Michael Vizard

Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.

Enso Security today previewed an application security posture management (ASPM) platform that makes it easier for cybersecurity teams to discover applications, identify owners and detect changes. Fresh off raising $6 million in funding, Enso Security CEO Roy Erlich said the Enso platform advances DevSecOps by providing a frictionless approach that ... Read More

F5 Networks this week announced the integration of F5 Essential App Protect, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for protecting web applications, and Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network (CDN) service from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Christine Puccio, vice president of global cloud alliances and go-to-market programs for F5 Networks, said this ... Read More

Cloudflare has launched a wave of platforms and updates to the networking services it provides as part of accelerating the shift toward zero-trust IT environments using a virtual private network (VPN) based on a Wireguard protocol that is optimized for data encryption. The implementation of that VPN by Cloudguard is ... Read More

HashiCorp, at its HashiConf Digital conference today, announced an open source Boundary project that will enable users to remotely access systems regardless of location based on their specific identity. At the same time, HashiCorp announced the private beta of HashiCorp Vault secrets management platform on the HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) ... Read More

IBM Security today announced it is adding data security capabilities to IBM Cloud Pak for Security for the first time. Built on top of the Red Hat OpenShift platform, IBM Cloud Pak for Security is an integrated suite of threat management tools and processes that includes a security information and ... Read More

Orca Security, a provider of security scanning tools, disclosed today that it has found 401,571 vulnerabilities on 2,218 virtual appliance images from 540 software vendors. Company CEO Avi Shua said virtual appliances are essentially black boxes that IT organizations assume are being patched regularly by the IT vendors that created ... Read More

DH2i has launched DxOdyssey for IoT, an instance of its software-defined perimeter (SDP) and smart availability software encapsulated in a lightweight container to enable it to run on internet of things (IoT) devices. Company CEO Don Boxley said DxOdyssey was developed originally to enable IT teams to programmatically deploy a ... Read More

Ivanti this week announced it has entered into a pair of agreements to acquire MobileIron and Pulse Secure as part of an effort to create a zero-trust platform that can be delivered as a service. Nayaki Nayyar, chief product officer for Ivanti, said at a time when network perimeters are ... Read More

Zscaler has extended the reach of its security service to now include protection capabilities add cloud browser isolation along with cloud security posture management (CSPM) for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and a cloud access security broker (CASB). Company CTO Amit Sinha said these offerings extend the reach of a Zscaler Zero ... Read More

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) this week published a free report intended to make it easier for cybersecurity teams to recognize and thwart the most 11 egregious threats to cloud computing environments. John Yeoh, global vice president of research for the CSA, said the “Top Threats to Cloud Computing: Egregious ... Read More