A regularly updated directory of press releases related to cyber security.

Issued by: proofpoint

20/7/2017
Proofpoint Inc. Appoints Michael Johnson to its Board of Directors

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Proofpoint, Inc., (NASDAQ:PFPT), a leading next-generation cybersecurity company, today announced its Board of Directors has appointed Michael Johnson as a new independent director, effective July 18, 2017. Mr. Johnson currently serves as senior vice president and chief information security officer of Capital One Financial Corporation. Prior to this role, he served as the chief…

Issued by: Rapid7

20/7/2017
Rapid7 Acquires Security Orchestration and Automation Company, Komand

Boston, MA — July 18, 2017 Rapid7, Inc. (NASDAQ: RPD), a leading provider of analytics solutions for security and IT operations, has acquired Komand, a security orchestration and automation company, to help its customers reduce time to resolution, maximize resources, and overcome ecosystem complexity. This acquisition enables Rapid7 to address the critical need for orchestration and automation…

Issued by: Sans

20/7/2017
SANS Survey Finds Cyber Security Often Defends Against the Wrong Enemy

Bethesda, MD, July 19, 2017 – Information security staffs are so single-minded about defending their organizations from external attack that they all but ignore a threat with vastly greater potential for damage, according to a new survey to be released by SANS Institute on August 1. As security protecting organizations from outside attack gets more formidable, attackers…

Issued by: FireEye

18/7/2017
FireEye Receives FedRAMP Certification for Government Email Threat Prevention Service

MILPITAS, Calif. – July 18, 2017 – FireEye, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEYE), the intelligence-led security company, today announced that FireEye Government Email Threat Prevention (ETP) cloud email security offering, designed to help protect against advanced persistent threats (APTs), received an agency authority to operate (ATO ) from the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) in accordance…

Issued by: SANS

18/7/2017
SANS Announces Winners of First Japan NetWars Tournament at Tokyo Training Event

Immersive Capture the Flag Event Upped the Ante with Exciting and Complex New Challenges (Pictured: Tim Medin – SANS instructor, Mr. Ruslan Sayfiev – Symantec Japan, Mr. Yumehisa Haga – NRI SecureTechnologies, Mr. Takanori Inazumi – NTT Communications, Ms. Momoko Aoyama and Mr. Taketo Ikeuchi (team) – Hitachi Solutions, Mr. Yuji Chiba – NRI SecureTechnologies)…

Issued by: Gigamon

18/7/2017

Gigamon extends to 36 percent market share driven by increasing industry demand for monitoring at 40G and 100G speeds Santa Clara, Calif., (July 12, 2017) – Gigamon Inc. (NYSE: GIMO), the industry leader in traffic visibility solutions, today announced the results of the recently released IHS Markit Network Monitoring Equipment, 2017 Annual Market Report1  in…

Issued by: Cisco

18/7/2017
Sky and Cisco Strengthen Video Security Bond To Increase Content Protection for Any Screen

July 17, 2017 SAN JOSE, Calif.  – As security concerns grow in a world of cloud-powered and OTT-to-any-screen video services, service providers are taking the necessary steps to protect their digital services – spanning Internet, video and mobile – from piracy, hacks and illegal activity. Sky and Cisco announced today that the companies have extended their…

Issued by: Kaspersky Lab

18/7/2017
Kaspersky Lab Expands Sponsorship Portfolio with DS Virgin Racing Formula E Team

Woburn, MA – July 14, 2017 – DS Virgin Racing and Kaspersky Lab today announced an innovative, new multi-year partnership that will see the global cybersecurity company protect the team’s devices against cyber threats. The announcement was made in conjunction with Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson during DS Virgin Racing’s pioneering Innovation Summit, held at…

Issued by: Cylance

12/7/2017
Cylance Named to Second Annual Forbes 2017 Cloud 100 List

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, July 11, 2017 – Today, Cylance® Inc. is named to the Forbes 2017 Cloud 100 list, the definitive list of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in collaboration with Bessemer Venture Partners. Cylance will be celebrated tonight in San Francisco at The Cloud 100 Celebration, an exclusive event…

Issued by: ESET

12/7/2017
ESET to Highlight Groundbreaking Research Findings at Black Hat 2017

11 Jul 2017 This year at Black Hat (July 22–27, 2017, in Las Vegas, NV), the world’s leading information security event, IT security firm ESET will lead two important sessions.  The first is ESET’s groundbreaking original discovery of the Industroyer malware, which is one of the only known malware threats that directly targets electrical substation switches and circuit…