Styra Adds Declarative Tool to Generate Authorization Policies

Styra this week launched a declarative tool that enables cybersecurity teams to generate authorization policies that can be implemented programmatically by a DevOps team. Company CEO Bill Mann said Rego Policy Builder for the Styra Declarative Authori… Continue reading Styra Adds Declarative Tool to Generate Authorization Policies

Ivanti Extends Alliance With Qualys to Automate Patching Mac Endpoints

Ivanti and Qualys this week announced they have extended their alliance to now include a cloud-based patch management service for both MacOS and more than 70 third-party applications. Nayaki Nayyar, executive vice president and chief product officer f… Continue reading Ivanti Extends Alliance With Qualys to Automate Patching Mac Endpoints

Survey Finds Data Breach Costs Rising

The cost of a data breach is now $3.86 million per breach on average, according to a newly released survey of organizations that suffered a breach over the past year. Conducted by The Ponemon Institute on behalf of IBM, the survey of 3,200 security pr… Continue reading Survey Finds Data Breach Costs Rising

Qualys Extends Cloud Reach Into EDR Realm

Qualys today launched an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) cloud service, while at the same time revealing it has acquired the software assets of Spell Security to improve the quality of the metrics it provides threat hunting teams. Company CEO Ph… Continue reading Qualys Extends Cloud Reach Into EDR Realm

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 Governa… Continue reading Sonrai Security Adds Governance Engine to Tool Based on Graph

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 th… Continue reading Forcepoint Launches Suite to Reduce Remote Access Security Costs

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 apprecia… Continue reading Report Surfaces Web Insecurities

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 re… Continue reading Survey Surfaces Heavy Security Toll From Alert Fatigue

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 establis… Continue reading Cisco Makes Economic Case for Cybersecurity

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 … Continue reading Akamai Identifies Another Massive DDoS Attack