التكنولوجيا وأخبارها بوابة الإمارات لتكنولوجيا المعلومات والإتصالات
Octarine acquisition will bring intrinsic security to containerized applications running in Kubernetes and build
security capabilities into the fabric of the existing IT and
DevOps ecosystems
Newly created Next-Gen Security Operations Center (SOC)
Alliance features industry-leading SIEM/SOAR vendors
Splunk, IBM Security, Google Cloud’s Chronicle, Exabeam,
and Sumo Logic
PALO ALTO, Calif. and DUDAI, UAE. VMware, Inc. (NYSE:
VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, made
two key announcements during Connect 2020, the
company’s annual cybersecurity user and partner
conference (hosted virtually by VMware Carbon Black):
The intent to acquire Octarine, whose innovative security
platform for Kubernetes applications helps simplify
DevSecOps and enables cloud native environments to be
intrinsically secure, from development through runtime.
The creation of a Next-Gen SOC Alliance along with Splunk,
IBM Security, Google Cloud’s Chronicle, Exabeam, and
Sumo Logic. The alliance empowers SOC teams with
visibility, prevention, detection and response capabilities
that can uniquely leverage the VMware fabric.
Intent to Acquire Octarine to Bring Intrinsic Security to
Containers & Kubernetes
Protecting workloads is critical to the security of
applications and data inside every organization. The unique
properties of the cloud (speed, agility, scale) mean that
developers are increasingly using Kubernetes and
containers to modernize applications and changing the
nature of workloads that need to be secured.
As with any major technology adoption, attackers are not
far behind, looking to take advantage of new risk areas.
Building Octarine’s innovative Kubernetes security platform
into the VMware security portfolio presents a major
opportunity for VMware to further mitigate risks in several ways:
Provide full visibility into cloud-native environments so
customers can better identify and reduce the risks posed by
vulnerabilities and attacks.
Move beyond static analysis and maintain compliance –
customers can create and enforce content-based policies to
protect the privacy and integrity of sensitive and regulated information.
Integrate into the developer lifecycle to analyze and control
application risks before they are deployed into production.
Run alongside service mesh frameworks such as Tanzu
Service Mesh to provide native anomaly detection and
threat monitoring for cloud and container-based workloads.
Provide runtime monitoring and control of Kubernetes
workloads across hybrid environments for threat detection
and response.
Following the acquisition’s close, the Octarine technology
will be embedded into the VMware Carbon Black Cloud,
providing new support of security features for
containerized applications running in Kubernetes and
enable security capabilities as part of the fabric of the
existing IT and DevOps ecosystems. This innovation will
further reduce the need for additional sensors in the stack.
Octarine capabilities will also integrate and leverage the
VMware Tanzu platform, including current investments in
Service Mesh and Open Policy Agent.
“Acquiring Octarine will enable us to further expand
VMware’s intrinsic security strategy to containers and
Kubernetes environments by embedding the Octarine
technology into the VMware Carbon Black Cloud,” said
Patrick Morley, general manager and senior vice president,
Security Business Unit, VMware. “This, combined with
native integrations with Tanzu, vSphere, NSX and VMware
Cloud Foundation, will create what we believe is a unique
and compelling solution for intrinsically securing
workloads. And, with the addition of our AppDefense
capabilities merged into the platform, we can
fundamentally transform how workloads are better secured.”
VMware’s intrinsic security strategy is centered on
enriching context from across the security portfolio and
leveraging the VMware fabric for native telemetry and
control at the endpoint, workload, network, user access
point, and application. This innovation enables a true XDR
solution that works out of the box with existing VMware
solutions – reducing all the bolt-on sensors and appliances that plague security.
For more information on Octarine, click here.
VMware Launches Next-Gen SOC Alliance
In an effort to empower modern SOC teams with the
capabilities and context they need to greatly improve both
their efficiency and efficacy, VMware has launched a Next-Gen SOC Alliance.
The alliance features Splunk, IBM Security, Google Cloud’s
Chronicle, Exabeam, and Sumo Logic integrations with the
VMware Carbon Black Cloud to deliver key XDR capabilities
and context into SIEM technologies that power the
modern-day SOC. Equally important, the combined
solutions will be able to take advantage of VMware’s
Intrinsic Security framework and enable SOC teams to:
Leverage the VMware fabric – doing away with many of
agents and appliances SOCs would normally deploy for
visibility, prevention, detection, and response.
Gain far richer context about the infrastructure and
applications being protected.
Operationalize more of security with (and through) IT via
Carbon Black integrations with VMware management consoles.
Other key benefits from the Next-Gen SOC Alliance include:
Centralized security context, which enables organizations
to detect, analyze and respond to data in a unified SIEM at
machine speed.
Automation and orchestration tools that combine with XDR
capabilities to allow SOCs to scale and standardize their
investigation and response processes.
Actionable answers to large-scale queries and remote
remediation from within Splunk, IBM Security, Google
Cloud’s Chronicle, Exabeam, and Sumo Logic platforms.
“The Next-Gen SOC Alliance brings a critical mass of XDR
context and capabilities to SOCs in a fully intrinsic way –
one that can uniquely leverage the VMware fabric,” said
Tom Barsi, Vice President of Alliances for VMware Carbon
Black. “In partnership with the industry’s leading
SIEM/SOAR players, we’re setting a strong vision for the
modern SOC and delivering unprecedented visibility and
remediation capabilities across endpoints, networks,
workloads, and containers.”
“Splunk’s Security Operations Suite acts as the backbone
for some of the most advanced SOCs in the world,” said
Haiyan Song, Senior Vice President and General Manager of
Security Markets, Splunk. “As the security industry
continues to embrace data at the center of their security
strategy, it’s more important than ever to combine the
power of Splunk’s industry-leading SIEM and SOAR
solutions with XDR to fight back against increasingly
sophisticated cyber actors. We are pleased to bring Splunk
Enterprise Security and Splunk Phantom to this alliance
with VMware Carbon Black and look forward to helping our
mutual customers around the world solve their toughest
security challenges with data.”
