News in the Channel - issue #7

NEWS

Mobile Pixels provides flexible and mobile solutions for individuals and businesses, enabling users to extend their screen real estate, increase productivity and work from anywhere. “We are thrilled to partner with CMS Distribution to bring our innovative portable monitor solutions to European customers,” said Jack Yao, CEO of Mobile Pixels. “This partnership will enable us to reach a wider customer base and expand our global footprint, and we look forward to working

closely with CMS Distribution to deliver the best possible experience for our customers.” Jonpaul Warren, gaming sales manager of CMS Distribution, added: “As remote and hybrid work models become more prevalent, the demand for portable and flexible monitor solutions has increased significantly. We believe that the addition of Mobile Pixels’ range to our portfolio will offer customers the flexibility they need to work from anywhere, anytime.”

Jack Yao CEO

mobilepixels.us

Nebulon launches new threat detection service

Data centre cyber-resilience solutions provider Nebulon, Inc has launched TripLine, a new threat detection service designed to alert customers when a cryptographic ransomware attack has been detected, as well as the precise location and point-in-time the attack occurred. Nebulon has also launched smartDefense, a cybersecurity solution that narrows threat vectors, detects ransomware attacks and accelerates recovery. TripLine is the first combined server-storage threat detection solution for cryptographic ransomware. The new smartInfrastructure service can identify attacks on application data as well as the operating system and application software. TripLine is enabled within two parts of the Nebulon solution: the Nebulon Secure Enclave, an isolated infrastructure domain that includes all server lights-out management, data services, boot and data volumes, and attached SSDs; and the Nebulon ON cloud control plane. Machine learning (ML) runs in the Secure Enclave and identifies encrypted versus unencrypted blocks in real time. Every 30 seconds, these results are sent to the Nebulon ON cloud, which uses a combination of ML and statistical models to compare that data to the historical average of encrypted blocks for a given volume. A spike in encrypted blocks will generate an alert within a few minutes of the first suspicious result. Hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI), which provides no isolation between infrastructure services and application services, is particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks. When the HCI operating system becomes infected, data services become unavailable and the disks that store snapshots protecting application data become compromised,

making fast recovery impossible. This leaves enterprises with no choice but to re-install and reconfigure operating systems and clustering software, then recover application data from backup servers which also likely have been compromised – a process that can take days or even weeks. Unlike HCI, TripLine enables performant ransomware detection and recovery of the entire physical infrastructure without resorting to re-installation or backups. Combined with Nebulon ON, enterprises can benefit from push-button, API-accessible recovery of all affected volumes using TimeJump, Nebulon’s four-minute ransomware recovery service. Meanwhile, smartDefense is intended to complement what organisations have in place for their cybersecurity framework, adding a solution for the deep server- storage application infrastructure. smartDefense protection relies on Nebulon ImmutableBoot, which maintains a known good version of the operating system and application stack within the Secure Enclave of every server. With every reboot, the server reverts to this trusted software instance, eliminating errant firmware updates or dormant malware in the process. smartDefense detection and recovery capabilities leverage Nebulon TripLine and Nebulon TimeJump. TimeJump can rapidly recover operating systems, application configurations and data, reducing recovery time from days to less than four minutes for multiple clusters simultaneously. With the addition of TripLine to the smartDefense solution, customers can precisely identify the point of attack within their infrastructure and revert to a secure state using TimeJump, resulting in a significant reduction in overall threat response and recovery time.

Siamak Nazari CEO, Nebulon

nebulon.com

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