Security

As the largest telecommunications company in the nation’s largest state, GCI Communications Corp. faces some unusual challenges serving Alaska’s diverse population. There are the geographic challenges: Rugged, mountainous terrain; extreme, sub-zero weather; island communities; and vast distances between towns and villages. Then there are the bears: Black bears, brown bears, polar bears—posing a challenge to […]

New Capabilities Enable Self-Service Load Balancing, Expand Container Ingress Use Cases, Enhance Mobile/5G Support, and Automate Conversion from Legacy Load Balancers to Avi Avi Load Balancer is the industry’s first software-defined load balancer (LB) for hybrid clouds that delivers a distributed architecture with built-in automation and deep application visibility. Avi’s pioneering innovations have enabled IT […]

We caught up with Giovanni Vigna, Senior Director of Threat Intelligence at VMware’s Networking and Security BU, who has been in the United States for twenty years, during his recent trip to the VMware Italy offices. In addition to his role at VMware, Vigna is the Director of the NSF AI Institute for Agent-based Cyber […]

Every technology can be used for good or evil – and that goes extra for generative AI technologies like ChatGPT. AI luminaries including Sam Altman, the chief executive officer of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, recently signed a letter1 warning that AI should be treated as seriously as pandemic or nuclear war as a potential cause of […]

Technology has been driving human-kind forward for decades. New and improved technologies breed new and improved technologies and so on. And at the heart of this relentless march forwards is the cloud. It is the enabler driving this constant evolution because it is critical to storing, managing and distributing the data from which change is […]

Modern research often depends on access to vast amounts of computing, storage and networking power. How that sensitive data is managed is critical. Using a multi-cloud platform from VMware, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has given itself the means to make smarter cloud choices—and strengthen data sovereignty.

Thanks to the combined benefits of VMware and AWS technologies, we are now able to recover from an outage in less than four hours! This is a real breakthrough that allows us to look forward to the future with confidence, whether it concerns the work of our employees or the satisfaction of our customers. Indeed, […]

Founded in 1968, NatWest Group is a British banking and insurance holding company. It operates several high-street personal and business banking brands, along with private banking, investment banking, insurance and corporate finance services. Today, it has more than 59,000 employees and, in 2021, generated revenue of GBP £10.51 billion. With a large and geographically diverse […]

Founded in Milan, Italy in 1994, EMERGENCY NGO Onlus offers free, high-quality healthcare to victims of war, poverty and landmines. To date, the humanitarian organization has treated over 12 million patients, and currently operates in Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Italy, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Uganda, along with centers in Moldova assisting those fleeing the war in […]

Tom Gillis explores how CISOs should invest on detecting and stopping lateral movement of threats on private and public clouds. 

There has been a fundamental restructuring of cybercrime cartels thanks to a booming dark web economy of scale. Powerful cybercriminal groups now operate like multinational corporations and are relied upon by traditional crime syndicates to carry out illegal activities such as extortion and money laundering. Cybercrime cartels are more organized than ever before and enjoy […]

Last week, I attended the White House Open Source Software Security Summit, along with VMware’s Chief Security Officer, Alex Tosheff, and Michael Kennedy, our VP of Global Government Relations and Public Policy. Led by Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger, the summit was attended by both private industry leaders and […]