Collaborate Disseminate
A report published this week by Strategic Cyber Ventures reveals that more than $5.3 billion of venture capital funding poured into the cybersecurity sector in 2018, while initial public offerings from just four companies raised another $1.4 billion. … Continue reading Investment Dollars Pour into Cybersecurity as Vendor Fatigue Rises
Fresh off raising an additional $18.5 million in funding, Sonrai Security has launched a Cloud Data Control service that promises to make it easier for cybersecurity teams to keep track of what data has been stored where on any public cloud service. S… Continue reading Sonrai Security Unfurls Service to Track Data in the Cloud
Juniper Networks announced today it is extending the reach off the threat protection appliances it provides to include data from third-party sources using a set of custom data collectors. Amy James, director of security product marketing at Juniper Ne… Continue reading Juniper Extends Threat Intelligence Reach
As more applications move into the cloud, it is clear governance has become a major issue. Cybersecurity criminals are now routinely looking for weak controls such as commonly used passwords that they can easily compromise. To provide cybersecurity te… Continue reading Orkus Applies AI to Enforce Cloud Security Governance
Tufin today announced it is extending the reach of its security policy management offerings into the realm of public clouds. Company CTO Reuven Harrison said Tufin Iris makes it possible for cybersecurity teams to automate the process of ensuring the … Continue reading Tufin Adds Public Clouds Support to Policy Management Service
As part an effort to turn New York City into a hub around which cybersecurity startups will be founded, the New York City Economic Development Corp. (NYCEDC) has allied itself with SOSA, a startup incubator, to create a physical location in lower Manh… Continue reading NYC Invests to Become Hub for Cybersecurity Professionals
Blackberry today announced it is spending $1.4 billion to acquire Cylance, a provider of cybersecurity software based on mathematical models, to extend the reach of its security portfolio into the realm of the internet of things (IoT). Blackberry CEO … Continue reading Blackberry Acquires Cylance to Apply AI to IoT Cybersecurity
Alert Logic this week announced it is adding a managed threat management service based on compute resources running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. Chris Noell, senior vice president of engineering for Alert Logic, said given the chroni… Continue reading Alert Logic Adds Managed Threat Intelligence Service
Juniper Networks revealed today cybercriminals are now employing Docker containers to surreptitiously run cryptomining malware on public clouds. Researchers at Juniper Threat Labs have discovered an infection in the wild that hunts for misconfigured p… Continue reading Juniper Networks: Cryptomining Exploit Targeting Docker Containers
IT security is becoming a bigger factor in deciding which software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) platform an enterprise IT organization chooses to deploy. Both Cisco Systems and SonicWall are responding to that changing dynamic by separately anno… Continue reading Convergence of Security, Networking Services Accelerates