Michael Vizard Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.

Michael Vizard

OpenText Report Shines Spotlight on Malware Infection Rates
A 2025 cybersecurity threat report based on analysis of data collected from tens of millions of endpoints by OpenText shows that the malware infection rate for business PCs now stands at 2.39%, with 87% of that malware being based on some type of variant that was specifically created to evade ... Read More
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IRONSCALES Extends Email Security Platform to Combat Deepfakes
IRONSCALES has extended the reach of the machine learning algorithms it uses to identify email anomalies to now include the video and audio files used to create deepfakes ... Read More
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Report Exposes Soft Security Underbelly of Mobile Computing
Zimperium, this week during the 2025 RSA Conference, shared an analysis of mobile computing environments that finds more than 60% of iOS and 34% of Android apps lack basic code protection, with nearly 60% of iOS and 43% of Android apps also vulnerable to leaking personally identifiable information (PII) ... Read More
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F5 Extends Security Reach to Large Language Models
F5 has extended and added support for web application scanning that is capable of identifying vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs) to its application delivery and security platform (ADSP) ... Read More
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Salt Security Embraces MCP to Improve Cybersecurity in the Age of AI
Salt Security this week at the 2025 RSA Conference made available an early preview of an ability to secure Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that are emerging as a de facto standard for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) models and agents ... Read More
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Proofpoint Leverages AI to Extend Scope of Cybersecurity Reach
Proofpoint has expanded its ability to thwart multistage cyberattacks spanning multiple communications channels while at the same time extending its reach into data security posture management (DSPM) ... Read More
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HPE Extends Scope of Cybersecurity Reach Across Multiple Platforms
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) at the 2025 RSA Conference today added a series of controls for users, devices and applications to its cloud-based network management platform that promise to make it simpler for organizations to enforce zero-trust cybersecurity policies ... Read More
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Bugcrowd Launches Red Team Service to Test Cybersecurity Defenses
Bugcrowd today at the 2025 RSA Conference announced its intent to create a red team service to test cybersecurity defenses using a global network of ethical hackers. Alistair Greaves, director of red team operations for Bugcrowd, said via a Red Team-as-a-Service (RTaaS) offering that a global pool of experts vetted ... Read More
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Blackpoint Cyber Extends MDR Service to Improve Cyber Resiliency
Blackpoint Cyber today at the 2025 RSA Conference unveiled a unified security posture and response platform that is based on the company’s managed detection and response (MDR) service. Company CTO Manoj Srivastava said the CompassOne platform provides organizations the tool to discover assets along with the guidance needed to improve ... Read More
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AppOmni Adds MCP Server to Platform for Protecting SaaS Applications
AppOmni at the 2025 RSA Conference today added a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to its platform for protecting software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Originally developed by Anthropic, MCP is emerging as a de facto standard for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) agents and models. Melissa Ruzzi, director of AI for AppOmni, said ... Read More
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