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DigiCert and Valimail partner to help companies display brand in email
DigiCert , a world leading provider of TLS / SSL , IoT and other PKI solutions , and Valimail , a leading provider of identity-based antiphishing solutions , has announced that they are partnering to help companies prepare for Brand Indicators for Message Identification ( BIMI ), a new standard currently in pilot that allows companies to display a verified logo in emails with a Verified Mark Certificate ( VMC ).
“ DigiCert is pleased to partner with Valimail to support pilots that advance the BIMI email security standard with VMCs ,” said DigiCert Senior Director of Business Development , Dean Coclin . “ We anticipate growing demand for digital certificates displaying verified logos in email and are developing scalable solutions to help companies be ready on day one .”
“ BIMI is a huge step forward for email marketing and when combined with DMARC enforcement , it will help make the entire ecosystem more secure ,” said Steve Mock , VP of Business Development for Valimail . “ We ’ re very proud to be working with DigiCert to create a one-stop shop for companies to make themselves BIMI-ready .” A major BIMI pilot with Yahoo has been underway for the past year , and Google has recently announced plans to launch a BIMI pilot in 2020 . Upcoming BIMI pilots are expected to require VMCs for participants . DigiCert issued the world ’ s first VMC for a domain that sends email at scale to CNN . com in October 2019 .
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ServiceNow to acquire configuration data management pioneer , Sweagle
ServiceNow , a leading digital workflow company making work , work better for people , has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Sweagle , a Belgiumbased configuration data management company . The transaction will extend ServiceNow ’ s DevOps and IT Operations Management ( ITOM ) capabilities , giving customers the ability to leverage Machine Learning to identify and help prevent potential misconfigurations from causing outages in production and speeding up remediation .
COVID-19 has magnified the importance for organisations to quickly adapt technology to meet changing customer and employee needs . Sweagle provides a single source of truth for configuration data that is otherwise spread across many tools . With Sweagle , ServiceNow customers can identify and intercept application and infrastructure inconsistencies during agile development cycles .
“ With capabilities for configuration data management from Sweagle , we will empower DevOps teams to deliver application and infrastructure changes more rapidly , while reducing risk ,” said RJ Jainendra , Vice President and General Manager of DevOps and IT Business
Management at ServiceNow . “ Sweagle also brings deep DevOps talent to ServiceNow . Both founders are pioneers in configuration data management , and we are honoured to have this talent join our team as we continue to help customers compete and win in a digital economy .”
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