How Security Complexity Is Being Weaponized
In my last article, I discussed the trade-offs we often make between complexity and capabilities when adopting new security tools and why there is often a point of diminishing returns in terms of the value derived from these tools as we layer on incremental functionality. In this article, I delve a bit deeper into the…
SATCOM Cybersecurity Alert Issued as Authorities Probe Possible Russian Attack
CISA and the FBI have made a series of recommendations to help SATCOM network providers and customers strengthen cybersecurity. Network providers have been advised to implement additional monitoring capabilities for anomalous traffic related to SATCOM equipment. They have also been advised to read a recent threat assessment report from the Office of the Director of…
HD Moore’s Rumble Raises $15M Series A Investment
The Austin, Texas-based Rumble on Monday announced it had banked a new $15 million in Series A financing from Decibel Partners and a laundry-list of boldface cybersecurity practitioners. Rumble, created by HD Moore (of Metasploit fame), sells technology to help defenders monitor exposed attack surfaces. The company said the new money will help accelerate go-to-market…
Russia-Ukraine: Threat of Local Cyber Operations Escalating Into Global Cyberwar
This could all change in a moment – but for now the Russia/Ukraine conflict is likely to redefine the relationship between kinetic and cyber warfare. It began as expected: an increase in military power at the border and an increase in cyber operations against Ukraine designed to prepare the battlefield. Those cyber operations have continued…
U.S. Security Vendors Launch Critical Infrastructure Defense Project
Government warnings of heightened cyber risk to U.S. organizations as a by-product of the war in Ukraine are almost a daily occurrence. The government considers increased cyber activity aimed at U.S. and NATO organizations ‒ and particularly critical infrastructure organizations ‒ to be a serious threat. CISA has a ‘Shields Up’ page that states, “While…
Russia Blocks Access to Facebook Over War
The agency, Roskomnadzor, said Friday it decided to cut access to Facebook over its alleged “discrimination” of the Russian media and state information resources. It said the restrictions introduced by Facebook owner Meta on the RT and other state-controlled media violate the Russian law. A week ago, the watchdog announced “partial restrictions” on access to…
SecurityWeek to Host 2022 Attack Surface Management Summit Today
SecurityWeek will host its 2022 Attack Surface Management Summit, Presented by Randori, as a fully immersive virtual event today. With the pandemic-induced digital transformation underway, security teams are turning to Attack Surface Management (ASM) tools to continuously discover, inventory, classify, prioritize, and monitor digital assets for signs of weaknesses. In this special virtual summit and…
Shadowserver Starts Conducting Daily Scans to Help Secure ICS
The nonprofit cybersecurity organization is scanning the web for exposed services that use the Modbus industrial communications protocol on TCP port 502, but Shadowserver’s Piotr Kijewski told SecurityWeek that they plan on introducing many other ICS and operational technology (OT) protocol scans in the near future. Shadowserver has been working with national cybersecurity agencies, law…
Enterprise IoT Security Firm Phosphorus Raises $38 Million
Phosphorus was founded in 2017 by Chris Rouland (CEO), Earle Ady (CTO), and Rebecca Rouland (CFO). Chris Rouland is no newcomer to start-ups., having previously founded Bastille and Endgame. He also stood up the X-Force division at IBM where he was CTO and Distinguished Engineer. Phosphorus was born from an epiphany. In 2016 Rouland read…
Security Analytics Firm Securonix Scores $1 Billion+ Growth Investment
The Addison, TX-based company offers a SaaS-based, multi-tenant security analytics, operations and response platform that provides visibility and advanced detection and response. According to Securonix, the massive funding will allow it to make significant investments in talent acquisition across engineering, cloud operations, threats labs, and sales and marketing. “We solve a very tough problem that…
