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Paul interviews Marc French the SVP Chief Trust Officer of Mimecast. He also interviews Ofer Maor the Director of Solutions for Synopsys. Ofer talks about the problem Synopsys solves, the deployment for the static analysis tool, and about the open sour… Continue reading Black Hat Dual Interview pt.1 – Enterprise Security Weekly #105
This week, Endace and Ixia partner to secure and monitor networks, Oracle brings autonomous security to identity with Trust Fabric, NetSpectre attack could enable remote CPU exploitation, FireEye boosts endpoint security with MalwareGuard Machine Learn… Continue reading Oracle, FireEye, & Mimecast – Enterprise Security Weekly #101
Mimecast announced it has acquired security software developer Solebit for approximately $88M net of cash acquired. Solebit’s technology is engineered to provide an approach for the identification and isolation of zero-day malware and unknown thr… Continue reading Mimecast announces acquisition of Solebit
Mimecast, a publicly traded email security company, is acquiring cybersecurity software startup Solebit in an $88 million cash deal, the two companies announced Tuesday. Based in San Francisco with offices in Tel Aviv, Israel, Solebit develops software that helps enterprises detect cyberthreats on their networks. The company boasts that its platform does this in a signatureless way and without using sandboxing. It was founded in 2014 by former members of the Israeli Defense Forces, according to its website, and has raised $13 million in venture capital funding. Solebit’s threat detection capabilities are already integrated into Mimecast’s products, according to the announcement. “We’re excited to welcome Solebit into the Mimecast family, as it helps us to offer customers a new approach that fundamentally improves their cybersecurity and resilience efficacy in the most efficient way on the market,” said Mimecast CEO Peter Bauer in a statement. Headquartered in London, Mimecast markets a […]
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The acquisition will allow customers to measure cyber risk training effectiveness by converting behavior observations into actionable risk metrics for security professionals. The addition of security awareness training and risk scoring and analysis str… Continue reading Mimecast acquires Ataata
Cisco sets a new standard for production grade Kubernetes, LogRhythm & Mimecast fuse email security & next-gen SIEM, ServiceNow snaps up VendorHawk to help its customers manage their SaaS spending, Juniper enhances cybersecurity platform, and… Continue reading Cisco, LogRhythm, & ServiceNow – Enterprise Security Weekly #89
Cisco sets a new standard for production grade Kubernetes, LogRhythm & Mimecast fuse email security & next-gen SIEM, ServiceNow snaps up VendorHawk to help its customers manage their SaaS spending, Juniper enhances cybersecurity platform, and… Continue reading Cisco, LogRhythm, & ServiceNow – Enterprise Security Weekly #89
As state and local government agencies fight against an onslaught of threats like ransomware and phishing, a standard cybersecurity strategic plan isn’t enough. Those threats are bombarding agencies at an unprecedented rate — and a good chunk of them are coming at what one county chief information security officer calls “the Achilles’ heel” of any system: email. “It’s users clicking on links, it’s the fact that those bad emails get to us,” said Michael Dent, the CISO for Fairfax County, Virginia. “We’ve got to be able to stop that.” In South Dakota, it’s a similar fight. Jim Edman, the state’s chief security officer, said that with almost 90 percent of incoming email to state employees being categorized and flagged as spam, it makes protecting against threats difficult — especially if something slips through the cracks. “The employees, boy, those people are sitting in front of that computer reading that message […]
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An exploit dubbed ROPEMAKER relies on taking advantage of email design functionality, namely by remotely changing CSS in HTML-based emails after they’ve been sent. Continue reading ROPEMAKER Exploit Allows for Changing of Email Post-Delivery
Nearly 2,000 breaches were analyzed in this year’s Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report and more than 300 were espionage-related. Here are some of the comments Help Net Security received on the report. John Madelin, CEO at Reliance acsn Today’s report highlights that businesses must rethink their protection strategies to guard against cyber attacks. The fact that 88% of breaches identified in the report fall into patterns first identified in 2014 is an illustration of … More → Continue reading Industry reactions to the Verizon 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report