Jessica Couto joins Imperva as VP of North America Channel Sales

Imperva names Jessica Couto as Vice President of North America Channel Sales to help expand the reach and differentiation of Imperva products and solutions through strategic partnerships. Couto will work closely with the ecosystem of Imperva MSSPs, dis… Continue reading Jessica Couto joins Imperva as VP of North America Channel Sales

Query.AI raises $4.6M to scale its go-to-market and engineering teams to meet demand for its platform

Query.AI launched with $4.6 million in seed funding from ClearSky Security, DNX Ventures, and South Dakota Equity Partners. The company will use the funding to scale its go-to-market and engineering teams to meet significant demand for its platform. As… Continue reading Query.AI raises $4.6M to scale its go-to-market and engineering teams to meet demand for its platform

Cyber deals continue with Proofpoint’s $225 million acquisition of ObserveIT

Email security company Proofpoint has agreed to purchase an insider threat detection company for $225 million in cash, a move meant to boost its appeal to larger enterprise clients. Sunnyvale-based Proofpoint announced Sunday it intends to buy ObserveIT, which promises to stifle data loss by monitoring employees, gauging trends in user activity and watching user behavior on client networks. ObserveIT, founded in 2006, is based in Boston with a research and development center in Tel Aviv. The company has raised $53 million in funding from investors such as Bain Capital, Spring Lake Equity Partners and others. In an unrelated deal, Sumo Logic, an event management firm, also announced the acquisition of the security operations startup Jask. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Proofpoint offers an enterprise security service that includes email protection, data loss prevention, mobile security and other offerings. It reported $717 million in revenue last year, and […]

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Sumo Logic acquires JASK to leverage modern apps, architectures and multi-cloud infrastructures

Sumo Logic announced the acquisition of JASK, a provider of cloud-native autonomous security operations center (ASOC) software. The acquisition brings together Sumo Logic’s Continuous Intelligence Platform, including its cloud SIEM and security complia… Continue reading Sumo Logic acquires JASK to leverage modern apps, architectures and multi-cloud infrastructures

Sumo Logic acquires JASK to fill security operations gap

Sumo Logic, a mature security event management startup with a valuation over $1 billion, announced today that it has acquired JASK, a security operations startup that raised almost $40 million. The companies did not share the terms of the deal. Sumo’s CEO Ramin Sayar, says that the combined companies give customers a complete security solution. […] Continue reading Sumo Logic acquires JASK to fill security operations gap

What Capital One’s cybersecurity team did (and did not) get right

There was no months-old, unpatched Apache flaw. A S3 bucket wasn’t publicly accessible to anyone with an internet connection. There was no effort to hide what happened behind the company’s bug bounty program. When taken at face value, the Capital One breach looks awfully similar to other massive security failures that have made national news in the past few years. But while people fixate on the amount of information taken, there are some in cybersecurity circles that see a silver lining in the way the bank has handled the incident. Multiple security experts told CyberScoop that while the incident is clearly severe and there are still questions that need to be answered, actions taken by the Virginia-based bank — who did not respond to CyberScoop’s request for comment — prevented this breach from becoming another example of extreme corporate cybersecurity negligence. “While it’s tempting to knock Capital One for this […]

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Threat Stack and JASK speeding incident response times, improving productivity

Threat Stack, the leader in cloud security and compliance for infrastructure and applications, and JASK, the provider of the industry’s first cloud-native SIEM platform, announced a partnership designed to help security operations teams reduce the time… Continue reading Threat Stack and JASK speeding incident response times, improving productivity

New infosec products of the week: May 24, 2019

Infocyte HUNT Cloud for AWS: Detection and IR for high-growth cloud environments Infocyte announced the availability of Infocyte HUNT Cloud for AWS, a solution combining detection and IR for high-growth cloud environments, unlike traditional endpoint p… Continue reading New infosec products of the week: May 24, 2019

KnowBE4, Autho0, & Guardicore – Enterprise Security Weekly #138

In the Enterprise News, ThreatQuotient expands integration with MITRE ATT&CK Framework, JASK launches a new Heads Up Display for security operations centers, and we have some acquisition and funding updates from Guardicore, Auth0, and KnowBe4! Ente… Continue reading KnowBE4, Autho0, & Guardicore – Enterprise Security Weekly #138