Security News > 2020 > June

As the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the health of people and businesses across every sector, middle market companies that have built resiliency into their business through digital transformation have more tools to endure disruption. "A crisis like the pandemic can lead some organizations to pause or de-emphasize innovation," said Malcolm Cohron, National Digital Transformation Services Leader, BDO Digital.

There was a 37 percent increase worldwide in enterprise mobile phishing encounter rate between the fourth quarter of 2019 and the first quarter of 2020, according to Lookout. The report also shows that unmitigated mobile phishing threats could cost organizations with 10,000 mobile devices as much as $35 million per incident, and up to $150 million for organizations with 50,000 mobile devices.

Facebook will hide ads bought by state-owned media outlets from its US-based users, as part of its plan "To provide an extra layer of protection against various types of foreign influence in the public debate ahead of the November 2020 election in the US.". Explained in a post by head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher, the plan will see The Social Network™ apply labels to content from state-controlled media outlets and any ads they buy, then block the ads in the USA anyway.

Lumu, the creators of Continuous Compromise Assessment cybersecurity model that empowers organizations to measure compromise in real-time, announced a new Compromise Context capability that offers robust contextual intelligence around confirmed compromise instances, enabling security teams to deploy accelerated incident response efforts with precision. "Security teams have long relied on conventional Indicators of Compromise as their primary vehicle to detect a network intrusion or other malicious activities. However, as the word 'indicator' implies, it's an inexact science at best that often leaves you with more questions than answers," said Ricardo Villadiego, founder and CEO of Lumu.

Kudelski Security, the cybersecurity division within the Kudelski Group, announced the launch of its dedicated Microsoft Security services, enabling clients to effectively consume and configure Microsoft security capabilities and add additional monitoring to their Microsoft 365 and Azure environments. In addition to providing a dedicated Microsoft focus, Kudelski Security offers clients a combination of proprietary, native cloud security monitoring capabilities as well as teams of experienced engineers to help deploy, operate, and maintain comprehensive cybersecurity programs.

Adaptiva announced OneSite Cloud as enterprises accelerate digital transformation and the move to modern management. "We've worked closely with our customers to design solutions around their emerging needs, and OneSite Cloud effectively delivers enterprise agility while unburdening the existing corporate networks," said Adaptiva CEO and Founder Deepak Kumar.

BigID introduced the first Application Development Framework for any data discovery platform on the market. The BigID App Development Framework empowers customers and partners to get more value from their data by building custom application functionality on top of BigID's market-leading data discovery platform.

Nyxeia announced new releases of its Information Governance Suite products. Policy products used for information search, enhancement, and full lifecycle governance.

Trustgrid announced an extension of their leading Zero Trust software-defined perimeter platform to include agents for roaming end points. The newly released Mac and PC agents address the growing demand for secure connectivity between remote end users and enterprise applications that require access from personal devices in home offices.

Laplink Software announced its PCmover Enterprise solution now supports local Active Directory profile migrations to Azure Active Directory users. This is something that is not currently supported by Microsoft and IT professionals can now leverage PCmover Enterprise to streamline local Active Directory profile transfers and save hours of time per new PC deployed or per existing PC joined to Azure Active Directory.