Data protection startup BigID sets eyes on resellers with the Momentum VAR program, a first such program from the company aimed to encourage partners to add its data discovery and privacy offerings to their portfolio.

According to the company, the VAR program will help meet the need for privacy and compliance in more regulated verticals such as retail, communications, banking and insurance. As such, it should help customers deal with the growing number of privacy regulations in place around the world, such as Europe's own General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and, across the pond, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

Barracuda Networks announces Release 8 of CloudGen Firewall-- an update featuring functionality to streamline SD-WAN management, optimise cloud connectivity and automate scalable protection across multi-cloud deployments.

According to a July 2019 Gartner report, “customer demands for simplicity, scalability, flexibility, low latency and pervasive security force convergence of the WAN edge and network security markets, creating the secure access service edge (SASE), with a predominantly cloud-based, as-a-service delivery model.” CloudGen Firewall Release 8 adds a set of automation capability to streamline deployment and provide visibility and control for successful implementations.

Some of the biggest names in the industry-- including the likes of Google, IBM, Intel and Microsoft-- join the Linux Foundation to form the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), a community with a focus to advance trust and security for cloud and edge computing.

Initially the CCC has 10 members, namely Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, Google Cloud, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Red Hat, Swisscom and Tencent. Eventually it will bring together hardware vendors, cloud providers, developers, open source experts and academics to accelerate what the Linux Foundation calls confidential computing, or the processing of encrypted data without exposing it to the rest of the system, reducing exposure for sensitive data and providing greater control and transparency for users.

Collective defense and network behavioural analysis provider IronNet Cybersecurity announces the IronDome collective defense platform is available for companies of all sizes, including small and midsize companies.

As the company puts it, SMBs are just as prone as cyber attacks as its current customer base of Fortune 500 companies. In addition, collaboration with a more diverse range of companies increases threat insight sharing, improves high-order analysis at the industry level, and enhances defenses for all members of the collective.