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
Radware Finds New Era of DDoS Attacks Dawning
A report published by Radware this week indicated the number of malicious distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks rose nearly 75% in the first quarter of 2022. The increase is mainly due to an increase in so-called “micro floods” that are classified as low-throughput attack vectors with throughput between 10Mbps and 1Gbps ... Read More
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Arctic Wolf Aims to Accelerate Cyberinsurance Assessments
Arctic Wolf is making available a tailored benchmark framework for vulnerability and insurability assessments to help cyberinsurers speed up evaluations and quickly determine whether organizations qualify for cyberinsurance. The number of organizations that have taken out a cyberinsurance policy has risen sharply in the last two years as a wave ... Read More
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Automox Allies With Rapid7 to Automate Patch Management
Automox this week at the RSAC 2022 event launched an automated vulnerability identification and remediation platform in collaboration with Rapid7, a provider of a cloud platform for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities. Paul Zimski, vice president of product strategy for Automox, said the combined capabilities of the two companies will ... Read More
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Checkmarx Adds Vulnerability Correlation Engine to AppSec Portfolio
Michael Vizard | | Application Security, AppSec, Checkmarx Security Research Team, code scanning, static code analysis
At the RSAC 2022 conference, Checkmarx this week announced it has added a correlation engine to its application security portfolio that delivers the results of multiple static code and runtime scans in a single graph. Razi Sharir, chief product officer for Checkmarx, said Checkmarx Fusion not only provides more context ... Read More
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Juniper Networks Extends Cloud Security Services
Juniper Networks this week added cloud access security broker (CASB) and data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities to its secure access service edge (SASE) platform. In addition, Juniper Networks announced it has partnered with Dragos, a provider of cybersecurity tools for industrial control systems (ICS) and operational technology (OT) environments, to ... Read More
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CSA Survey Sees Shift Toward Zero-Trust IT Frameworks
Michael Vizard | | Cloud Security, cloud security alliance, Network Security, zero trust, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
At the RSA 2022 conference, The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) shared a survey of 800 IT and security professionals that found 94% of respondents are in the process of implementing zero-trust IT strategies, with 77% expecting to increase spending to achieve that goal over the next 12 months. Zero-trust describes a ... Read More
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Palo Alto Networks Sees Rise in Ransomware Payments
Palo Alto Networks this week disclosed that, in cases worked by its Unit 42 incident response team, the average ransomware payment rose to $925,162 during the first five months of 2022. That average was pushed higher by two multi-million dollar payments, but it’s clear that it’s only a matter of ... Read More
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Cybereason Survey Reveals the Extent of Ransomware Havoc
A global survey of 1,456 cybersecurity professionals conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Cybereason, a provider of an extended detection and response (XDR) platform, found nearly three-quarters (73%) of respondents admitted their organization was targeted by at least one ransomware attack in the last two years, with a quarter (25%) ... Read More
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CrowdStrike Adds Automated Asset Discovery to Cloud Platform
At the RSAC 2022 event this week, CrowdStrike unveiled CrowdStrike Asset Graph, a new graph database it has added to its cloud security services portfolio. In addition, the company introduced a Humio for Falcon service that extends the amount of time that telemetry data can be retained. The company also ... Read More
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IBM to Acquire Randori to Provide More Cybersecurity Visibility
At the RSAC 2022 event this week, IBM revealed that it plans to acquire Randori, a provider of an attack surface asset analysis tool. Chris Meenan, vice president of product management for IBM Security, said Randori employs graph software to visually identify the relationships it discovers using the same tactics ... Read More
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