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DAILY VIDEO: Salesforce updates Commerce Cloud with AI-powered recommendations, and researchers reveal a Play With Docker security vulnerability.

Oracle releases its first Critical Patch Update of 2019, with vulnerabilities in Fusion Middleware leading the way.

TREND ANALYSIS: The risks to your organization are constantly changing, the level of threat is growing and you need to make sure your approach to security can keep up. A layered approach is most often the right way to go.

eWEEK DATA POINTS: Many of today’s ADC solutions are based on architecture designed 20 years ago and now lack agility, flexibility and customizability. But now companies across industries (and especially in e-commerce, banking, health and technology) require…

VIDEO: Craig McLuckie, co-founder of Heptio and Paul Fazzone SVP of Cloud-Native Apps at VMware discuss the future of Kubernetes.

PRODUCT ANALYSIS: The ProtectWise Grid is a cloud-delivered network detection and response (NDR) platform that unifies network detection, full-packet forensics and integrated response in an on-demand platform for any environment—enterprise, cloud or…

IT BUSINESS ANALYSIS: A strategic initiative that Dell calls the “compute continuum” emphasizes OEM solutions that can be effectively deployed, managed and supported from the edge of the network to on-premises data centers to the cloud, regardless of…

The startup officially launches its platform in an effort to help organizations better secure data across multicloud deployments.

A new version of Coverity Static Application Security Testing provides broader testing capabilities to help organizations find vulnerabilities in code.

DAILY VIDEO: Trustwave improves Secure Email Gateway to reduce email threats, and why Hyatt is launching a public bug bounty program.

eWEEK DATA POINTS: To better serve new and existing customers, many enterprises are turning to technologies such as voice assistants to improve their customer care capabilities. Voice UI has grown alongside that of digital assistants such as Siri, Google,…

eWEEK IT SCIENCE: Revulytics Usage Intelligence data has made it much easier to understand the file types and manipulations customers actually use within Extensis font and image software.

The first major milestone update to the open-source Metasploit Framework since 2011 is now available, making it easier for security researchers to test cyber-security defenses against exploits.

DAILY VIDEO: CES 2019: Rometty details the value of "IBM underneath," and FireEye updates its server email security platform for advanced threats.

Researchers from CyberArk discovered a way to hack the popular Play-with-Docker training site, escaping the confines of the container isolation boundary, revealing misconfigurations that have now been fixed.

NEW IN THE CLOUD: The latest update to the Salesforce Commerce Cloud includes a number of features designed to make it easier for consumers to find products and easier for the companies that sell them to manage everything.

PRODUCT ANALYSIS: Ping’s Intelligent Identity Platform provides customers, employees and partners with intelligent access to cloud, mobile, SaaS and on-premises applications and APIs, while also managing identity and profile data at scale.

TREND ANALYSIS: Major data breaches made headlines, advanced data analytics gained wider adoption, new applications for AI emerged and blockchain continued to disrupt. More of the same--only with increased data stores--is expected in 2019.

SECURITY ANALYSIS: While the term “quantum proof” in regard to encryption has been bandied about for years, the reality is that you need more than that; you also need really secure key distribution.

A new report from the Cloud Security Alliance examines how organizations are moving business-critical ERP applications to the cloud and potentially exposing themselves to new risks.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Federal cyber-security workers are either working without pay or are furloughed, the new cyber-security agency is stalled, contractors are laid off and critical functions aren’t getting done.

Red Hat brings nested workflow capabilities to Ansible Tower, enabling more complex IT operations automation.

DAILY VIDEO: MicroStrategy streamlines analytics with "Zero Clicks" UI, and IBM unveils the latest system in its quantum computing lineup.

eWEEK DATA POINTS: Industry leaders at Delphix, Electric Cloud, IBM, JFrog, Pivotal, XebiaLabs and Datical identify the primary areas on which organizations should focus in 2019 to continue improving software delivery outcomes.

SEA Wire and Cable spent three years trying to use its existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform to handle its warehouse operations, which should have worked well in theory, but in practice, the ERP wasn’t able to handle the level of granularity…

eWEEK DATA POINTS: As the roles of business and technology units continue to blur, IT budgets appear positioned to soar. But successful outcomes amount to more than simply boosted spend–the required talent will need to be in place, and CIOs and other tech…

eWEEK DATA POINTS: DNS (domain name system) can be an attractive target for attackers. Like the security of any other business-critical service, enterprises should take steps to secure the availability and integrity of their DNS deployments.

Trustwave adds support for Microsoft Azure Rights Management Service (RMS) as part of the Secure Email Gateway 8.2 update.

NEWS ANALYSIS FROM CES 2019: CEO Ginni Rometty’s address was a refreshing departure for a conference that, in past years, has too often been a megaphone for trumpeting vapid trends and short-lived products. Rather, she spent her time on the CES stage…

PRODUCT ANALYSIS: SailPoint’s software is used by more than 1,000 companies around the world, providing a way of managing points of exposure with the power of identity, offering a broad set of identity and access management products, while giving customers…