Sean Michael Kerner

The idea behind Ionic Security was initially triggered by the company founder’s frustration in trying to keep his social media settings private and secure. “About four years ago, I created a little project called Social Fortress,” Adam Ghetti, founder and CTO of Ionic Security, told eWEEK. “That project came into existence because [Facebook CEO] Mark […]

Helping to lead Big Switch from day one, through to the modern evolution of SDN is the company’s co-founder Kyle Forster. In a video interview with Enterprise Networking Planet, Forster explains how both his company and its SDN message have evolved. While SDN in the early days was mostly hype, Forster said that today it […]

The big shift in the upcoming OpenShift 3 milestone is all about refocusing the PaaS around Docker. What OpenShift 3 really represents is what has been happening in the open-source space and Linux containers, driven by Docker and other projects, including Kubernetes and Atomic, that have sprung up around it,” Joe Fernandes, Red Hat director […]

In 2014, IBM was issued 7,534 U.S. patents, dramatically outpacing every other technology vendor. In second place for 2014 U.S patents was Samsung, with 4,952 patents, followed in the number three spot by Canon with 4,055 patents. According to IBM, its 2014 patent haul is greater than the combined total of Accenture, Amazon, Google, HP, […]

Although changes in the market are likely in the year ahead, Art Gilliland, senior vice president and general manager of Enterprise Security Products at HP, noted that many of the attacks in recent months have stayed consistent and the Sony attack is an example of issues that have been talked about for a while. One […]

For the last decade, every Microsoft Patch Tuesday was preceded by a Microsoft Advance Notification Service (ANS) update. In an unexpected move, Microsoft announced on Jan. 8 that it is ending the free general public availability of ANS, which will only be available to Microsoft premier customers and members of its security programs. ANS provided […]

The third quarter State of the Internet (SOTI) report from Akamai is now out, once again showing Internet adoption growth. During the third quarter, Akamai reported that the global average connection was 4.5 Mbps, a 25 percent year over year gain but a 2.8 percent decline from the second quarter figures. The average peak connection […]

The new Mirantis OpenStack 6.0 platform is the first from Mirantis to be based on the OpenStack Juno upstream milestone that first debuted on October 16. A key part of Mirantis’ value-add in its OpenStack product is the inclusion of Fuel tools to help organizations deploy and manage OpenStack clouds at scale. With Mirantis OpenStack […]

The race to the cloud is continuing to accelerate, with more cloud apps than ever now being used by enterprises, according to the January 2015 Netskope Cloud Report. According to Netskope, 88 percent of apps that are already being used by the enterprise are not actually enterprise-ready. Beri explained that at a very basic level, […]

Jeff Forristal has been busy the last few years discovering and reporting Android vulnerabilities. Forristal, CTO of mobile security vendor Bluebox Security, revealed the Android Master Key vulnerability at the Black Hack 2013 conference and the FakeID vulnerability in 2014. The big challenge, is around the length of time a vendor will support a given […]

The use of a document macro to deliver malware is an old idea in computer security that has seen a revival in the last year. Back in 1999 and 2000, macro viruses, including the ILOVEYOU and Melissa viruses, infected millions of users. Microsoft took steps in 2007 to limit the ability of macros in Microsoft […]

The AllSeen Alliance is a multi-stakeholder effort that is operated as a Linux Foundation Collaboration project. The Linux Foundation first announced the AllSeen Alliance effort in December 2013, with the AllJoyn code contribution from Qualcomm serving as the basis. AllJoyn is a framework for enabling secure and seamless connectivity, as well as access, for IoT […]