New infosec products of the week: December 1, 2017
Automated security and compliance solution for Docker containers
CloudPassage unveiled Container Secure, a set of automated compliance and security controls for containers. The solution secures all three parts of container environments: container images, running containers and the container engine/host. Container Secure covers five key elements essential to container security: host security, continuous image assurance, configuration assessment, visibility and compliance, and DevOps ecosystem integration.
GuardiCore advances Centra Platform to simplify micro-segmentation
GuardiCore announced the next innovations in its Centra Security Platform to simplify micro-segmentation deployments. The GuardiCore approach to micro-segmentation is based on these three steps, Reveal, Build and Enforce, providing customers with a way to implement micro-segmentation policy to secure their critical assets.
Accelerate adoption of modernized access management
PingID is a cloud-based service for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for organizations seeking to balance authentication with user convenience via a customizable and brandable mobile or desktop app. PingID now offers offline MFA capabilities so that organizations can continue to enforce strong authentication, even in situations where there is a loss in Internet connectivity. Whether the disruption is due to an Internet provider issue, natural disaster or other scenario, PingID helps ensure a way to authenticate via a cloud-based service.
Magicard releases Rio Pro 360 ID card printer
Magicard released its latest secure ID card printer, the Rio Pro 360, which features faster print speed, increased capacity and improved print quality. The 360 also has the all new ‘LYNK’ onboard intelligence – an embedded Linux-based CPU – that enables seamless communication and the secure processing of ID data. It can print an anti-fraud customised secure watermark on every card. LYNK now enables the secure online delivery of bespoke HoloKote watermarks to the printer. Where previously only one custom HoloKote design was available per printer, now users can store up to ten.
Cognito adds detections based on the threat intelligence and IoCs
Vectra announced the ability for its customers to integrate threat intelligence and indicator-of-compromise (IoC) feeds into its Cognito platform to further improve their threat detection coverage. In addition, the Cognito platform adds new detections for attacker reconnaissance of Active Directory involving LDAP and Kerberos protocols, and limited-time sharing links to simplify the sharing of critical information during a threat investigation.
Toshiba announces 10TB surveillance HDD
Toshiba released the MD06ACA-V HDD series, designed for 24/7 streaming operation scenarios and is typically used for surveillance digital video recorders (SDVR), surveillance network video recorders (SNVR) and Hybrid SDVR. The MD06ACA-V Series features 7,200 rpm access performance. Available in 6TB, 8TB and 10TB capacities, the new models provide a SATA 6Gbit/s interface with a 256MiB dynamic buffer.
Data protection service for cloud applications
Baffle announced the BaffleManager Application Data Protection Service on AWS Marketplace and Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace. It enables secure compute for cloud applications while delivering access control and data access monitoring. This provides a solution that enables enterprises to accelerate their adoption of public cloud services in a manner that was previously thought not possible – the back-end database layer never exposes data in the clear while at-rest or in memory, and the application does not break.
