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

Broadcom Extends Scope of VMware vDefend Cybersecurity Platform
Broadcom today updated its VMware vDefend platform to add additional security intelligence capabilities along with a streamlined ability to micro-segment networks using code to programmatically deploy virtual firewalls. Additionally, Broadcom has made it simpler to deploy and scale out the Security Services Platform (SSP) it uses to provide a data ... Read More
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Lasso Adds Automated Red Teaming Capability to Test LLMs
Lasso today added an ability to autonomously simulate real-world cyberattacks against large language models (LLMs) to enable organizations to improve the security of artificial intelligence (AI) applications ... Read More
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Run Security Leverages eBPF to Strengthen Application Security
Run Security today launched an application security platform that leverages extended Berkeley Packet Filtering (eBPF) to secure application runtime environments ... Read More
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Report Surfaces Sharp Increase in Cyberattacks Aimed at Applications
An analysis of cyberattacks made against applications published this week by Digital.ai, a provider of a platform for securely delivering software, finds a 20% year over year increase, with 83% of applications tracked in January now under constant cyberattack compared to 65% a year ago ... Read More
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Report: More Attacks Aimed at Android Devices Configured with Root Access
A report published today by Zimperium, a provider of a platform for securing mobile devices and applications, today finds devices running the Android operating system that have enabled root-level privileges are 3.5 times more likely to be attacked, resulting in 250 times more cybersecurity incidents ... Read More
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Red Canary Report Surfaces Sharp Increase in Cyberattacks Involving Identity
An analysis of 93,000 threats published this week by Red Canary, a provider of a managed detection and response (MDR) service, finds the number of cyberattacks seeking to compromise an identity increased by a factor of four in 2024 ... Read More
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Trend Micro Open Sources Cybertron LLM for Cybersecurity
Trend Micro today announced it will open source a Cybertron large language model (LLM) specifically trained to automate a wide range of cybersecurity tasks ... Read More
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HUMAN Security Applies AI to Combatting Malicious Bots
HUMAN Security this week revealed it is applying artificial intelligence (AI) and data modeling to bot management as part of an effort to provide cybersecurity teams more granular insights into the origins of cyberattacks ... Read More
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Google Agrees to Acquire Wiz in $30B Deal
Google today revealed it has acquired Wiz, a provider of a cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) for $32 billion cash after initially being rebuffed last year ... Read More
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Prompt Security Adds Ability to Restrict Access to Data Generated by LLMs
Prompt Security today extended its platform to enable organizations to implement policies that restrict the types of data surfaced by a large language model (LLM) that employees are allowed to access ... Read More
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