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F5’s multi-cloud networking capabilities simplify operations for distributed application deployments
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NIST Warns of Unique Security Risks in Multi-Cloud Environments
NIST catalogued 23 novel security challenges unique to multi-cloud environments and urged the community to develop solutions.
NIST published an analysis identifying 23 distinct security challenges that arise specifically in multi-cloud environments. The agency explicitly encouraged the cybersecurity community to work on solutions for these gaps. The publication reflects growing official concern that spanning multiple cloud providers creates risk patterns not covered by single-cloud security models.
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Top 10 Best Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) Tools in 2026
2026 CIEM guide ranks Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Okta, Entra Permissions Management and specialists Sonrai, Britive, Tenable/Ermetic for cloud entitlement right-sizing.
Buyer's guide covers ten CIEM products across three market routes: CNAPP-bundled (Wiz, Prisma Cloud), identity-suite (Okta, CyberArk, SailPoint, Saviynt) and specialists (Sonrai, Britive, Tenable/Ermetic). It cites machine identities outnumbering humans 10:1 plus effective-permissions sprawl as core drivers, with JIT elevation as the fix. Notable consolidation includes Tenable acquiring Ermetic and Zscaler acquiring Canonic.
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Mirantis collaborates with Equinix to help businesses accelerate cloud-native application deployment
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Top 10 Best Kubernetes Security Tools in 2026
Top 10 Kubernetes security tools roundup highlights Sysdig and Aqua as specialists plus strong free options Kubescape, Calico, and Falco.
A buying guide ranks ten Kubernetes security tools across admission control, network policy, runtime detection, and posture management. Sysdig leads runtime depth, Aqua leads full lifecycle, Red Hat ACS owns OpenShift estates, and Wiz offers agentless graph correlation. The guide notes this category has cloud security's strongest open-source floor with Kubescape, Calico, and Falco.
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Top 10 Best Container Security Tools in 2026
2026 roundup ranks Aqua, Sysdig, Prisma Cloud, Wiz, Snyk and CrowdStrike among the ten best container security tools across build-ship-run.
Buyer's guide compares ten container security products by lifecycle fit: Aqua leads full lifecycle, Sysdig leads runtime detection via Falco and eBPF, Wiz offers agentless graph visibility, Snyk covers developer-first shift-left. It notes Trivy and Falco as free production-grade open-source foundations. The guide argues standalone container security is increasingly absorbed into CNAPP platforms from Palo Alto, Wiz and CrowdStrike.
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NVIDIA to Acquire Hugging Face
NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion while pledging to keep the platform open, multi-cloud and vendor-neutral.
NVIDIA announced an agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000. Hugging Face hosts more than 3 million models, 500,000 datasets and 1 million applications used by over 18 million developers and 200,000 companies. NVIDIA says the platform will remain open, with no requirement to use NVIDIA compute, and will continue supporting multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development and deployment. NVIDIA is already Hugging Face's largest contributor of open models and datasets, with more than 500 models and 250 open datasets released.
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Key Reasons Why Identity Fabric Matters in 2026
Identity sprawl and unowned machine identities leave enterprise access unobserved at runtime; identity fabrics aim to close the gap between policy intent and execution.
This sponsored explainer describes identity fabric as an architectural approach connecting identity providers, governance systems, applications, and infrastructure into one observable layer that compares designed access intent with runtime execution. It argues identity sprawl across SaaS, APIs, and cloud workloads, plus unmanaged non-human identities (service accounts, bots, workloads, API keys), leaves overprivileged, dormant, and unowned machine identities unmonitored. IdP-only monitoring misses application-layer attacks, and the piece advocates behavioral visibility and lifecycle governance for secrets and machine identities.
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Attack Paths Into VMs in the Cloud
Unit 42 maps attack paths into AWS, Azure, and GCP VMs through intended features like startup scripts and SSH key pushes.
Palo Alto Unit 42 reviewed attack vectors against virtual machine services on AWS, Azure, and GCP, finding that 11% of internet-exposed cloud hosts carry Critical or High severity vulnerabilities. The attack paths rely on legitimate features such as EC2 User Data, VM custom data, EC2 Instance Connect, SSM Run Command, and serial consoles rather than vulnerabilities, and exploiting them requires attackers to first obtain control plane permissions. A compromised VM exposes not only its data but the workload identity and cloud permissions assigned to it, making identity compromise potentially more damaging than data theft. The firm places mitigation responsibility on cloud users and administrators.
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