Sean Michael Kerner

AlienVault is continuing to raise new funding, as it pushes forward on its mission of expand the market for its open-source-based Unified Security Management platform. The security vendor has raised an additional $26.5 million in Series D funding this month, bringing the total funding since its founding in 2007 to $62 million. AlienVault CEO Barmak […]

Networking startup Big Switch is a pioneer in the emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) space, with its open source Floodlight controller among its key successes. The journey for Big Switch hasn’t all been a bed of roses and the company is now aiming to switch things up a bit as it re-positions for continued growth […]

Earlier this month, Cisco announced the formation of a Services Security Practice that will deliver new offerings. Bryan Palma will lead the Services Security Practice. No stranger to the security industry, Palma previously held high-level IT security roles in the U.S. Secret Service, Boeing and PepsiCo. Palma told Enterprise Networking Planet that he’s joining Cisco […]

Cisco is growing its data center portfolio in a big way with the acquisition of privately-held Whiptail. Cisco is paying approximately $415 million for Whiptail in a deal that is expected to close in the first quarter of fiscal 2014, which ends next month. After the deal closes, Whiptail staff will be rolled into Cisco’s […]

As Google ramps up its data-encryption efforts, now is a good time for enterprises to consider their own data-protection postures. Revelations made public last week about alleged National Security Agency (NSA) capabilities for defeating Internet cryptography are having a ripple effect, causing companies big and small to re-evaluate their use of cryptography. One of those […]

Microsoft fixes 47 different security issues in its September Patch Tuesday update affecting multiple products, including Outlook, SharePoint and Internet Explorer. Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday update, provided 13 security bulletins, four of which are rated critical. Overall, the update patches 47 different vulnerabilities across the 13 advisories, spanning multiple Microsoft products, including Windows, Office, SharePoint […]

End-user experience with cloud computing services varies widely over time and over different geographies. Cedexis Radar aims to make sense of it all. The cloud is an amorphous technological construct with varying degrees of performance and availability, depending on the location and the network of the end user. That’s where the Cedexis Radar cloud app […]

The truth is that the NSA doesn’t really need any crazy tools to actually hack SSL, since in the majority of cases today, SSL is not properly deployed anyway. According to the latest stats from SSL Pulse, just under 25 percent of SSL sites are actually secure. That’s right—most enterprises and Websites are not properly […]

VIDEO: CIO of Linux vendor Red Hat explains how he brings technologies into the organization and how BYOD policy plays out. Every organization today faces a similar set of challenges about implementing bring-your-own-device (BYOD) practices, secure access measures and new technology deployment. When you’re the CIO of a technology vendor, those challenges are magnified, as […]

Hewlett-Packard takes aim at helping enterprises comply with government regulations like the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Meeting government compliance regulations is often a complex task—one that Hewlett-Packard wants to help enterprises achieve. That’s where HP’s Data Privacy Services come into play as a new suite of services that are intended to […]

A new version of the open-source PostgreSQL database is now available, providing improved reliability and data management features. PostgreSQL is a widely deployed open-source database with roots that go back to 1985 and the UC Berkeley Postgres database project. One of the key new features in PostgreSQL 9.3 is a capability known as Streaming-Only […]

There is always a lot of talk about the word “open” in tech circles, especially when it comes to the cloud. After all, no one wants to be locked in and shackled to a “closed” system, right? I’ve sat on a number of panels in recent years talking about the open cloud, and one question […]