Symmetry Systems Ramps Up Hybrid-Cloud Data Security with $15 Million Series A Funding
ForgePoint Capital and Prefix Capital Double-Down on Data Store and Object Security as Lead Investors Symmetry Systems, provider of cutting-edge Data Store and Object Security (DSOS), today announced a $15 million Series A funding round led by Prefix Capital and ForgePoint Capital, two premier venture funds investing in foundational and transformative technologies ... Read More
Obsidian Security Recognized as Strong Performer by Independent Research Firm
Today, our team at Obsidian Security has been recognized as a Strong Performer by The Forrester Wave™: SaaS Security Posture Management, Q4 2023. We believe such acknowledgment is reflective of the work that has been done to build a team and a product that indeed provides true value to our ... Read More
Navigating SaaS Security in the Financial Sector
Financial institutions are turning to SaaS to meet increasing consumer demand for online experiences. Nevertheless, the shift to SaaS introduces inevitable layers of complexity and risk. Over the past decade, attacks against the financial sector have nearly tripled, prompting significant cybersecurity expenditure–anticipated to reach $195.5 billion by 2029. Despite this ... Read More
Detecting AiTM Phishing Sites with Fuzzy Hashing
Background In this blog, we will cover how Obsidian detects phishing kits or Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) websites for our customers by analyzing the fuzzy hashes of visited website content. This concept draws from prior industry art, as IOCs (ex: SHA-1/SHA-265) and fuzzy hashes (ex: SSDEEP, TLSH) have been used for hunting ... Read More
Detecting Cloud Ransomware with DSPM Anomaly Detection
Introduction Machine-learning (ML) based, anomaly detection systems can enhance ransomware defenses by modeling the behavior of cloud identities (user, group, roles) as they interact with data stores such as AWS S3, GCP BigQuery, Azure Blob storage, and others. In this blog, we’ll explore ML-based anomaly detection and how it integrates ... Read More
Navigating Modern Data Security with Marcus Volz
In the constantly changing corporate and digital landscape of data security and privacy management, the ability to navigate complex datasets and understand the intricacies of securing the data is of utmost importance to modern organizations. Data visualization serves as a powerful tool in unraveling the complexities of data security, enabling ... Read More
Say Goodbye to Shadow Data & Hello to Descriptive Terms
Digital transformation marches on, and with it, the volume of data generated by your organization grows exponentially. As your organization embraces more cloud, container, edge computing, and ephemeral services, the ability to maintain control of data is out of reach of your current tools—despite the universal knowledge that data is ... Read More
5 Security Facts to Consider When Choosing a Content Collaboration Platform
Ask the average person what an organization needs to consider when choosing a content collaboration platform (CCP), and they will spend a second or two deciding if this is some sort of trick question before giving the obvious answers: How well does it work? Is it easy to use? Will ... Read More
