Welcome to this week’s edition of the Weekly Cybertech Roundup, where we bring you the most significant developments and trends shaping the world of cyber technology. From groundbreaking innovations to critical security updates, our roundup highlights the key stories that are driving the industry forward. Whether you’re a tech enthusiast, a cybersecurity professional, or just curious about the latest advancements, we’ve got you covered with all the insights you need to stay informed. Let’s dive into this week’s highlights!
Rubrik to Support Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Rubrik announced a collaboration with Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, designed to support Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization on Rubrik Security Cloud. General availability is expected in early 2025. According to Rubrik Zero Labs’ State of Data Security: Measuring Your Data’s Risk, attackers tried to affect the backups in 96% of attacks and were at least partially successful in 74% of those reported attempts. Rubrik Security Cloud, using Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, is designed to help organizations more easily migrate and protect virtual machines (VMs) and applications running on a trusted, more consistent, and comprehensive application platform.
Snowflake Unistore Launches Hybrid Tables for Data Unity
Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, announced at its annual developer conference, BUILD 2024, a modern approach to bring transactional and analytical data together in a single, unified platform with Unistore. Unistore is powered by Hybrid Tables (now generally available on AWS), a table type that enables fast, high-concurrency point operations to support transactional workloads. With Unistore, customers can further simplify their data architectures, while ensuring consistent security and governance across their data.
Snyk’s Massive Move: Acquiring Probely to Dominate Web & API Security
DevSecOps powerhouse Snyk has announced its acquisition of Probely, a dynamic application security testing (DAST) company based in Porto, Portugal. This strategic move marks a significant expansion of Snyk’s security portfolio, particularly in the areas of API security testing and web application security. The acquisition of Probely further demonstrates Snyk’s strong track record of strategic mergers and acquisitions, following successful deals with companies like DeepCode, Reviewpad, Enso Security, and Helios. These acquisitions have driven agile innovation and expanded Snyk’s solution offerings.
IBM Boosts Security with Generative AI & Automation on AWS
IBM announced Autonomous Security for Cloud (ASC), an AI-powered solution from IBM Consulting designed to automate cloud security management and decision-making to help mitigate risk for organizations accelerating their cloud journey on Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. Highlighted in IBM’s 2024 Cloud Threat Landscape report, misconfigurations and compliance failures were identified as the top threats organizations face as they increasingly rely on cloud computing environments.
Red Hat to Acquire Neural Magic in New Agreement
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Neural Magic, a pioneer in software and algorithms that accelerate generative AI (gen AI) inference workloads. Neural Magic’s expertise in inference performance engineering and commitment to open source aligns with Red Hat’s vision of high-performing AI workloads that directly map to customer-specific use cases and data, anywhere and everywhere across the hybrid cloud.
