Security News > 2019 > August

Passion, ingenuity and hard work: The cybersecurity startup story of Israel
2019-08-01 05:15

According to Start-Up Nation Central (SNC), there are currently 400 cybersecurity start-ups operating in Israel. In 2018, they raised over $1.2 billion in 96 rounds of funding. That is more money...

Microsoft is right, mandatory password changes are obsolete
2019-08-01 05:00

Microsoft has recently come out and said that mandatory password changing is ancient and obsolete. This goes directly against everything we were trained to think for the last couple of decades,...

The probability that an EV SSL certificate is associated with a bad domain is 0.013%
2019-08-01 04:45

In 2018, phishing attacks were attempted 482.5 million times, more than doubling the number of incidents in 2017. New research conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology Cyber Forensics...

Companies struggle with the slow, unpredictable nature of AI projects
2019-08-01 04:30

Despite significant investment in AI, many companies are still struggling to stabilize and scale their AI initiatives, according to Dotscience. While 63.2% of businesses reported they are spending...

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Gurucul Network Behavior Analytics solution provides identification of advanced and unknown cyber threats
2019-08-01 04:00

Gurucul, a leader in behavior based security and fraud analytics technology for on-premises and the cloud, announced the Gurucul Network Behavior Analytics (NBA) solution, the industry’s most...

RiskIQ JavaScript Threats Module protects orgs’ high-traffic payment pages from JavaScript attacks
2019-08-01 03:45

RiskIQ, the global leader in attack surface management, announced the launch of RiskIQ JavaScript Threats Module to ensure customer trust in e-commerce by protecting organizations’ high-traffic...

Masergy unveils integrated and bundled options for SD-WAN security
2019-08-01 03:30

Masergy, a leading provider of managed SD-WAN, cloud communications and managed security solutions, announced industry-unique bundles that combine its Managed SD-WAN solutions with advanced...

eGlobalTech launches Auxilium, an AI solution for federal and commercial organizations
2019-08-01 03:00

eGlobalTech, A Tetra Tech Company, is pleased to announce the launch of Auxilium, eGlobalTech’s premier Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution. Auxilium is an open source chatbot solution which...

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Aqua Security releases runtime protection for Pivotal Cloud Foundry
2019-08-01 02:30

Aqua Security, the leading platform provider for securing container-based and cloud native applications, announced the public release of Aqua Security’s runtime protection for Pivotal Cloud...

Confluera launches its Early Access Program for Real-time Attack Interception and Defense platform
2019-08-01 02:00

Confluera, the real-time cybersecurity company, announced that it has raised $9 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed’s Ravi Mhatre with significant participation by John W. Thompson,...