Spot Security identifies and assesses cloud security posture risks to help SecOps and CloudOps teams ensure continuous cloud security and compliance

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 27 July 2022 – NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company, today announced the general availability of Spot Security. Built for the cloud, Spot Security delivers a solution for continuous assessment and analysis of cloud security posture. Spot Security enables DevOps and SecOps teams to easily collaborate to identify misconfigurations, reduce their potential attack surface, and ensure compliance.

Spot Security’s agentless technology analyzes cloud resource relationships to provide clear visibility and prioritized actions, automatically determining the prospective exposure of each cloud resource and surfacing critical security threats based on their potential impact to the organization. These automated actions mitigate alert fatigue and keep cloud infrastructure secure and operations teams efficient.

With Spot Security, organizations can now enjoy:

360° Visibility: With a clear view into security posture and attack surfaces, network analysis, asset inventory, and cloud user behavior all from the same console via graph visualization of risk maps and service maps.

Prioritized In-Depth Analytics: Identify new risks, abnormal behavior or new cloud resources in an instant with continuous monitoring and analysis, ultimately providing clear objectives for DevOps teams to focus on and steering efforts to real issues, removing false positives and embedding security into cloud operations.

Automated Detection and Remediation: Detect misconfigurations and anomalies to efficiently support remediation of security and compliance risks across multi-cloud infrastructure.

Compliance: Support compliance to industry security standards and regulatory mandates, enabling businesses to stay compliant.

“DevOps engineers are constantly asked to deliver solutions to a wide range of challenges that can impact the efficiency and operations of their business,” said Azzedine Benameur, Head of Spot Security for Spot by NetApp. “Spot Security provides DevOps and SecOps a solution that meets the critical requirement to ensure the security of their dynamic cloud environment, further innovating the Spot by NetApp CloudOps suite of solutions that automate and optimize operations in the cloud.”

“Hybrid and multi-cloud are providing enterprises some of their biggest business opportunities of all time, while potentially bringing in new cyberthreats,” said Sanjay Rohatgi, senior vice president and general manager, NetApp Asia Pacific & Japan. “Spot Security is a decisive step towards NetApp’s efforts to bring the agility, flexibility and cost effectiveness of cloud to APAC organisations without compromising security.”

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About NetApp

NetApp is a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloudlike experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services and applications to the right people—anytime, anywhere. Learn more at www.netapp.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

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This will strengthen the company’s position as a global payment player adaptable to local markets and customer needs. Netcetera’s high-standard operations will continue in an environment-friendly manner

ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – EQS Newswire – 26 July 2022 – Today, as part of its future-orientated approach, Netcetera is announcing the switch to a cloud platform using world-leading hosting service providers. The first step of going cloud is the finalized migration of its 3DS services to a new cloud hosting environment.

This switch promises to deliver modernized infrastructure that more easily meets rapidly changing customer behavior and expectations, and drives business growth. The change is part of the payment player’s dedication to achieving sustainability and responsibility towards society through ongoing efforts to improve its core industry. “High-quality and high-availability solutions are an important part of our success, as are the long-term relationships we build with our customers and partners. We work with front-runners in the payment field to ensure that we set up the security and quality standards in the industry.” – stated Christian Waldvogel, from the Management Team of Netcetera.

Cloud means to provide sustainable solutions that solve the infrastructural and local market challenges, i.e., to be ready for global coverage, be able to get and provide services closer to the customers, and answer the local regions’ needs in which the payment player operates.

For Netcetera customers, it means that the company is undertaking all the actions to optimize costs, especially when resource shortages and prices are scaling up, and the markets around the world are strengthening their local regulations. Even more, cloud platform usage will improve the ability to instantly serve the most demanding and significant payment platforms during peak loads. Adopting the cloud leads to 62% more efficient IT infrastructure management vs. on-premises and reduced unplanned downtime. The cloud data centers that rely on renewable energy resources guarantee improved performance with automated scalability in a highly secured PCI 3DS/DSS certified infrastructure.

When asked about Netcetera’s plans, in the long run, the CEO, Andrej Vckovski, stated: “We care about where our energy comes from and how we are using it, and the time has come for all payment players to get involved in the process with global action. Digitalization is usually an energy saver on a global scale, but it still accounts for about 10% of global energy consumption. Clever design and reduction of energy waste can already make a difference. Along with us, our customers will contribute to this mission and join us in decreasing the carbon footprint.”

The migration process of the Netcetera 3DS Server to a new cloud platform started in January 2022. It was carried out in phases to ensure that the whole process was implemented smoothly.

