All news in category “Vendor and Hyperscaler Watch”

🔐 Cloudflare One reframes enterprise security around protecting sensitive data across networks, endpoints, SaaS, and AI interfaces. The post introduces new controls — clipboard restrictions for browser-based RDP, operation-level mapping surfaced in logs, on-device Endpoint DLP in the Cloudflare One Client, and Microsoft 365 Copilot scanning via API CASB. Together these features aim to give consistent visibility and enforcement so policy follows data rather than product boundaries.

🔒 CrowdStrike announces sensor-based log collector deployment in Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, leveraging the existing Falcon sensor footprint to automate collector installation and management. The policy-driven model enables host-group scoping, incremental rollouts, and real-time installation telemetry without separate distribution tooling or packaging workflows. Organizations can onboard external log sources faster while retaining centralized governance and RBAC.

🚀Amazon EC2 R8g instances are now available in AWS Middle East (UAE), AWS Mexico (Central), and AWS Europe (Zurich). Powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, these R8g instances deliver up to 30% better performance compared to Graviton3-based R7g instances and are optimized for memory‑intensive workloads like databases, in‑memory caches, and real‑time analytics. R8g offers 12 sizes (including two bare metal options), scales up to 48xlarge and 1.5 TB of memory, and provides enhanced networking (up to 50 Gbps) and up to 40 Gbps EBS bandwidth. AWS also recommends migration support via the Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor to help move workloads to Graviton4.

🔧 Microsoft will make OpenAI's GPT-5.4 available soon through Microsoft Foundry, positioning the model for production-grade, agent-driven automation. GPT-5.4 emphasizes sustained multi-turn reasoning, improved instruction alignment, lower latency, and integrated computer-use capabilities for tool orchestration, file access, guarded code execution, and agent handoffs. A premium GPT-5.4 Pro targets deeper analytical workflows, while Foundry supplies policy, monitoring, versioning, and audit controls for enterprise deployment.

🔁 Amazon Redshift Serverless now automatically preserves datashare permissions when restoring a snapshot to the same producer namespace. This removes the prior need for administrators to manually re-grant permissions and recreate consumer databases after a restore. The change reduces administrative overhead and streamlines disaster recovery and testing workflows. EventBridge notifications report permission drops, revoked consumer access, or public-access changes during restore operations.

🛡️Multi-party approval (MPA) administrators can now run manual test approvals to verify that configured approval teams are reachable, active, and correctly selected. Administrators initiate baseline test sessions through the AWS Organizations console to detect inactive members, confirm notification delivery, and validate approval counts and thresholds. AWS recommends periodic checks (every 90 days) to maintain governance and operational readiness before relying on approvals for sensitive operations. This capability is available in all AWS commercial regions.

🔆 AWS has added light mode support to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio for IAM-based domains, allowing users to choose between dark and light visual themes. The addition improves readability in bright environments and offers a familiar look for customers who prefer lighter interfaces. In Studio, select Profile > customize appearance to switch modes. The setting persists across browsers and devices and complements the existing dark mode to give users full control over their development environment's appearance.

🔒 AWS has completed the 2026 Dubai Electronic Security Centre (DESC) annual certification audit and retained its Tier 1 Cloud Service Provider (CSP) status for the Middle East (UAE) Region. The assessment was validated by independent auditor BSI, and the renewed DESC certificate is available through AWS Artifact, valid to January 22, 2027. AWS added 10 services into scope, bringing the total to 108 services in the region—about a 10% increase.

🚀 AWS has expanded Database Savings Plans to include Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Neptune Analytics, enabling up to 35% savings in exchange for a one-year usage commitment with no upfront payment. The discount automatically applies to eligible serverless and provisioned instances regardless of engine, instance family, size, deployment option, or Region (China excluded). Coverage is available immediately in all Regions except China, and customers can purchase or analyze Savings Plans via the Billing console or AWS CLI using console recommendations or the Savings Plans Purchase Analyzer for customized estimates.

🚀 Google Cloud now provides native custom metrics for GKE Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), eliminating the need for external adapters, agents, and complex Workload Identity bindings. The agentless design sources pod metrics directly and exposes them via a new AutoscalingMetric controller, reducing latency, cost, and operational fragility. Users declare an AutoscalingMetric that points to a pod metric and reference it in an HPA, allowing HPAs to scale on custom workload signals just like CPU or memory. Google frames this as an initial step toward intent-based autoscaling for AI, gaming, batch, and other demanding workloads.

