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.

Dell Technologies today announced an alliance with CrowdStrike as part of a larger initiative to expand the cybersecurity services it provides. Under the terms of the alliance with CrowdStrike, Dell has agreed to resell the CrowdStrike Falcon platform to customers. In addition, Dell is adding a Managed Detection and Response ... Read More

Palo Alto Networks today revealed it is using artificial intelligence to automate the management of its secure access service edge (SASE) platform. In addition, the company is adding a Prisma command center infused with machine learning algorithms to monitor the software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) that the company’s SASE platform ... Read More

Camelot this week launched a Secure360 cybersecurity platform that enables its cybersecurity team to leverage machine learning algorithms to perform vulnerability and assessments, cyberthreat hunting and cyberthreat intelligence analysis. Camelot CEO Stanford Oliver said the overall goal is to identify and remediate issues before a cybersecurity incident occurs. The Secure360 ... Read More

GrammaTech this week updated its CodeSentry software composition analysis (SCA) tool to make it simpler to identify specific types of vulnerabilities within application binaries. In addition, the company is also now making CodeSentry 4.2 available in three editions, starting with a software bill of materials (SBOM) edition that is available ... Read More

Orca Security this week added attack path analysis capabilities to its cloud security platform as part of an effort to make it easier to identify weaknesses that cybercriminals might exploit, including threats spanning multiple accounts and cloud service providers. Company CEO Avi Shua said this latest addition to the Orca ... Read More

Palo Alto Networks this week revealed it added a threat detection and response module to its Cortex extended security intelligence and automation management (XSIAM) platform that uses machine learning algorithms to surface anomalous activity based on identity and user behavior. Gonen Fink, senior vice president for Cortex Products at Palo ... Read More

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced its intent to acquire Axis Security, a provider of a secure service edge (SSE) platform. The acquisition is part of HPE’s effort to extend the integrated software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and network firewall offering that HPE makes available via its Aruba business unit. The ... Read More

1Password announced today general availability of a single sign-on (SSO) capability that makes sure secrets are kept secure by leveraging keys that are stored on an end user’s device. The Unlock with Single Sign-On capability requires two different keys to decrypt secrets, such as passwords, that are stored in the ... Read More

Akamai Technologies today extended the reach of its microsegmentation platform by adding support for an agentless approach to secure internet-of-things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) devices. In addition, the company is launching an Akamai Hunt security service that leverages the Akamai Guardicore Segmentation platform to surface cybersecurity threats. Microsegmentation limits ... Read More

Cowbell this week added a free 24/7 managed security service for organizations that take out a cyberinsurance policy to help reduce the cost of a cybersecurity breach. Manu Singh, vice president of risk engineering at Cowbell, said Cowbell 365 spans everything from working with policyholders to improve their overall cybersecurity ... Read More