Mike Lennon

For more than 15 years, Mike Lennon has been closely monitoring the threat landscape and analyzing trends in the National Security and enterprise cybersecurity space. In his role at SecurityWeek, he oversees the editorial direction of the publication and is founder and director of several leading cybersecurity industry conferences around the world.

ForeScout Names Former Intel Security Exec Michael DeCesare as CEO

ForeScout Technologies, a provider of continuous monitoring and mitigation solutions, announced on Wednesday that it has named veteran security industry executive Michael P. DeCesare...

February 25, 2015

Attackers Increase Use of PowerShell, WMI to Evade Detection: Mandiant

Attackers are doing a better job at hiding in the most complex parts of computer operating systems, according to a new report from FireEye-owned...

February 24, 2015

Threat Detection Startup Sqrrl Raises $7 Million to Commercialize NSA-Born Technology

Sqrrl, a Cambridge, Mass.-based big data analytics startup, announced that it has secured $7 million in a Series B founding round. The Series B...

February 23, 2015

Pindrop Security Raises $35 Million

Pindrop Security, a startup focused on combating phone-based fraud, announced this week that it has raised $35 million in a Series B round of...

February 20, 2015

Security Testing Firm Synack Raises $25 Million

Synack, a startup that has built a platform for crowdsourced security testing, announced on Thursday that it has raised $25 million in Series B...

February 20, 2015

Check Point Acquires Stealth-mode Security Startup

Network security firm Check Point Software Technologies announced on Wednesday that it has acquired Hyperwise, a privately held, security startup focused on CPU-level threat...

February 18, 2015

Arabic Threat Group Attacking Thousands of Victims Globally

Kaspersky Lab security expert Dmitry Bestuzhev presents research on “Desert Falcons” at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit on Feb. 17.

February 17, 2015

Hackers Hit 100 Banks in ‘Unprecedented’ $1 Billion Cyber Heist: Kaspersky Lab

A multinational gang of cybercriminals infiltrated more than 100 banks across 30 countries and made off with up to one billion dollars over a...

February 15, 2015

Feedback Friday: Reactions to White House Cybersecurity Information Sharing Initiative

February 13, 2015

FireEye to Enable Customers to Share Threat Intelligence

Platform to Facilitate Broader Sharing of Threat Intelligence Obtained Through FireEye’s Platform

February 13, 2015

Mobile Security Startup Wandera Raises $15 Million

Wandera, a startup that helps protect mobile data from external threats and optimize data usage, today announced that it has raised $15 million in...

February 10, 2015

HP to Acquire Encryption Solutions Provider Voltage Security

Enterprise technology giant HP announced on Monday afternoon that it has agreed to acquire data security solutions provider Voltage Security for an undisclosed sum.

February 9, 2015

PolarSSL Rebranded as “ARM mbed TLS” After Acquisition

ARM Acquires IoT Security Firm Offspark UK-based Semiconductor technology firm ARM Ltd. announced on Monday that PolarSSL, the open source Transport Layer Security (TLS) solution for...

February 9, 2015

Hackers Compromise Business IM Service HipChat

Malicious actors have managed to compromise servers powering HipChat, the business-focused group chat and instant message (IM) service.

February 1, 2015

Anti-Fraud Firm InfoArmor Acquires IntelCrawler

InfoArmor, a provider of fraud and identify theft protection services, has acquired cybercrime research firm IntelCrawler for an undisclosed sum.

January 28, 2015

Suits and Spooks DC 2015: The Agenda.

January 28, 2015

Startup Uses Changes in Power Consumption to Detect Industrial Cyber Threats

PFP Cybersecurity Launches Physics-Based Solution to Protect SCADA Systems and Supply Chains

January 27, 2015

Adobe to Patch Critical Flash Player Zero-day Vulnerability Used in Active Attacks

After saying early Thursday that it was investigating reports of a critical zero-day vulnerability affecting its Flash Player that is being exploited in the...

January 23, 2015