Security News > 2020 > June
Cequence Security announced the general availability of Cequence API Sentinel, a runtime API security solution that delivers continuous run-time API visibility, shadow API discovery, risk analysis, and conformance assessment. "The addition of API Sentinel to the Cequence Application Security Platform extends our API protection beyond automated bot attacks and API abuse to include discovery of API risks introduced by shadow publication, coding or non-conformance errors," said Ameya Talwalkar, co-founder and chief product officer of Cequence Security.
BitDam announced that it is available to small to medium-sized enterprises to provide an additional layer of defense against email-based cyber-attacks. BitDam stops unknown threats, even detecting the 25% of unknown threats that other solutions miss, and patches important security holes in SME email and other collaboration platforms.
Cisco announces the general availability globally of Cisco SecureX, the broadest and most integrated cloud-native security platform, included with all Cisco Security products to simplify and enhance the way customers manage security, on June 30, 2020. To address current and future security challenges, SecureX connects the breadth of Cisco's integrated security portfolio with customers' entire security infrastructure for a consistent and simplified experience.
The Business Logic Recorder is a unique Acunetix feature that is designed to enable effective testing of particular scenarios, especially multi-step web forms, which would otherwise make it impossible for a scanner to reach all areas of a web application. "Many web applications, including those with shopping carts, use multi-step forms," said Nicholas Schiberras, Acunetix Chief Technology Officer.
Corelight has integrated two powerful open-source projects, Zeek and Suricata, into a seamless solution that enables rapid pivoting from Suricata alerts into the rich network metadata extracted by Zeek. "The power of deep integration between Zeek and Suricata is significant. Incident responders often deal with hundreds of Suricata alerts, but making sense of them quickly is challenging," said Brian Dye, chief product officer at Corelight.
NS1 announced that the company has joined the Cisco DevNet SolutionsPlus program, making its enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IP address management solution the first and only software-defined DDI solution available on Cisco's Global Price List. Inclusion in Cisco's DevNet SolutionsPlus program enables Cisco field teams and channel partners to incorporate NS1's DDI and external DNS solutions into their portfolio while providing customers with enhanced network visibility and control.
Together, Bitglass and Duo balance enterprise-grade access control and data protection with the flexibility and seamless user experience needed to support a global, remote, and multi-device workforce. It is crucial organizations adjust their security strategies as employees can download, upload, and share data from personal devices or public networks, meaning data is traveling beyond the corporate firewall.
Ping Identity, the Intelligent Identity solution for the enterprise, announced the availability of its Workforce Identity Solutions in AWS Marketplace. With AWS Marketplace availability, Amazon Web Services enterprise customers can now quickly procure and deploy all of Ping's Workforce Identity Solutions to empower employees to work virtually from anywhere, while providing a centralized authentication service to access their AWS infrastructure.
The CIA acknowledged its security processes were so "Woefully lax" that the agency probably would never have known about the data theft had Wikileaks not published the stolen documents online. Substitute the phrase "Cyber weapons" with "Productivity" or just "IT systems" in the CIA's report and you might be reading the post-mortem produced by a security firm hired to help a company recover from a highly damaging data breach.
AIC and Parade Technologies jointly announced the two companies will align on PCI Express Gen 4 retimer technologies to enable the launch of a pioneering PCI Express Gen 4 appliance ideal for composable GPU, AI, HPC workloads. AIC's server hardware, supporting multiple PCI Express Gen 4 slots in a single rackmount chassis, is a flexible and compact extension box accommodating accelerators such as GPUs, NIC, FPGA and NVMe drives.