Unisys Adds Visualization Tools to Stealth Platform
Unisys has updated its Stealth platform that automates microsegmentation of networking environments to now include visualization and dashboard tools that make it easier to track an organization’s overall security posture in real-time. Vishal Gupta, chief technology officer and senior vice president of products and platforms at Unisys, said previous versions ... Read More
FireEye Acquires Respond Software to Advance Cybersecurity AI
FireEye Inc., a provider of managed security services augmented by machine learning algorithms, has acquired Respond Software, a provider of a platform that automates security incident investigations, for $186 million. Peter Bailey, executive vice president and COO for FireEye, said the acquisition of Respond Software adds eXtended Detection and Response ... Read More
Palo Alto Networks Surfaces AWS API Vulnerabilities
The Unit 42 research arm of Palo Alto Networks has published a report detailing how 22 application programming interfaces (APIs) across 16 different Amazon Web Services (AWS) platforms can be abused by cybercriminals to surface the identities of the members of the IT team that created them. Jen Miller-Osborn, deputy ... Read More
Sumo Logic Finds Attack Surface Expanding
An annual report published today by Sumo Logic, a provider of security tools delivered as a cloud service, highlights the degree to which security has fundamentally shifted in the age of the cloud. Based on an analysis of data culled from more than 2,100 Sumo Logic customers, the report finds ... Read More
Menlo Security Raises $100M for Security Service
Menlo Security today announced it has raised another $100 million in funding to fuel an effort to better secure cloud environments using the Menlo Security Isolation Platform and Adaptive Clientless Rendering (ACR) technology, which fetches and executes the functions of a web browser on its platform rather than on a ... Read More
JumpCloud Raises $75M to Advance Zero-Trust Security Based on Identity
JumpCloud announced today that it has raised an additional $75 million to advance adoption of a zero-trust approach to managing identity based on a directory delivered as a cloud service. Company CEO Rajat Bhargava said as network perimeters continue to dissolve organizations need to embrace an alternative approach to security ... Read More
Survey Sees AI, Automation Cast Shadow Over Security Careers
A survey of 350 security professionals in the U.S., Singapore, Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom suggests younger cybersecurity professionals tend to be more conflicted about advances in artificial intelligence (AI) than their older colleagues. Conducted by the research firm Censuswide on behalf of Exabeam, a provider of a security ... Read More
HackNotice to Democratize Threat Intelligence
HackNotice announced today it has added a set of free analysis and visualization tools to enable end users to know when their personally identifiable information has been disclosed. The tools, dubbed Risk Explorer, also will be available as part of HackNotice Teams, a threat intelligence platform the company already provides ... Read More
Cybercriminals Shift Tactics Against OT Networks
Most of the focus on security during the COVID-19 pandemic has been on employees working from home, accessing applications in the cloud or running on local servers in an office. However, a survey of 1,100 IT and operations technology (OT) professionals conducted by Claroty, a provider of a security platform ... Read More
Cisco Advances Effort to Simplify Security
Cisco Systems has updated SecureX, a free console it provides for its portfolio of security offerings, to include sample extended detection and response (XDR) workflows along with additional analytics and a refreshed Ribbon interface through which security administrators can manage multiple tasks. Jeetu Patel, senior vice president and general manager ... Read More
