Security News > 2020 > October
COVID-19 has accelerated the push toward digital business transformation for most businesses, and legal and compliance leaders are under pressure to anticipate both the potential improvements and possible risks that come with new legal technology innovations, according to Gartner. To address this challenge, Gartner lists the 31 must watch legal technologies to allow legal and compliance leaders to identify innovations that will allow them to act faster.
Virtustream announced xStreamCare Services for Security and Compliance, bringing together advanced security management and monitoring, expert consulting services, and its innovative Trust Platform - a unified, security and compliance management platform. Virtustream's latest security solutions provide near real-time visibility into security alerts, intrusion attempts, open vulnerabilities, log analytics, policy management and entitlements across Virtustream's Enterprise Cloud and Healthcare Cloud platforms, enabling enterprises to achieve a more proactive security posture to protect their business' IT assets, applications and data.
Microsoft has warned about a new strain of mobile ransomware that takes advantage of incoming call notifications and Android's Home button to lock the device behind a ransom note. The findings concern a variant of a known Android ransomware family dubbed "MalLocker.B" which has now resurfaced with new techniques, including a novel means to deliver the ransom demand on infected devices as well as an obfuscation mechanism to evade security solutions.
The 100G Lambda Multisource Agreement Group has announced the release of a 400 Gigabit Ethernet specification up to 10 km based on 100 Gb/s per wavelength PAM4 optical technology. Building on the success of its previously published and broadly adopted specifications, the MSA members developed the 400GbE specification to fully address market requirements for 2 km to 10 km reaches over duplex single-mode for both 100GbE and 400GbE. The MSA believes that the 10 km reach specification will be fully interoperable with the 6 km version being developed by another industry standards group.
Windstream Enterprise has added new Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa voice command features to its SD-WAN solution, enabling network administrators to work more efficiently. WE already includes Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa integration in its award-winning OfficeSuite UC® solution.
The nations of the Five Eyes security alliance - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the USA and the UK - plus Japan and India, have called on technology companies to design their products so they offer access to encrypted messages and content. Which is why the seven signatories to the Statement "Urge industry to address our serious concerns where encryption is applied in a way that wholly precludes any legal access to content".
Sourcepoint announces the acquisition of RedBud to provide deeper insights for buyers and sellers of media and data. The acquisition of RedBud's technology stack and its exceptional team of advertising and privacy experts will uniquely position Sourcepoint to become the most fully-featured data privacy, compliance and consent management platform focused on the advertising and marketing technology markets.
Virsec announced the appointment of Jim Sortino as Vice President of U.S. sales. Sortino is tasked with upleveling Virsec's national sales strategy to reach new enterprise and channel-focused customers throughout the U.S. Sortino brings more than 19 years of security and sales leadership experience to Virsec, with a proven track record of increased sales and growth for companies of all sizes, from startups to global organizations.
The "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance demanded Sunday that tech companies insert "Backdoors" in encrypted apps to allow law enforcement agencies the access they say they need to police online criminality. Law enforcement globally has complained of the difficulty encrypted communications poses to criminal investigations.
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