Kevin Townsend

Kevin Townsend is a Senior Contributor at SecurityWeek. He has been writing about high tech issues since before the birth of Microsoft. For the last 15 years he has specialized in information security; and has had many thousands of articles published in dozens of different magazines – from The Times and the Financial Times to current and long-gone computer magazines.

Cloud Security Firm Kivera Raises $3.5 Million in Seed Funding

Australian cybersecurity startup Kivera raised $3.5 million in seed funding from General Advance, Round 13 Capital and angel investors.

August 9, 2023

UK Think Tank Proposes Greater Ransomware Reporting From Cyberinsurance to Government

The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) examined the relationship between cyberinsurance and ransomware, and proposes greater reporting from victims to government, enforced through insurance...

August 8, 2023

These Are the Top Five Cloud Security Risks, Qualys Says

Cloud security specialist Qualys has provided its view of the top five cloud security risks, drawing insights and data from its own platform and...

August 3, 2023

Shield and Visibility Solutions Target Phishing From Inside the Browser

Menlo Security introduced anti-phishing solutions that analyze what users see on a landing page rather than just analyzing the content of an email.

August 2, 2023

Silk Security Emerges from Stealth With $12.5 Million Seed Funding

Silk Security raised $12.5 million in seed funding and is on a mission to break down the silos between security and development with an...

August 1, 2023

SpecterOps Updates BloodHound Active Directory Mapping Tool

SpecterOps announces version 5.0 of BloodHound Active Directory mapping tool with enterprise-grade deployment, usability, and UI.

August 1, 2023

Hacker Conversations: Youssef Sammouda, Bug Bounty Hunter

SecurityWeek speaks to Youssef Sammouda about using cybersecurity research and bug bounties as a way of life and source of income.

August 1, 2023

Two New Vulnerabilities Could Affect 40% of Ubuntu Cloud Workloads

Researchers discovered two vulnerabilities in the Ubuntu OverlayFS module: CVE-2023-2640 and CVE-2023-32629 (together dubbed ‘GameOver(lay)’).

July 27, 2023

Protect AI Raises $35 Million to Protect Machine Learning and AI Assets

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence security firm Protect AI raised $35 million in Series A funding led by Evolution Equity Partners.

July 27, 2023

CISO Conversations: Field CISOs From VMware Carbon Black and NetSPI

SecurityWeek talks to Field CISOs, Fawaz Rasheed (VMware Carbon Black) and Nabil Hannan (NetSPI), about this emerging role.

July 26, 2023

TETRA Radio Standard Vulnerabilities Can Expose Military Comms, Industrial Systems

TETRA:BURST - vulnerabilities in widely used radio standard could threaten military and law enforcement communications, as well as ICS.

July 25, 2023

Nubeva’s Ransomware Key Interception and Decryption Technology Validated in Third-Party Lab

100% key capture rate and successful ransomware decryption shows progress in ransomware defense capabilities.

July 24, 2023

Human Cyber-Risk Can Be Demonstrably Mitigated by Behavior Changing Training: Analysis

While traditional security awareness teaches users how to recognize social engineering, new behavior changing trains the brain on the correct recognition and response to...

July 20, 2023

Security Awareness Training Isn’t Working – How Can We Improve It?

Security awareness training isn’t working to the level it needs to. Social engineering, however, is getting better. Why doesn’t awareness training work, and how...

July 19, 2023