, Christopher Kissel, Senior
Cybersecurity Analyst at Frost & Sullivan
said, "The idea of identity seems intuitive,
but identity can be distorted either by inside
actors imitating legitimate credential holders,
or miscreants escalating credentials. A
seemingly credentialed actor can wreak
havoc as SecOps teams often cannot discover
nefarious behavior emanating from
users with proper credentials. BeyondTrust
PowerBroker for Networks is an important
and evolutionary step in identity and access
management (IAM), offering network
administrators a single-point of management
for important functions such as command
and control session monitoring and
auditing, the generation of logs for SIEM
and automating single sign-on. Additionally,
PowerBroker for Networks moves identity
from a role-based static event, into an
observable, fluid event, where identitychange
can be an indicator of compromise,
or where SecOps can block access, even
for credentialed actors."
Amulet Hotkey, providers of remote physical
and virtual workstation solutions has
launched a new high-performance IP-based
KVM Extender, claiming that it is "built on
the success of five generations and trusted
in mission critical deployments." The company
explains that "the DX KVM extenders
are an excellent solution to provide secure
remote access to workstations and systems
in deployments such as command and control,
design engineering, as well as media
and entertainment, helping to increase 360-
degree situational awareness, enable secure
collaboration between teams, organisations
and nations, or speed the design, visualisation
and simulation of anything from animation
and movies, to aircraft and cars."
Commenting, Andrew Jackson, president
at Amulet Hotkey says, "Advanced and collaborative
workflows can incorporate any
system including high-resolution images,
complex graphics and video to accelerate
real-time analysis and decisions or boost
creative team productivity."
Most users don't care how their device
connects, but they do care when it doesn't,
and a poor wireless service is far too
often at the heart of the problem. Bringing
new direction to this previously unaddressed
problem, Mist has introduced
what they claim to be "the industry's first
AI-driven Virtual Network Assistant (VNA)."
It uses natural language processing to
interact with Mist's learning WLAN and in
turn simplifying wireless troubleshooting
and offering those that need it, unprecedented
insight.
Explaining its significance, Bob Friday,
CTO and co-founder at Mist said, "VNA is
the next step in our journey towards building
an intelligent AI-driven network that
simplifies operations, lowers operational
expenses and gives unprecedented insight
into the wireless user experience. We started
with a robust distributed micro-servicesbased
software architecture built on a
cloud-based platform that collects and
manages an enormous amount of data.
[Then] we implemented a patented
methodology for organising and classifying
this data into domain specific service levels.
With today's announcement, Mist now
delivers a VNA that can answer questions
on par with a wireless domain expert." NC
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