Security News > 2020 > July

The global Unified Communications as a Service market size was valued at $13.8 billion in 2019 and is anticipated to reach $24.3 billion at a CAGR of 8.4% from 2020 to 2026, according to Valuates Reports. The key factors driving the growth of the UCaaS market size include increasing UCaaS demand from large and medium-sized enterprises and the trends towards mobility and BYOD. Factors such as developments in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other emerging technologies will generate ample opportunities for the growth of UCaaS market size.

Using machine learning under the hood and based on over 20 years of fraud detection expertise from Amazon, Amazon Fraud Detector automatically identifies potentially fraudulent activity in milliseconds-with no machine learning expertise required. Amazon Fraud Detector provides a fully managed service that uses machine learning for detecting potential fraud in real time, based on the same technology used by Amazon.com-with no machine learning experience required.

Veritas Technologies introduced new innovations to its Enterprise Data Services Platform to help customers reduce risk, optimize cost, strengthen ransomware resiliency, and manage multi-cloud environments at scale. By extending the core of EDSP- NetBackup-to include the Veritas Resiliency Platform and CloudPoint, Veritas delivers a single platform with enterprise resiliency features and functionality to protect and recover data wherever it resides.

Pulse Secure announced the launch of Pulse Zero Trust Access, a cloud-based, multi-tenant secure access service that enables organizations to provide users easy, anywhere access to multi-cloud and data center applications with Zero Trust assurance. Pulse Zero Trust Access offers users streamlined application access while allowing organizations to govern every request by automatically verifying identity, device and security posture before granting a direct, encrypted connection between that user's device and applications residing in public clouds, private clouds or data centers.

Sonrai Security announced the Governance Automation Engine for Sonrai Dig, re-inventing how customers ensure security in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Kubernetes by automatically eliminating identity risks and reducing unwanted access to data. "Security for public clouds must center on effective governance and security of three critical control points - identities, data and platform - to understand, monitor and minimize risk. Effective solutions will be those that go well beyond simply presenting dashboards of cloud provider tools and bring entirely new identity and data analytics to the mix."

Protecting global brands, international media outlets and the public sector, Cyabra's solution uses advanced technology to identify fake profiles, manipulated images and deepfakes transmitted across the digital realm to root out bad actors. Using machine learning infused with NLP, Cyabra identifies behavioral patterns typical of fake profiles such as bots, trolls and sockpuppets.

Zyxel Communications launched the MPro Mesh system for whole-home WiFi and the addition of two new WiFi 6 products for service providers: EX3510 AX5700 WiFi 6 Gigabit Ethernet Gateway and WX3310 Dual-Band Wireless AX Gigabit Access Point/Extender. All Zyxel WiFi 6 products are part of the MPro Mesh Managed WiFi Solution and are fully-compliant with the EasyMesh™ standard to provide fast, reliable whole-home coverage.

BitDam announced the availability of its new phishing scanner. Phishing attacks are also becoming increasingly sophisticated, making it harder for traditional phishing detection solutions based on reputation and threat intelligence to identify them.

"Whenever a successful connection was made, a network share was mounted, and the VHD ransomware was copied and executed through WMI calls. This stood out to us as an uncharacteristic technique for cybercrime groups; instead, it reminded us of the APT campaigns Sony SPE, Shamoon and OlympicDestroyer, three previous wipers with worming capabilities." The VHD ransomware is written in C++ and encrypts files on all connected disks, the analysis determined.

A handful of Chrome users have sued Google, accusing the browser maker of collecting personal information despite their decision not to sync data stored in Chrome with a Google Account. The lawsuit [PDF], filed on Monday in a US federal district court in San Jose, California, claimed Google promises not to collect personal information from Chrome users who choose not to sync their browser data with a Google Account but does so anyway.