Open-Source Projects of the Week

ITOpsTimes names SaltStack open source projects Heist, Umbra, and Idem open source projects of the week.

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2020 Tech Ascension Award

SaltStack SecOps named Best SecOps Security Solution in 2020 by Tech Ascension Awards

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Part 1: The Secret to Winning IT Security Roulette

True infrastructure security starts with security and ends with IT operations, but what is the secret to winning IT security roulette?

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Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life

We should assume attackers will go after businesses running Windows 7 when the next vulnerability strikes.

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Microsoft Stops Supporting Windows 7, Leaving Millions of Users at Risk of Cyberattacks

SaltStack director of product, Mehul Revankar, explains what the end of Windows 7 support means for cyber hygiene and security posture.

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One Planet Award

SaltStack Comply wins a One Planet 2019 Award in the category of “Security Software” for automating continuous compliance and security operations.

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Cybersecurity takes the stage

The vast majority of security breaches exploit known infrastructure vulnerabilities.

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How Does an Innovative Automation Solution Boost IT Security?

Learn how SaltStack Protect helps enforce real IT infrastructure security.

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2020 SC Awards Trust Awards Finalist

SaltStack is a 2020 SC Awards Trust Awards Finalist in the category of “Best Risk / Policy Management Solution”

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2020 SC Awards Excellence Awards Finalist

SaltStack is a 2020 SC Awards Excellence Awards Finalist in the category of “Best Enterprise Security Solution”

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How SREs and Automation Can Save Your Security Infrastructure

The New Stack interviews Thomas Hatch, SaltStack CTO, and Mark Sunday, Oracle CIO emeritus.

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New Intelligent Automation Product Enhancing Security Compliance

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Making Complex Software Fun And Flexible With Plugin Oriented Programming

Listen to episode 240 of Podcast.__init__, an interview with Thomas Hatch, SaltStack CTO.

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Interview with Thomas Hatch, CTO and Co-Founder at SaltStack

Tom answers questions about whether AI-enabled automation can successfully fill gaps in IT and network operations?

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ITOps Times news digest: SaltStack SecOps

SaltStack announced new products joining its SaltStack SecOps family.

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Introducing SaltStack Protect, a new SecOps solution for automated discovery and remediation of security vulnerabilities

On Tuesday, SaltStack, the creators of intelligent automation for IT operations and security teams, announced the general availability of SaltStack Protect.

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SaltStack Enterprise 6.1 Helps to Remove Security Neglect

Many organizations are experiencing the burden of vulnerability-detection fatigue…

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New SaltStack SecOps Products Automate Vulnerability Remediation and Continuous Security Compliance

SaltStack announced the general availability of SaltStack Protect for automated discovery and remediation of security vulnerabilities across web-scale infrastructure.

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SaltStack adds automatic vulnerability remediation tool to portfolio

SaltStack Protect is meant to make the “massive amount of coordination and work required to actually fix thousands of infrastructure security vulnerabilities” less daunting.

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Bedside Hotel Robot Hacked to Stream In-Room Video

Thomas Hatch, SaltStack CTO, comments the general inability for device manufacturers to properly maintain the security of digital infrastructure at scale.

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Bedside Robots May Have Been Used to Spy on Hotel Guests in Japan

Thomas Hatch, SaltStack CTO, comments on a general lack of cyber security hygiene and the damage it is doing to consumer trust in technology.

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Cyber Defense Magazine Global Award Winner 2019

SaltStack wins “Editor’s Choice” in the category of “Infosec Startup of the Year.”

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Cyber Defense Magazine Global Award Winner 2019

SaltStack wins “Most Innovative” in the category of “Compliance.”

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Cyber Defense Magazine Global Award Winner 2019

SaltStack wins “Most Innovative” in the category of “Patch and Configuration Management.”

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Cyber Defense Magazine Global Award Winner 2019

SaltStack wins “Most Innovative” in the category of “Vulnerability Assessment, Remediation, and Management.”

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New Cryptojacking Worm Found in Docker Containers

Graboid uses one of the oldest attack vector tricks in the book, says Thomas Hatch, SaltStack CTO.

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Samsung’s Support for Linux on DeX Fizzles

Will the year of the Linux desktop never arrive? Thomas Hatch, SaltStack CTO, comments on the latest.

