Security News > 2020 > October
CISOs are conflicted about how their companies can best reposition themselves to address the sudden and rapid shift to remote work caused by the pandemic, Hysolate research reveals. 36 percent deploy VDI or DaaS. However, of those CISOs that utilize VDI or DaaS, only 18 percent say their employees are happy with their company's VDI or DaaS solution.
The COVID-19 pandemic has largely proven to be an accelerator of cloud adoption and extension and will continue to drive a faster conversion to cloud-centric IT. Global spending on cloud services to rise. The strongest growth in cloud revenues will come in the as a service category - public cloud services and dedicated cloud services.
It's time to change the way we think about cybersecurity and risk management. Cybersecurity is no longer an IT problem to solve or a "Necessary evil" to cost manage.
Agile1 has launched Predictive Analytics Risk Scoring to provide technology executives the foresight to understand cyber risk exposure. The platform is designed to help organizations identify, prioritize and quantify cybersecurity risks with 78% fewer false positives.
OpenDev.org, which hosts the official OpenStack source code, on Tuesday tore down its Gerrit deployment after realizing it had been secretly hacked two weeks ago. It uses Google-built Gerrit to provided a web-based environment for teams to review each others' work, approve or deny changes to code bases, and otherwise collaborate on programming projects.
SlashNext announced the on-device AI mobile phishing defense for iOS and Android with natural language and link-based detection to protect users from the exponential increase in mobile-based SMS phishing attacks. Now SlashNext, customers and partners can benefit from the industry's fastest and most accurate, 2.0 mobile AI phishing defense, protecting users from all forms of phishing across all their communication channels - SMS, email, social networking, gaming, collaboration and search - without compromising user privacy or performance.
SureView Systems is launching SureView Operations, a subscription-based version of its respected command center management system. The Ops platform optimizes operational processes and team response to radically improve the coordination and management of security events, creating better security outcomes.
Montreal's Société de transport de Montréal public transport system was hit with a RansomExx ransomware attack that has impacted services and online systems. On October 19th, STM suffered an outage that affected its IT systems, website, and customer support.
Blackpoint Cyber launched Blackpoint RISK - a cyber liability insurance solution created specifically for its partners and their customers. Blackpoint RISK is available to existing and new clients and provides an additional layer of protection against cyber incidents, including cyber-crime, ransomware, and malicious attacks.
Splunk announced a series of new product innovations designed to help security teams around the world modernize and unify their security operations in the cloud. Led by new, cloud-centric updates to Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Mission Control and the newly announced Splunk Mission Control Plug-In Framework, Splunk's security operations suite enables Splunk customers to secure their cloud journey and solve their toughest cloud security challenges with data.