The Makings of a Successful Threat-Hunting Program
Over the last few years, an influx of high-profile industry security issues (PDF) have placed offensive tactics among the top priorities for corporations to help mitigate the risk of a potential attack. With many companies opting to continue remote and hybrid working environments, potential security risks cannot go ignored or be left to chance, and…
Proofpoint Introduces a Smarter Way to Stay Compliant with New Intelligent Compliance Platform
Proofpoint Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced the launch of its Intelligent Compliance Platform, offering enterprises modern regulatory compliance safeguards while simplifying corporate legal protection practices. The platform leverages Proofpoint’s proprietary machine learning engine to provide business leaders with AI-powered collection, classification, detection, prevention, search, eDiscovery, supervision, and next generation predictive analytics…
Traceable AI announces enhanced data security capabilities to address more specific types of API attacks
At Black Hat USA 2022, Traceable AI announced enhanced capabilities to address more specific types of API attacks, including API abuse and misuse, fraud and malicious API bots, all of which contribute to serious data security and compliance challenges within organizations today. These additional capabilities enable organizations to detect, stop and eliminate these types of…
Pipeline Operators Are Headed in the Right Direction, With or Without TSA’s Updated Security Directives
Following the Colonial Pipeline hack — one of the highest-profile attacks against US critical infrastructure to date — in 2021, the Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) released two unprecedented Security Directives, requiring owners and operators of gas and liquid pipelines to implement strict new protections against cyberattacks. On July 21, the TSA…
Cyber Readiness Measurement Firm Axio Raises $23 Million
Axio believes the threat is not the risk – the risk is the business impact of the threat. For most firms, the greater part of cybersecurity effort and budget is targeted at mitigating threats rather than managing risk. While mitigating threats is important, it alone is not true risk management; and is repeatedly demonstrated to…
Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 39 Deals Announced in July 2022
SecurityWeek has also conducted an analysis of the deals announced in the first half of the year. We have cataloged 234 cybersecurity M&A deals, with a surge observed in the first half of June. 11:11 Systems acquires Static1 Managed infrastructure solutions provider 11:11 Systems has acquired managed network and IT infrastructure development and services firm…
Cybrary Raises $25 Million to Tackle Cybersecurity Workforce Training
Cybrary, which sells access to a platform focused on cybersecurity workforce education and training, said the $25 million Series B round was led by its current investors BuildGroup and Gula Tech Adventures. This latest investment brings Cybrary’s total funding to date to $48 million, following its $15 million Series B round announced in November 2019….
Using real customer data in testing environments creates unnecessary risk
A new study polling 1,000 software developers and startup employees found 29% of companies use unprotected production data (real customer data) in testing environments when testing and troubleshooting their company’s software — increasing the risk of exposure in the event of a data breach. Unprotected production data is defined as data that is not de-identified…
Cybersecurity in the TV miniseries Obi-Wan Kenobi | Kaspersky official blog
Obi-Wan Kenobi is set ten years after the proclamation of the Galactic Empire, and nine years before said Galactic Empire left the critical infrastructure facility DS-1 Orbital Battle Station (more commonly known as the Death Star) so scandalously vulnerable that it was attacked and largely destroyed by the Rebel Alliance. I watched the series in…
Microsoft clamps down on RDP brute-force attacks in Windows 11
It wasn’t so long ago that we were wondering what improvements Windows 11 would make in the security stakes. Well, we haven’t had to wait too long to find out. Windows 11 build 22528.1000 and up will tackle one of the more common entry points for network intruders. Namely, trying to prevent the brute forcing…
