Security News > 2020 > July

To that end, workplace platform provider Envoy is announcing the open beta of its new product Envoy Protect, a mobile app and suite of tools that offers companies the ability to assess employee health, contact tracing, capacity management and eligibility to enter the workplace, access control within the workplace, and more. Designed with input from hundreds of companies around the world, Envoy Protect helps companies protect the health and safety of employees as they reopen their facilities, ranging from offices to construction sites, factories to schools.

BehavioSec is positioned for strong growth as post-pandemic mobile shifts and evolving cyber threats highlight greater demand for deep authentication and anti-fraud capabilities delivering increased trust without breaking the user experience. BehavioSec's intuitive behavioral biometrics technology meets enhanced authentication demands by delivering zero trust safeguards authenticating individuals based on users' typing patterns, touchscreen activity and cursor movements, beyond vulnerable passwords.

We've seen an ugly trend recently of tech news stories and cybersecurity firms trumpeting claims of ransomware attacks on companies large and small, apparently based on little more than the say-so of the ransomware gangs themselves. Currently, more than a dozen ransomware crime gangs have erected their own blogs to publish sensitive data from victims.

Segra, one of the largest fiber infrastructure network companies in the Eastern U.S., announced the launch of a new enterprise-grade remote office service - Segra's Remote Office LAN. Rapidly changing workforce dynamics have led to increased reliance on remote workers and third-party networks by both employers and employees, leaving corporate infrastructure connectivity in the hands of the public internet. Segra's Remote Office LAN enables an in-office, enterprise-grade experience for remote workers, removing the need for VPNs and split tunneling which often leave cloud traffic unsecured and unreliable.

Joining the flagship Orbi WiFi 6 AX6000 Tri-band Mesh System, this new Orbi Mesh System, with its attractive price point, is designed to make robust whole home WiFi 6 mesh accessible to more households around the globe. Following on the tremendous success of the award-winning Orbi WiFi 6 AX6000 mesh system and the numerous WiFi 6 clients now available from phone and laptop manufacturers, the Orbi AX4200 WiFi 6 Mesh Systems join NETGEAR's industry-leading portfolio of WiFi 6 network product offerings.

Attivo Networks announced new capabilities to its Endpoint Detection Net solution that improve file protection against human-operated ransomware by concealing and denying access to production mapped shares, cloud storage, and selected files or folders. "This advanced protection by the Attivo EDN solution disrupts ransomware's ability to move laterally and prevents unauthorized access to data by concealing production files, folders, removable disks, network shares, and cloud storage."

Aviatrix, the cloud network platform, announced the sixth major release of its software designed for enterprises transforming their IT infrastructure to public cloud. "We knew from previous experience that the transit networking services offered by the cloud service providers did not consistently offer both the advanced networking and security controls we needed or the ability to support the multi-cloud network architecture we envisioned. Aviatrix delivered both and their single Terraform provider made it easy to fit Aviatrix software into our 'automate everything' culture and operational processes."

In a significant milestone in the support of DX, Gigamon announces that the GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware has obtained VMware Ready certification. "We are pleased that Gigamon and GigaVUE Cloud Suite for VMware qualifies for the VMware Ready logo, signifying to customers that it has met specific VMware interoperability standards and works effectively with VMware technologies."

CI Security announced a set of unique partnership integrations with leading Internet of Things and Internet of Medical Things security vendors Ordr, Medigate, and Cylera, combining device security and visibility with 24×7 Critical Insight MDR. Connected medical devices create a unique challenge for healthcare organizations. In hospitals, security risks can translate into patient risks, and while IT security teams are increasingly focused on addressing these risks, they often lack visibility into the security posture of IoMT environments.

eSentire announces its ninth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth, sustained by its industry-defining, cloud-native Atlas platform. During a time of global crisis and rapid shift to highly distributed workforces and cloud-based workloads, the Atlas platform enabled rapid onboarding of record numbers of new customers while delivering multiple new services central to driving eSentire's industry-leading NPS score of 72 percent and net customer retention of over 116 percent.