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
Palo Alto Networks Embeds ML Models in Firewalls
Michael Vizard | | Automation, containers, Cybersecurity, firewalls, machine learning, Next Generation Firewall, NGFW
Palo Alto Networks (PAN) today unveiled a series of next-generation firewalls (NGFW) that rely on machine learning (ML) models running inline rather than signatures to thwart cybersecurity threats in real-time. Anand Oswal, senior vice president of product management and engineering for PAN, said while firewalls have been able to invoke ... Read More
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COVID-19 Pandemic Takes Toll on Cybersecurity
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an ideal environment for cybercriminals to launch phishing campaigns intended to enable criminal activities ranging from simple theft of credentials to outright fraud. The depth of the illicit activity, however, is now reaching unprecedented levels. A report from Bolster, which provides a platform that makes ... Read More
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High-Profile Data Thefts Shine Spotlight on Dark Web
Recent ransomware threats leveled at President Trump, Lady Gaga and Madonna have raised awareness of the need to not only better secure data but also devoting more resources to determine what data has been exposed on the Dark Web. The cybercriminals who make up the REvil (Sodinokibi) ransomware gang this ... Read More
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Akamai Tool Detects Suspicious JavaScript Code
Michael Vizard | | CDN, content delivery network, formjacking, Javascript, Magecart, web application, web skimming
Akamai today launched Page Integrity Manager, an in-browser threat detection capability that discovers compromised instances of JavaScript running on a client. Patrick Sullivan, CTO for security strategy at Akamai, said this type of cyberattack is becoming more common following the successes that cybercriminals collectively known as Magecart groups have had ... Read More
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Exabeam Extends Security Reach to Multiple Cloud Services
Exabeam has added support for more than 40 cloud services, including Zoom, to its security information event management (SIEM) platform also accessed via the cloud. At the same time, Exabeam has released a free trial of Exabeam SaaS Cloud, which can ingest and behaviorally analyzes data from any cloud or ... Read More
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Report: More Unknown Devices on Corporate Networks
A report published this week by Sepio Systems suggests the number of devices being attached to corporate networks since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic began has increased sharply. Sepio Systems, a provider of tools for mitigating cyberattacks against hardware systems delivered via the cloud, finds there has been a ... Read More
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Survey Sees Accelerated Shift Toward Zero-Trust Architectures
A shift toward zero-trust architectures appears to be gaining momentum, with a global survey of 500 senior cybersecurity executives published today showing that 40% of respondents have launched an initiative to achieve that goal. In North America, the survey finds there has been a 275% year-over-year growth in the number ... Read More
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Orca Security Raises $20M to Secure Cloud Platforms
Michael Vizard | | agent software, application development, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, DevSecOps, Public cloud
Orca Security has raised an additional $20 million in funding to drive adoption of an approach to discovering cloud security issues without having to deploy agents. Company CEO Avi Shua said the Orca Security platform looks for issues including vulnerabilities, malware, misconfigurations, leaked and weak passwords, lateral movement risk and ... Read More
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The Linux Foundation Takes on Digital Trust With ToIP Foundation
The Linux Foundation announced it will host the Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation, an independent project to enable trustworthy exchange and verification of data between any two parties on the internet in a way that does not require third-party verification. The founding members of the ToIP Foundation include Accenture, BrightHive, ... Read More
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Report: Domains Promoting Resistance to COVID-19 Orders Tied to One Owner
Michael Vizard | | AaronDorr.com, astroturfing, COVID-19, discourse, domain, political advocacy, website
A report published today by DomainTools, a provider of cyberthreat intelligence tools and services, details how one small group of activists is allegedly employing astroturfing techniques to create the appearance of a nationwide grassroots effort through multiple domain sites calling for the reopening of businesses that have been closed in ... Read More
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