In 2021, relying on outdated technology to handle new and often extreme cybersecurity threats in a shifting landscape isn’t a comprehensive or viable strategy. With relentless and mounting cyberattacks part of daily reality, cutting-edge protection against them has never been needed more to maintain infrastructure safety, privacy, and maintain functioning supply chains.
In this episode of The View With Vizard, NanoVM CEO Ian Eyberg explains why the time to employ unikernels to make IT more secure has arrived. The video is below, followed by a transcript of the conversation.
In case you missed it, some of the latest malware is targeting container technology including the very popular Kubernetes. Considering the large number of healthcare vendors, this is an important topic to learn more about.
During my early years working Unix security at Bell Labs in the mid-1980’s, I remember following (and envying) some amazing research going on at CMU.
We recently conducted a survey of industry experts on the root causes of cyber risk exposure. The consensus is security flaws are often built into the systems that require protection.
DevOps tooling seems to be in a never-ending state of self-transformation. The continuing evolution of infrastructure and the tools that go with it are forever creating new ecosystems. On the infrastructure side, we saw VMWare, Citrix and other companies bring to market massive virtualization in the late ’90s and early ’00s.
I was asked recently to write a containers-versus-unikernels article, and I said, "Sure, but it won’t be the article you think it is because I share Per Buer’s sentiment that unikernels are not simply containers 2.0."
NanoVMs, the industry leader in unikernel technology development and deployment, announces the first unikernel tool for developers that loads any Linux application as a unikernel. The tool, called "Ops" is simple to use, requires no complex coding or configuration and only requires a simple command to execute.
Open-source virtual machine developers NanoVMs launched its tool for running any Linux application as a unikernel, called 'Ops,' today.
Edge compute is springing up in the industrial and manufacturing sector at a fast clip - after all what company doesn’t want to increase its business efficiency or quicken its agility? Everything from managing control over process in real-time to doing quality inspections with AI-based systems, also in real-time, need to compute at the edge - not in the cloud.
This breach happened because the underlying operating systems are completely broken.
Edge compute sacrifices security for efficiency when software applications run Linux, Windows but these problems are solved with unikernels.
As details emerged about the latest "massive data breach" — this time at the Marriott International hotel chain — database experts and security technology executives speculated on how it could have been avoided and reflected on what needs to change to prevent similar data security lapses.
Whether it’s adopting cook and hold ovens that reduce energy costs or adopting food safety management systems like Navitas, newer technology is being introduced to help restaurants run more efficiently and of course produce more revenue.
As if e-commerce companies didn't have enough problems with transacting securely and defending against things like fraud, another avalanche of security problems -- like cryptojacking, the act of illegally mining cryptocurrency on your end servers -- has begun.
Not only are unikernels cheaper for businesses but due to their small size, companies can deploy even more of them.
The days of massive, vendor-independent enterprise technology conferences like Comdex are long gone. Today, all the action is at the big vendor shows, like Dell Technologies World, IBM Think, CA World, and last week’s VMworld, to name a few.
NanoVMs makes software to help you create and deploy unikernels. In this briefing, Ian discussed with me the state of the unikernel ecosystem and how NanoVMs fits into things.
As more data is collected for machine learning models, more care must be taken with how data is stored, processed and accessed.
When you apply for life insurance, you have to disclose whether or not you smoke and have dangerous hobbies like skydiving. If you do, you’re at higher risk for premature death. (But, please, by all means, enjoy!) However, if you want to live longer, you’re better off avoiding high risk activities.
If you had trouble last fall checking your elected officials’ claims on Politifact or streaming Homeland on Showtime Anytime, blame the cryptocurrency bubble. Hackers are suddenly breaking into companies’ systems and websites to steal their computing power and “mine” virtual currencies – slowing down all those computers’ day jobs.
Computer disasters like crashes and breaches aren't a business owner's only worries nowadays. The latest threat is cryptojacking. Read on to learn how it could affect your company.
Cryptojacking is becoming all the rage in the cybercrime world recently. Unlike ransomware, criminals do not need to wait to get paid. As soon as their code hits your servers they start generating cash. That cold hard cash made up of 1s and 0s.
FastBooking, a Paris-based company that sells hotel booking software, was robbed of customers’ personal information and credit card data. The company sent out emails last week warning those affected among its 4,000 customers in 100 countries.
Data breaches are unfortunately becoming more and more common as the never-ending march toward digital transformation carries on while picking up pace. No other sector is as directly impacted by breaches than health care as medical records are considered an order of magnitude more valuable than even credit cards.
We’ve all probably heard of containers and virtual machines by now. Virtualization enabled IT to break down a single server into multiple machines. Containers allowed you take that concept and make it even smaller. DeferPanic wants to take another step with a technology called Unikernels. Today, the company announced its $1.5 million seed round.
The drive to minimize app hosting resources yielded unikernels and containers, the IT equivalent of a tiny house and apartment. Containing only the barest essentials, unikernels pose unique benefits and challenges.
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What's the deal with unikernels?! We had Ian Eyberg of Defer Panic join us to talk about what a unikernel is, why it's an important part of the overall IT strategy, and when you should or should not use them. A great end-to-end discussion that will also open your eyes to new ways of doing some interesting things!
There can be no doubt that the golden age of unikernels is fast approaching. Initially, developers thought that using unikernels in production was something that was still five years away, but companies are already beginning to use them in production today.
Right now containers are all the rage. The money piling into the container ecosystem is massive. Uncle Scrooge would drown inside the vault — and ducks are good swimmers.
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