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Tetrate Launches Open Source 'Authservice' in Collaboration with the US Air Force Platform One Team to Simplify Cloud-Native Authentication

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Wednesday, April 17, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Tetrate, the company bringing Istio and Envoy to the enterprise, in partnership with the United States Air Force (USAF) Platform One team, has launched Authservice, an open source project that sets a new standard in cloud-native authentication and compliance. With OpenID Connect (OIDC) integration and seamless Kubernetes support, Authservice allows developers to protect APIs and web apps without application code.

Key Points: 
  • Authservice offers scalability and operational simplicity in cloud environments as a drop-in replacement for the existing Istio authservice.
  • Authservice uses Istio mesh sidecars and Kubernetes secrets to provide dynamic, automated support for authentication.
  • "Authservice is a groundbreaking advancement in cloud-native security, and we're delighted to make it available as an open source project," said Branden Wood, federal director at Tetrate.
  • Platform One is a cloud-based software development platform used by the USAF to build secure and compliant software applications.

Backblaze Launches Enterprise Control to Support Advanced Administration and Data Protection Needs

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Enterprise Control brings the value businesses love in Backblaze Computer Backup—including unlimited backups, one year version history, and simple, affordable pricing—and adds advanced administration tools that large businesses require both to protect workstations and meet ever-evolving cybersecurity requirements.

Key Points: 
  • Enterprise Control brings the value businesses love in Backblaze Computer Backup—including unlimited backups, one year version history, and simple, affordable pricing—and adds advanced administration tools that large businesses require both to protect workstations and meet ever-evolving cybersecurity requirements.
  • “We’re excited at the possibility of having even more control to meet our growing administration and data protection needs with this new Computer Backup with Enterprise Control solution.”
    Backblaze Computer Backup with Enterprise Controls features and benefits include:
    Fine-Grained Permissions: Allows administrators to control access to group member data on a granular level for enterprise operations.
  • “Backblaze Computer Backup with Enterprise Control builds on our history of providing unlimited data backup and ransomware protection for organizations large and small," said Gleb Budman, Backblaze CEO and Chairperson of the Board.
  • Backblaze shared more information about the Backblaze Computer Backup with Enterprise Control on their blog .

Badge's Privacy-Preserving Authentication Now Available on Auth0 Marketplace, Okta Customer Identity Cloud

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Badge Inc., the award-winning privacy company enabling Identity without Secrets™ today announced the availability of its novel privacy-preserving authentication solution on Auth0 Marketplace, a catalog of trusted technology integrations to extend the functionality of Okta Customer Identity Cloud powered by Auth0.

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Badge Inc. , the award-winning privacy company enabling Identity without Secrets™ today announced the availability of its novel privacy-preserving authentication solution on Auth0 Marketplace , a catalog of trusted technology integrations to extend the functionality of Okta Customer Identity Cloud powered by Auth0 .
  • The Badge integration allows Auth0 customers to enroll once and authenticate on any device with their preferred biometrics and factors for a safe and holistic user experience.
  • Okta reviews partner integration functionality and makes available integrations that are easy to discover and integrate for customers.
  • Partners can participate in the growing demand for digital identity solutions and increase their visibility as part of Auth0 Marketplace, and can learn more here: https://auth0.com/partners .

Badge Innovation Cracks the Code in Security by Removing PII and Biometric Storage as Attack Vector for Data Breaches

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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Badge Inc., the award-winning privacy company enabling Identity without Secrets™, today announced public availability of its patented authentication technology that renders PII and biometric credential storage obsolete, eliminating passwords, device redirects, and knowledge-based authentication (KBA) with "enroll once and authenticate on any device" ease. Among the first partners to collaborate with Badge is Okta. Now available on the Okta Marketplace, the two companies today announced integration with the popular Auth0 Marketplace, extending Badge's technology to Okta and Auth0 customers and highlighting the versatility and broader applicability of Badge's solutions within the Okta ecosystem.

Key Points: 
  • "Badge cracked the code on the leading cause of data breaches: stored credentials."
  • With Badge, the pervasive concern of PII being in the open and unprotected is over.
  • The extraordinary MIT minds at Badge cracked the code on the leading cause of data breaches – stored credentials.
  • For partners, Badge provides zero-code integration using standard protocols, including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, FIDO, TLS, Kerberos, and others.

Tetrate Introduces 100% Upstream-Powered Tetrate Enterprise Envoy Gateway to Streamline Developer Experience for Gateway Use Cases

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Tuesday, November 7, 2023

CHICAGO, Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- KUBECON + CLOUDNATIVECON NORTH AMERICA — Tetrate, the company bringing Istio and Envoy to the enterprise, today introduced Tetrate Enterprise Envoy Gateway (TEG) for tech preview. TEG is Tetrate's enterprise-grade, fully supported offering of open source Envoy Gateway, a streamlined API tailored for gateway use cases. TEG is in technical preview. Interested design partners can learn more at: https://tetrate.io/tetrate-enterprise-envoy-gateway/.