🔒 Google Cloud published a recommended security checklist based on Minimum Viable Secure Product principles, offering 60 curated controls across six domains to help organizations harden cloud environments. The tiered Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced guidance is designed to be simple and scalable. It’s also automatable via a companion Terraform repository and positioned as AI-ready to support adoption of agentic AI. Early customers reported the checklist enabled rapid activation of critical controls and hardened baselines in a single session.

🟡 This guide introduces Nano Banana image models—built on the Gemini 3 family—and explains how they combine deep reasoning and live web search to produce precise visuals. It summarizes technical specifications (context windows, resolutions, aspect ratios, supported inputs/outputs), practical prompting best practices, five prompting frameworks, and integration patterns with Veo and Lyria. The guide also highlights multilingual text rendering, provenance safeguards, and workflow tips for creative and production use.

🔐 Women early in their careers are shaping the future of cybersecurity and AI security, bringing fresh perspectives, curiosity, and collaborative leadership that strengthen detection, design, and resilience. The post argues that diversity is a security imperative, citing research such as the ISACA paper and workforce data showing women comprise roughly 24% of the field. It highlights leaders and programs like Girl Security and recommends practical steps—mentorship, inclusive hiring, sustained training, and community partnerships—to support women from introduction through leadership.

🔍 AWS Elastic Beanstalk now offers AI-powered environment analysis that collects recent events, instance health, and logs and sends them to Amazon Bedrock for automated diagnosis. Developers and operations teams can request an analysis from the Elastic Beanstalk console or use the AWS CLI with RequestEnvironmentInfo and RetrieveEnvironmentInfo. The feature returns step-by-step, environment-specific troubleshooting recommendations to help reduce mean time to resolution and is available in Regions where both services exist.

🔔 AWS Shield now surfaces network security director findings in AWS Security Hub, giving centralized visibility into missing or misconfigured network controls across an AWS Organization. The capability detects gaps in services such as AWS WAF, VPC security groups, and VPC network ACLs and provides remediation recommendations. Findings also appear in the Security Hub Inventory, and severity is determined by the misconfiguration combined with the resource's network topology.

🔒 The Fortinet NSE 8 Cybersecurity Expert credential represents the pinnacle of technical achievement within Fortinet’s certification program, validating deep design, configuration, and troubleshooting skills for complex enterprise environments. Candidates must demonstrate theoretical, conceptual, and practical mastery, plus extensive real-world experience and continuous learning. The article highlights Swedish partner Avoki, which now counts four NSE 8s among its senior engineers, and notes the company’s 2026 integration into iteam. Readers are invited to sign up for an ebook launching March 17 to learn more about paths to NSE 8.

🏆 Fortinet has been named a Gartner Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for SD‑WAN for the seventh consecutive year, reflecting sustained customer confidence. In the February 2026 Voice of the Customer report, Fortinet Secure SD‑WAN earned a 4.8/5 overall rating and a 96% willingness to recommend based on 202 verified reviews through December 31, 2025. Customers highlight integrated networking and security via FortiOS, ASIC-accelerated performance, and centralized orchestration with FortiManager as key differentiators in deployment, support, and operational simplicity.

🚀 AWS has made EC2 I8ge instances available in the Europe (Ireland) region to support large storage I/O–intensive workloads. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (3.2 GHz all-core turbo) and 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I8ge offers up to 40% better compute and up to 65% improved real-time storage performance versus prior I3en instances. These instances deliver up to 120 TB local NVMe, reduced I/O latency and variability, a 16 KB torn write prevention feature for database workloads, eleven sizes including two metal options, and up to 180 Gbps network with 60 Gbps EBS bandwidth; customers can launch via the AWS Console, CLI, or SDKs.

🔧 The Cloudflare One Client now implements Path MTU Discovery to detect and avoid PMTUD black holes that silently drop large encrypted packets. Using active probes over MASQUE (built on Cloudflare’s QUIC library), the client tests packet sizes end-to-end and dynamically adjusts the virtual interface MTU. This non-disruptive background process preserves sessions across shifting networks — for example, when moving from Wi‑Fi to cellular — preventing stalled uploads, calls, or SSH sessions. The feature is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

🛡️ Check Point Services has launched CPR Act, an expert-led unit that unifies security across the full lifecycle with continuous intelligence, coordinated action, and measurable outcomes. The service addresses fragmented products and visibility gaps by connecting research, monitoring, and response so each phase feeds the next. A dedicated team of researchers, analysts, and responders delivers clear, research-based insight for decisive action.