Friday Tech News: 2/11/2022

Hello & happy Friday! I'm Phil Moroni, and I'm your Account Executive. Welcome to another edition of Friday Tech News!

My passion is to help people in whatever way I'm able. I enjoy supporting IT and Procurement leaders in evaluating, investing, and managing tools that support their businesses in IT Operations, Service Management, and Security. So, why am I writing this and what is this newsletter all about?

What is this?

Each week, I post relevant industry updates from popular OEM's, Publishers, and Providers. The intent of my research and newsletter is to keep you better informed about current trends and events that may affect your business and role(s) from a trusted and reputable source. I follow and work with hundreds of partners in industry and keep apprised of how they're growing, changing, and evolving.

While you are likely spending your day focusing on improving your business through digital initiatives, my commitment is to keep you abreast of the changes and trends that are taking place at rapid pace.

Key areas of focus for me are:

1. Cloud Computing, Security, Trends
2. Developer Tools & Security Tools
3. Networking & Infrastructure Tools
4. End User Tools & Workspace Tech
5. Emerging Technologies & Future Concepts

Contents of this newsletter include:

1. Tech Related Articles I liked
2. OEM News & Updates
3. Tech Funding events
4. Tech You Oughta Know
5. Meme of the Week
6. My $.02

If you have any questions, would like information about any specific vendors or partners I follow, or would like to have a conversation about any topic that is challenging you I invite you to engage in conversation with me and my architects.

I appreciate you taking a moment to read my newsletter! Thank you, and stay digitally and physically safe!

Phil

OEM News & Updates

Vmware | VMware Tanzu Application Transformer launches

Crowdstrike | Falcon XDR: Now Available to Customers

Apple | Apple reportedly acquires UK startup AI Music

Sotero | Sotero Shares Top 5 Predictions for Data Security and Privacy in 2022

Juniper | Juniper Networks Announces Juniper Secure Edge, A Cloud-delivered Security Solution Managed By Security Director Cloud, As Next Step In SASE Journey

Fastly | Fastly Launches Edge Deployment Option for Industry's First and Only Unified WAF

Copado | Copado Launches The First Natively Integrated DevOps and Testing Platform with Its Spring 22 Release

Talend | Talend Wins Best Cloud Data Management Solution Award

LogicMonitor | LogicMonitor’s Application Error Monitoring Platform Airbrake Wins 2022 DEVIES Award

n-able | Expansion of N-able Backup for Microsoft 365 Across Partner Base

SentinelOne | Mandiant and SentinelOne Partner to Safeguard Organizations Against Cyber Threats

Fortinet | Fortinet Launches FortiGate 3000F, the latest NGFW

Cisco | Cisco, Microsoft Team on Office 365, SD-WAN Optimization

Browserstack | BrowserStack announces the launch of BrowserStack Champions, a Program to recognize the thought leaders of software testing and development

Kong | Kong Enterprise 2.7 enables companies to manage APIs and microservices at scale

Dynatrace | Dynatrace : Seamless AI-powered observability for multicloud serverless applications

Datadog | Datadog Completes Acquisition of CoScreen to Add Real-Time Collaboration for Developers

Satori | Satori Sweeps the Prestigious Cybersecurity Excellence

Tigera | Tigera launches Calico Cloud to protect cloud-native apps

Appgate | Appgate Launches New Behavioral Biometrics Solution

Palo Alto Networks | New Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Nebula finds evasive zero-day attacks

PURE Storage | Portworx by Pure Storage to collaborate with AWS

Articles I liked This Week

Bleeping Computer | MFA adoption pushes phishing actors to reverse-proxy solutions

Forbes | Low Code/No Code Platforms To The Rescue. Discovering Business Requirements The Easy Way.

Bloomberg Law | 2022 Outlook on Privacy & Data Security

Forbes | Logging Is Expensive And Static — Next-Generation Platforms Can Help

TechCrunch | How the conflict in Ukraine threatens US cybersecurity

Darkreading | Why Security Pros Are Frustrated With Cloud Security

Medium | Breaking Down the DoD Software Modernization Strategy

Softchoice | Collaboration is not (just) a technology investment, it's a culture shift

Hackernews | CISA, FBI, NSA Issue Advisory on Severe Increase in Ransomware Attacks

CIO.com | 9 ways CIOs will fail to support hybrid work in 2022

Helpnet | Why the C-suite should focus on understanding cybersecurity and investing appropriately

Tech Funding Events

Qredo | Qredo Announces an $80mm Series A Raise Led by 10T Holdings, with Strategic Investment from Coinbase, Avalanche and Terra

Productboard | Productboard pulls in $125 million, produces new CEE region unicorn at $1.725 billion valuation

Taichi | Sequoia-backed Taichi Graphics nets $50m in Series A round

Census | Data sync startup Census now worth $630 million

Polygon | Polygon Secures $450M in Funding from Sequoia-led Group, Plans for Web 3 Expansion

Watershed | Climate Solutions Platform Watershed Raises $70 Million, Reaching $1 Billion Valuation

HelpSystems | HelpSystems Signs Agreement to Acquire Tripwire to Extend Cybersecurity Portfolio

Salt Security | API protection platform Salt Security raises $140M

Tech You Oughta Know

Once again I found myself fortunate to have coffee with some stellar humans this week. Amongst them was Scott Harris who's now with Code42 and whom I've personally known for essentially my entire career as an IT Concierge and Advisor (we don't say VAR anymore...#marketing) and he's not only a great human, but he's helping solve some real problems people are facing from insider threats.

Scott recently made the move to Code42. Take a quick scroll through the slides below and learn about Code42 Incydr for Insider Risk Management. I'm very impressed with what I saw this week in a demo. I'm into things that add value and context to security programs, and this clearly is something that can do just that. If you're in the market and evaluating solutions in Data Loss Prevention....yep... DLP... I said it...you absolutely should check out Code42 Incydr.

Tech Meme of The Week

My $.02

Still here? Drop me a line @ Phil.Moroni@softchoice.com and let me know what you think of this! This new section, my $.02 (2 cents) is all about my opinion. So far this year, I'm seeing the following security related trends, topics, & buzzwords front and center:

• Observability Strategies
• API Security
• Cloud Native Everything (CNE - yep, I made that up but for real, Cloud Native is something you'll hear alongside CNAPP a lot this year)

I'm interested in all of these topics and am following a number of products / tools that support each area. Are you currently investigating a solution to one of these problems in your business? If so, I'd be curious to learn how you're evaluating the market! Feel free to reach out.