Key Points: 
  • TEG is Tetrate's enterprise-grade, fully supported offering of open source Envoy Gateway, a streamlined API tailored for gateway use cases.
  • Envoy Gateway , the core of TEG, is an open source project under the umbrella of Envoy and the CNCF, created in May of 2022 to "bring Envoy to the masses."
  • Envoy Gateway makes it simple to use Envoy Proxy as a service and API gateway by leveraging the new Kubernetes Gateway APIs and delivering a simplified deployment mode aimed at common cloud native use cases.
  • "In addition to serving as a primary contributor to the Envoy Gateway project , Tetrate is offering TEG as a fully supported, 100% upstream distribution of Envoy Gateway with additional tooling and support for the enterprise.

JumpCloud Wins Coveted Top InfoSec Innovator Award for 2023

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Tuesday, October 31, 2023

LOUISVILLE, Colo., Oct. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JumpCloud Inc. today announced it has been named the winner for the Hot Company SMB Cybersecurity award from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine.

Key Points: 
  • LOUISVILLE, Colo., Oct. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- JumpCloud Inc. today announced it has been named the winner for the Hot Company SMB Cybersecurity award from Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), the industry’s leading electronic information security magazine.
  • “We’re honored to be a member of this coveted group of winners in the 11th year of Cyber Defense Awards during CyberDefenseCon 2023 ,” said Eric Brown, vice president of corporate marketing, JumpCloud.
  • Enroll in JumpCloud University , where admins can enroll in free courses for all skill levels and earn official JumpCloud certification.
  • Attend The IT Hour , a weekly community program open to anyone, which focuses on everything in the life of the IT admin.

JumpCloud Releases JumpCloud Go™ for Phishing-Resistant Passwordless Authentication and More in Newest Release

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Today’s release enhances organizations’ security capabilities and improves identity and device management for users, admins, and managed service providers (MSPs) who oversee their IT access.

Key Points: 
  • Today’s release enhances organizations’ security capabilities and improves identity and device management for users, admins, and managed service providers (MSPs) who oversee their IT access.
  • JumpCloud Android EMM enables customers and MSPs to securely select, deploy, and manage Android devices and services throughout their environment.
  • JumpCloud is introducing federated authentication for device login and self-service provisioning, enabling organizations to keep their current identity provider (IdP) in place when implementing JumpCloud for device management.
  • Enroll in JumpCloud University , where admins can enroll in free courses for all skill levels and earn official JumpCloud certification.

Descope Launches Identity Federation Broker to Eliminate Customer Identity Silos for Enterprises

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Monday, October 16, 2023

Descope helps IT teams and developers add authentication, authorization, and identity management to their apps using no / low code workflows.

Key Points: 
  • Descope helps IT teams and developers add authentication, authorization, and identity management to their apps using no / low code workflows.
  • With the newly added identity federation capabilities, Descope acts as an Identity Federation Broker to enable connections between any permutation of client and IdP.
  • “Customer identity silos and fragmentation is not something that just affects the Fortune 1000,” said Slavik Markovich, Co-Founder and CEO of Descope.
  • Descope’s identity federation capabilities can help even lean IT and developer teams take control of their customer identities.”
    Learn more about identity federation with Descope.

Pulumi Gives Enterprises a Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Platform-in-a-Box

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Infrastructure as code leader Pulumi today introduced Pulumi for Platform Teams, a complete set of capabilities that increase agility, compliance, and security.

Key Points: 
  • Infrastructure as code leader Pulumi today introduced Pulumi for Platform Teams, a complete set of capabilities that increase agility, compliance, and security.
  • Internal developer portals (IDPs) enable developers to quickly provision approved infrastructure, boosting productivity with pre-configured architectures and automated testing.
  • New Pulumi capabilities for platform teams include:
    Pulumi Developer Portal provides platform teams with an out-of-the-box Service Catalog experience so that developers can deploy from Pulumi Cloud.
  • The new plugin integrates Pulumi Developer Portal with CNCF’s Backstage, enabling developers to browse, provision, and monitor infrastructure using both platforms.

Pulumi Makes Cloud Configuration Simple and Secure with Pulumi ESC

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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Infrastructure as code leader Pulumi today announced Pulumi ESC, a new solution to manage Environments, Secrets, and Configurations for cloud infrastructure and applications.

Key Points: 
  • Infrastructure as code leader Pulumi today announced Pulumi ESC, a new solution to manage Environments, Secrets, and Configurations for cloud infrastructure and applications.
  • We are thrilled that Pulumi ESC will help us manage these at scale more robustly with a simple and secure approach.”
    Modern cloud applications are dynamic and rely on many different cloud and SaaS services.
  • Pulumi ESC solves these problems by providing a simple and secure way to manage environments:
    Define Anywhere, Consume Anywhere: ESC can pull configuration and secrets from any source, and consume them in any application.
  • With Pulumi ESC, our community can now bring additional critical aspects of infrastructure management into their Pulumi workflow,” said Luke Hoban, CTO of Pulumi.