Sonrai Security Adds Governance Engine to Tool Based on Graph
Sonrai Security today added a Governance Automation Engine to Sonrai Dig, a platform that continuously identifies and monitors the relationship between identities and data that exist within a public cloud. Company CEO Brendan Hannigan said the Governance Automation Engine added to Sonrai Dig makes it possible to maintain least privilege, ... Read More
Forcepoint Launches Suite to Reduce Remote Access Security Costs
Forcepoint today unveiled a pair of cloud services to enable the secure delivery of application services by leveraging network services delivered via the cloud more easily. Ravi Srinivasan, vice president of solution and platform marketing, said at the core of Forcepoint’s Dynamic Edge Protection suite is a cloud security gateway ... Read More
Report Surfaces Web Insecurities
A report published by Tala Security, a provider of tools for securing browser sessions, suggests an increased level of integration between web services has resulted in applications that are significantly less secure than most IT organizations appreciate. Based on an analysis of the 100 websites identified by Alexa Internet, a ... Read More
Survey Surfaces Heavy Security Toll From Alert Fatigue
A survey of 427 cybersecurity professionals published today by Sumo Logic, a provider of a security event information management (SIEM) platform provided as a cloud service, suggests alert fatigue has become a chronic issue. According to the survey results, 70% of respondents have seen the volume of security alerts more ... Read More
Cisco Makes Economic Case for Cybersecurity
Cisco Systems this week is making generally available Cisco SecureX, a free management console through which cybersecurity teams can manage the entire Cisco cybersecurity portfolio, including a suite of Cisco Secure Remote Worker software for establishing virtual private networks (VPN). John Maynard, vice president for global security sales at Cisco, ... Read More
Akamai Identifies Another Massive DDoS Attack
Akamai today disclosed it mitigated the largest packet per second (PPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded on its platform. Aimed at a large European bank, the attack generated 809 million packets per second (MPPS). That attack comes on the heels of a 1.44 terabits-per-second (TBPS) attack disclosed last week ... Read More
RangeForce Revamps Cybersecurity Training Platform
RangeForce today updated its simulation platform for training cybersecurity professionals to make it easier to orchestrate and personalize modules for larger teams with a diverse range of skill sets. Bill Munroe, vice president of marketing for RangeForce, said version 2.0 of the RangeForce Cyberskills Platform will make it easier to ... Read More
Survey Finds Sluggish Cybersecurity Response to Pandemic
A global survey of 6,724 security and IT workers published this week by BitDefender, a provider of a broad portfolio of cybersecurity software, suggests organizations are still struggling to come to terms with the cybersecurity implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, even though it’s clear the volume of attacks has significantly ... Read More
Akamai Discloses Details of Massive DDoS Attack
Akamai this week revealed it mitigated a massive 1.44 terabits-per-second (TBPS) distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that for nearly two hours reached levels of 385 million packets per second (MPPS). Roger Barranco, vice president of global security operations for Akamai, said the attack, which occurred in the first week ... Read More
Orca Security Extends Side Scanning to Additional Cloud Services
Orca Security today announced it has extended the reach of its “side-scanning” services to discover cybersecurity issues that might arise from reliance on trusted cloud services such as continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms and document repositories. Company CEO Avi Shua said many IT organizations assume third-party cloud services are secure ... Read More
