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In the news, AWS beefs up threat detection with Sqrrl acquisition, Microsoft partners Cisco, BeyondTrust now seamlessly integrated with McAfee ePO, and more enterprise security news! Enterprise News Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS, Expanding its Kubernetes a… Continue reading Sqrrl, Microsoft, & BeyondTrust – Enterprise Security Weekly #78
Amazon Web Services announced Tuesday it acquired Cambridge, Massachusetts, threat hunting company Sqrrl. Terms were not disclosed. Sqrrl CEO Mark Terenzoni wrote on the company’s website that he and his co-workers were “thrilled.” “For now, it is business as usual at Sqrrl. We will continue to work with customers to provide advanced threat hunting capabilities,” Terenzoni said. “And, over time, we’ll work with AWS to do even more on your behalf. Thank you for your support. We really appreciate the trust customers have put into Sqrrl over the past five years, and we are excited about the next phase of our journey.” The deal, which has been rumored for weeks, comes as the cloud computing behemoth continues to boost its secure offerings. In November, AWS announced its Secret Region, which can handle data up to the Secret level of security classification — the second-highest level behind only Top Secret. The […]
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It’s the most hackable time of the year! In the news, Paul and John discuss Flexera reimaging open source vulnerability detection, dispelling cybersecurity myths, Amazon to acquire cybersecurity startup Sqrrl, and more on Enterprise Security news! Ente… Continue reading Flexera, Amazon, and ExtraHop – Enterprise Security Weekly #73
Deloitte CyberSOC EMEA Center, SL. closed a strategic agreement with Sqrrl to provide Managed Threat Hunting Services to clients in the EMEA region using Sqrrl’s threat hunting platform. Threat hunting is the proactive search for cyber adversaries that… Continue reading Deloitte launches Threat Hunting-As-A-Service powered by Sqrrl
Most companies are trying to shift their Security Operations Center (SOC) from a reactive to a proactive posture. To do that, the analysts’ reaction to security events must become swift, and investigation of security alerts and incidents must become more efficient. Once high effectiveness is achieved, the analysts can concentrate even more on hunting and detecting threats within the network before they become a problem. Based on the interest our recent article on getting a … More → Continue reading Laying the foundation for a proactive SOC
In this age of advanced persistent threats, waiting for traditional threat management solutions like IDS and SIEM to flag incidents and threats is simply not enough anymore. “We live in a world where the adversaries will persist in getting into an organizations environment, and they only have to be successful once. And, on average, companies are breached for more than 200 days before they realize they are compromised,” notes Mark Terenzoni, CEO at Sqrrl, a … More → Continue reading Getting a start on cyber threat hunting
Negotiation mistakes that are hurting your deals, hiring re-founders, and does VC fund differentiation really matter? Michael and Matt deliver updates from Hexadite, Amazon, Sqrrl, SafeBreach, and more! Full Show NotesVisit https://securityweekly.com/c… Continue reading Sqrrl, Hexadite, and SafeBreach – Startup Security Weekly #44
Negotiation mistakes that are hurting your deals, hiring re-founders, and does VC fund differentiation really matter? Michael and Matt deliver updates from Hexadite, Amazon, Sqrrl, SafeBreach, and more! Full Show NotesVisit https://securityweekly.com/c… Continue reading Sqrrl, Hexadite, and SafeBreach – Startup Security Weekly #44
Buoyed by the growth surrounding cyberthreat hunting, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Sqrrl announced a $12.3 million Series C round of investment on Wednesday. The funding was led by Boston-based Spring Lake Equity Partners, with existing investors Matrix Partners, Rally Ventures and Accomplice also participating in the round. The new round comes as popularity in threat hunting platforms continues to grow. Various analyst groups have emphasized the platforms as a good way for security operations centers to proactively detect threats. According a SANS Institute paper released earlier this year, 88 percent of respondents found threat hunting to considerably reduce the amount of time malicious actors patrolled enterprise networks. “We are giving the tools to the analyst to rapidly understand what is happening in their environment and ask questions based on what they see in front of them,” Sqrrl CEO Mark Terenzoni told CyberScoop. Sqrrl (pronounced “squirrel”) was created in 2012, born out of an NSA database project […]
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