Organizations with distributed workforces are increasingly reliant on cloud-based productivity platforms like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace for email, file sharing, and collaboration. Read on to learn how Sophos’ new integration with Google Workspace can help defend against advanced attacks against your business-critical productivity tools. Detect and respond to threats targeting your Google Workspace environments…

Internet telephony company 3CX is warning its customers of malware that was apparently weaseled into the company’s own 3CX Desktop App by cybercriminals who seem to have acquired access to one or more of 3CX’s source code repositories. As you can imagine, given that the company is scrambling not only to figure out what happened,…

While ransomware groups have not spared any industry, attackers have put the healthcare sector at the top of their preferred targets. The surge in hospitals falling victim to breaches has raised concerns among regulators and government officials who have moved to push through new policies and legislation. CommonSpirit, one of the largest nonprofit healthcare systems…

I’ve written about both topics from many angles and now, as the industry becomes more focused on automation as a cornerstone of effective security, the secret to making meaningful progress in both areas is to leverage the symbiotic relationship between them. In other words, using automation to make your people more efficient, and using your…

Endpoint detection and response (EDR) specialist provider Malwarebytes has launched a new managed detection and response (MDR) solution to bring threat and incident detection to the SMB market. SMBs are heavily targeted by malicious actors because they are often considered to be the soft underbelly of opportunity. The MDR solution combines the security firm’s EDR…

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…

Managed security services are undergoing a timely and significant transformation, armed with new hyperscalable technology stacks, hybrid enterprise and cross-cloud protection complexities, and a demand to evolve from 24/7 eyes-on-glass into hands-on customer-integrated early warning and response. If it wasn’t a tired industry cliché we’d probably be adding “next-generation” or NG prefixes to many of…

Gartner recently released its 2020 Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Services. Reading the fifth edition of this report reminds me of how far the industry has come and just how far it needs to go. I remember 2016 and working with Gartner analysts to champion a new category that better described what…