Here are today’s top stories. Reading tech news is an important way for IT leaders and professionals, developers, designers to keep up to date. The CIO Influence Team compiles a weekly digest covering DevOps culture, emerging technology trends, open-source cloud and even a roundup of IT-related mishaps.
Dig Security Uncovers Vulnerability in GCP CloudSQL Service Exposing Provider and Customer Data, Remediates Issues
Dig, the cloud data security leader, released new threat research highlighting the discovery of a critical vulnerability in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) CloudSQL service. The vulnerability could have enabled a malicious actor to escalate from a basic CloudSQL user to a full-fledged sysadmin on a container, gaining access to internal GCP data like secrets, sensitive files, passwords, in addition to customer data.
MongoDB and Alibaba Cloud Extend Global Partnership
MongoDB, Inc. and Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, announced a four-year extension to their strategic global partnership that has seen significant growth since being announced in 2019. MongoDB provides the world’s most popular non-relational database, and through this partnership, customers can easily adopt and consume MongoDB-as-a-service—ApsaraDB for MongoDB—from Alibaba Cloud’s data centers globally.
Mphasis, Kore.ai Partner to Transform Customer and Employee Experience for Enterprises
Mphasis, an Information Technology (IT) solutions provider specializing in applied technology and business process services, announced its strategic partnership with Kore.ai, the world’s leading enterprise conversational AI platform and solutions company, to bolster its offerings to transform customer experience management and employee engagement for their enterprise clients.
Microsoft Recognizes CyberProof for Specializations in Threat Protection and Cloud Security
CyberProof, a UST company, has attained a Specialization in both Threat Protection and Cloud Security from Microsoft. A Specialization designation in a particular technology area is no small task, to attain two of them in the Security area separates UST’s CyberProof from all but a few other Microsoft partners.
Authomize Joins Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) to Expand Cross-Environmental IAM Visibility
Authomize, an Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) Platform, announced that it has b************** of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA). MISA is an ecosystem of independent software vendors and managed security service providers that have integrated their security solutions with Microsoft Security technology to better defend customers against a world of increasing threats.
