Security News > 2020 > November
Elastic announced the beta of searchable snapshots, a new capability that makes it possible to cost-effectively store and search more data to drive critical business decisions, enhance revenue, and reduce costs. Lower storage costs - Data can be moved from more expensive, high-performance storage to far lower-cost data tiers while still remaining searchable, which frees up more performant storage for higher-value data.
Announcing the launch of Resilience Insurance, a newly formed program manager with insurance capacity rated "A+" by A.M. Best, provided through Intact Insurance Specialty Solutions' underwriting companies. "Resilience is reinventing cyber insurance by aligning our interests with those of the companies we insure," said Mario Vitale, President of Resilience.
SonicWall announced the expansion of its Capture Cloud Platform with the addition of the high-performance NSa 2700 firewall and three new cost-effective TZ firewall options. The new SonicWall NSa 2700 expands multi-gigabit threat performance to enterprises, MSSPs, government agencies, as well as key retail, healthcare and hospitality verticals.
Uptycs announced a robust update that enhances detection and investigation for on-premises and cloud workloads. The new capabilities enable the continuous capture of rich host data for Linux, Windows, macOS, and containers, as well as cloud provider data for AWS -to ensure the broadest detection coverage possible.
The Syniverse solution enables businesses to deploy internet of things devices and sensors over a flexible network that powers those applications, while providing customers with reliable connectivity and unparalleled global reach. The NodeWeaver operating platform is designed to run artificial intelligence and machine learning enabled IoT applications at the edge.
The need to maintain an increasing array of cybersecurity tools to protect organizations from an expanding set of cyber threats is leading to runaway costs, staff inefficiencies, and suboptimal threat response. On average, SMEs manage more than a dozen different security tools, making it very difficult for security teams to manage and orchestrate.
SentinelOne announced it has raised $267 million in Series F funding led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from Sequoia Capital Global Equities and existing investors including Insight Partners and Third Point Ventures. The significantly oversubscribed round will allow SentinelOne to continue accelerating hypergrowth driven by demand for its Singularity XDR Platform, today's leading solution for complete enterprise protection.
A group of academics from the University of California and Tsinghua University has uncovered a series of critical security flaws that could lead to a revival of DNS cache poisoning attacks. The effectiveness of such attacks has taken a hit in part due to protocols such as DNSSEC that creates a secure domain name system by adding cryptographic signatures to existing DNS records and randomization-based defenses that allow the DNS resolver to use a different source port and transaction ID for every query.
It's notable for its unusual sophistication, according to researchers, evidenced by its multiple modules. The code is specifically taking aim at the Oracle MICROS Restaurant Enterprise Series 3700 POS - a management software suite used by hundreds of thousands of bars, restaurants, hotels and other hospitality establishments worldwide, according to ESET. The attacks have mainly been in the U.S., researchers said - though the initial infection vector is unknown.
Animal Jam, just the latest in a string of attacks on gaming apps, has adopted a transparent communications strategy after stolen data turned up on a criminal forum. The company behind the wildly popular kids' game Animal Jam has announced that hackers stole a menagerie of account records during a breach of a third-party vendor's server in October - more than 46 million of them, in fact.