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Graboid is The First-Ever Worm to be Found Hiding in Docker Hub Images

Thomas Hatch, SaltStack CTO, comments on the potential security risks introduced by containers.

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‘Serious’ Linux Sudo Bug’s Damage Potential Actually May Be Small

Mehul Revankar, SaltStack director of product, provides practical advice for security operations teams concerned about the Lunux Sudo bug.

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Security, business agility kindle network automation adoption

SaltStack event-driven automation leveraged by 50% of survey respondents for network control.

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How to answer 7 top DevOps interview questions

Thomas Hatch, SaltStack CTO, and Phil Kalm, SaltStack senior DevOps engineer, share tips on how to ace your next DevOps engineer interview.

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Devs Engage in Soul-Searching on Future of Open Source

Gareth Greenaway, SaltStack senior software engineer, comments on the open source maintainer balancing act.

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CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award Winner 2019

SaltStack SecOps wins the CyberSecurity Breakthrough Award in the category of vulnerability management.

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Technology Is Not Enough, Communication Is Key

An interview with Thomas Hatch, SaltStack CTO and technical founder.

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Golden Bridge Awards Gold Award Winner 2019

SaltStack wins Gold in the 2019 Golden Bridge Awards category of, “Startup of the Year – Cyber Security Services.”

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Metasploit Project publishes exploit for Bluekeep bug

“For months, we’ve followed the speculation that BlueKeep would become wormable as soon as public exploits became available,” said Thomas Hatch, CTO at SaltStack. “Metasploit is the exploit module we feared and the BlueKeep vulnerability is very real.”

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Forrester Wave: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q3 2019

SaltStack is recognized in the Forrester Wave: Infrastructure Automation Platforms, Q3 2019

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Gartner Hype Cycle Shortlisted Vendor

SaltStack has been shortlisted in seven Gartner Hype Cycle 2019 reports for Infrastructure & Operations Automation, Enterprise Networking, Cloud Security, and DevOps. These reports are available through your company’s Gartner research subscription.

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Cyber Defense Black Unicorn Award

SaltStack SecOps has been recognized as a 2019 Cyber Defense Black Unicorn Award Finalist.

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Softshell Vendor Award

SaltStack is recognized in the Softshell Vendor Report for security vendors operating and showing potential in the DACH region.

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The Best Tech Startups In Lehi

SaltStack is named by The Tech Tribune as one of the ten best tech startups in Utah.

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2019 Stevie Award People’s Choice Winner

SaltStack SecOps is voted the 2019 Stevie Award People’s Choice Winner in the category of Endpoint Security Management Solution.

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2019 Stevie Award Winner

SaltStack SecOps wins 2019 Silver Stevie Award in the category of Endpoint Security Management Solution.

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Utah’s Emerging Startups Envision Its Tech Future

SaltStack named a “Rising Utah-Based Startup”

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Top 100 GitHub Projects in 2019

The team at U Today ran thousands of GitHub projects through a reputation algorithm to determine the network value of each. The Salt project made the top 50.

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CSO Magazine Hottest New Products at RSA 2019

SaltStack SecOps is named one of the hottest new products to launch at RSA Conference 2019 by CSO Magazine.

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Live From RSA: Coolest Things to See on the Expo Floor

After walking the RSA Conference 2019 expo floor for more than an hour and checking out approximately 300 booths, this blogger for Security Boulevard selected the five coolest things he saw. SaltStack SecOps was one of them.

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SaltStack for Event-Based IT Orchestration Across the Hybrid Cloud

Many IT operations teams turn to SaltStack for help in configuration management, but this is only a subset of the software’s capabilities…

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InformationWeek 2019 Vendors to Watch

SaltStack is named an InformationWeek 2019 Vendor to Watch in the category of DevOps

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Women Tech Council Award Winner

Jacque White, SaltStack SVP of global sales, is named 2018 Women Tech Council Award winner.

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The 10 Hottest DevOps Startups Of 2018

SaltStack named a CRN Hot DevOps Startup of 2018

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InfoWorld Comparative Review

SaltStack Enterprise receives 4.5 out of 5 stars for IT automation and orchestration

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Best of VMworld 2014

SaltStack was recognized as the Best of VMworld 2014 in the category of virtualization management.

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GigaOm Structure Launchpad winner

SaltStack won the 2013 GigaOm Structure Launchpad competition.

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Gartner Cool Vendor in DevOps

SaltStack was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in DevOps in 2013.

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