Netcetera’s acquiring products enable processing transactions with 3-D Secure protocols and PSD2 SCA exemptions, certified with the biggest card networks, and fully compliant with all the standards in the payment industry. 3-D Secure is a globally trusted protocol for securing online transactions. It involves links between various components to ensure communication between merchants, issuers, and acquiring banks.

Netcetera will continue providing compelling business benefits such as improved conversions, optimized checkout processes, reduced fraud, and protection from fraudulent chargeback liability without compromising the smooth user experience for the online shopper. As a strong, flexible, and reliable partner, the leading software company strives for a positive global impact and beneficial changes in its customers’ business. This step aligns with the payment player’s modern, resource-efficient, and competitive way of working. Proudly confirming the statement of one of its customers: “Local inclusion of international payment players such as Netcetera will only mean more innovation and knowledge in the local online payment methods and the payment ecosystem as a whole.” Netcetera’s final goal is to delight its customers, answer their needs and jointly act responsibly towards the living environment.

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About Netcetera

Netcetera is a global software company with cutting-edge IT products and individual digital solutions in the areas of secure digital payment, financial technologies, media, transport, healthcare and insurance. More than 2,000 banks and issuers, and 150,000 merchants rely on the digital payment solutions and globally certified 3-D Secure products of the market leader for payment security. The owner-managed company covers the entire IT lifecycle, from ideation and strategy to implementation and operation. The balanced combination of the latest technologies and proven standards ensures investment security, from large-scale projects to innovative start-ups. Founded in 1996, Netcetera is a holding company with around 800 employees and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, with additional locations across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

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Expanded coverage to serve growing regional and global customer base

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 26 July 2022 – Leading telecommunications, network, and security solutions provider ViewQwest today announced it has opened technical and commercial operations in Hong Kong to deliver Managed SASE and SD-WAN solutions to its customers in Hong Kong and Macau. The move further extends ViewQwest’s SASE market coverage in SEA as it meets the urgent demand for enterprise network and security transformation in the region.

ViewQwest Chief Executive Officer Vignesa Moorthy says, “The accelerated business digital transformation we witnessed in 2020 and 2021 magnified the weaknesses of traditional network and security models. With the widespread adoption of cloud applications, and the hybrid workplace and workforce, organisations demand high-performance, high-availability, and high-security access from their network. All this while streamlining operations, driving cost-savings, and enabling business agility.”

ViewQwest has been rolling out its Managed SASE and SD-WAN offerings across SEA with market presence in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, supporting large domestic and global enterprises undertake large-scale transformation of their network and security architecture. Moorthy shares, “Our expansion in Hong Kong brings us closer to more customers with similar regional and global footprints. They are facing similar challenges and have seen the massive benefits the transformation has brought for their peers in various sectors such as retail, construction, manufacturing, logistics, and financial services.”

ViewQwest Managed SASE converges networking and security services into one unified solution. It replaces the legacy data center-oriented security with a cloud-based architecture and places network and security controls on the edge versus the corporate data center. ViewQwest Managed SD-WAN is designed to fully support and deliver the highest application performance for applications hosted in data centers and in the cloud, including SaaS services. Together, the solutions enable enterprises to provide secure access to any remote user, branch office, device, or application, and companies can reap enhanced protection and network performance, while reducing costs and complexity.

ViewQwest has been named by global cybersecurity leader Palo Alto Networks as a Next Wave MSSP Innovator. ViewQwest Hong Kong will provide the complete range of global connectivity, SASE solutions, and managed services required for enterprise network and security transformation.

Moorthy concludes, “We help customers transform their WAN and security architecture with confidence. With our telco DNA, no one understands networks as we do. We deliver high-performance internet links and simultaneously drive significant cost savings. Our global carrier relationships support customers’ footprint wherever they operate. And our certified capabilities for best-of-breed SASE from leading global cybersecurity leaders such as Palo Alto Networks enables us to create differentiated services to address security demands from different markets and customers. It is a distinct advantage that we can offer regional and global enterprises headquartered in Hong Kong and Macau but operate worldwide.”

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About ViewQwest

Established in 2001, ViewQwest is a leading telecommunications service provider of domestic and global connectivity, managed network and security solutions, and other managed ICT services. It has been consistently recognized as Singapore’s fastest Fixed Network Provider in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 by Ookla Speedtest Intelligence. In 2021, Ookla also named ViewQwest the Most Consistent Fixed Network in Singapore.

In 2016, ViewQwest expanded into Malaysia as a fully licensed operator with Network Facility Provider (NFP), Network Service Provider (NSP) and Application Service Provider (ASP) licenses. In 2019, it commenced commercial operations in the Philippines further expanding its market coverage for Managed SASE, SD-WAN, and cybersecurity solutions.