Funding/M&A
Symantec on Monday announced the acquisition of mobile application security firm Appthority and Active Directory protection company Javelin Networks.
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CyberSN’s Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It’s a mixed bag.
CISO Strategy
All enterprises conduct security awareness training for their employees. But whether this has tangible benefits is debatable.
Management & Strategy
Mandiant founder and cybersecurity veteran brings more than 30 years of public and private sector experience to Amazon’s board.
Artificial Intelligence
TRACE was developed by AMD, Intel, Microsoft, OPAQUE, and TII and contributed to the Linux Foundation.
Compliance
Democrat Senator Ron Wyden released a draft bill this week that proposes big fines for companies misusing the personal information of American consumers, along...
Cloud Security
Security and compliance solutions provider Qualys on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Layered Insight, a company that specializes in protecting container-native applications.
Management & Strategy
Security Teams Are Often Challenged to Run a Proper Security Program With Too Few Resources
Data Protection
Open Whisper Systems on Monday announced that the latest beta version of the Signal messaging app includes a new feature that aims to protect...
Endpoint Security
Microsoft announced on Friday that Windows Defender, the antivirus application shipped with the company’s operating systems, can now run in a sandbox, and the...
Management & Strategy
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
Cybercrime
British Airways owner IAG on Thursday said that a further 185,000 customers may have had their personal details stolen in a cyber attack earlier...
Management & Strategy
As voters prepare to go to the polls in a couple of weeks, it's crucially important that they have information needed to make decisions...
Cybercrime
Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific came under pressure Thursday to explain why it had taken five months to admit it had been hacked and...
Cloud Security
Enterprise cybersecurity solutions provider Check Point Software Technologies on Wednesday announced the acquisition of Dome9, a company that specializes in cloud security infrastructure.Check Point...
Cybercrime
Yahoo has agreed to pay $50 million in damages and provide two years of free credit-monitoring services to 200 million people whose email addresses...
Application Security
The Department of Defense announced on Wednesday that its “Hack the Pentagon” bug bounty program will run all year long and will target the...
Management & Strategy
Firefox 63 was released on Tuesday with a new cookie policy meant to prevent cross-site tracking by effectively blocking cookies and other site data...
Endpoint Security
Cybersecurity solutions provider Fortinet today announced that it has completed the acquisition of insider threat detection and response company ZoneFox.
Audits
A Bloomberg article claiming that tiny chips were inserted in Super Micro Computer Inc. equipment “is wrong,” the California-based server manufacturer says.
Data Protection
Mozilla and ProtonVPN this week announced a partnership aimed at keeping users safe while navigating the Internet.
ICS/OT
ATLANTA — SECURITYWEEK 2018 ICS CYBER SECURITY CONFERENCE — Plaintext passwords crossing the network, outdated operating systems, direct connections to the Internet, and the...
Management & Strategy
The market for virtual security officers is growing. We’ve had virtual chief information security officers for a few years (vCISOs), and we can expect...
Compliance
The Japanese government on Monday ordered Facebook to improve protection of users' personal information following data breaches affecting tens of millions of people worldwide.
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Where your developers sit on the AI adoption scale has a real impact on how you are addressing security risk.
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Contextual defense helps security teams connect the signals, anticipate what comes next, and stop threats before they escalate.
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As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation, so-called virtual patching still comes down to defense-in-depth and strong application security fundamentals.
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