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At RSA Conference 2020, API security leader and creator of the industry's first API Firewall - 42Crunch - announced the launch of its new self-registration feature for their API Security Platform. 42Crunch has made this easy by creating a platform based around the industry standard OpenAPI Specification, and now opening it to the public with self-registration to continue their mission of providing the most comprehensive tools for implementing API security best practices.

BigID, the leader in data privacy and protection, introduced at RSA Conference 2020 first-of-its-kind discovery and security features for managing sensitive crown jewels across unstructured, structured, big data and cloud. BigID's new data security capabilities address critical cybersecurity use cases: empowering customers to protect crown jewel data, discover dark data, automate labelling and policy enforcement, leverage access insight to highlight security vulnerabilities and overexposed data and remediate risk on their most sensitive data.

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Elastic released its integrated security offering, Elastic Security 7.6.0, which builds on the strengths of Elastic Endpoint Security and Elastic SIEM to deliver unparalleled visibility and threat protection through a unified interface. With Elasticsearch at its core, Elastic Security reduces security investigations from days to minutes with near-real-time security monitoring and incident response capabilities.

Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for DevOps, announced at the RSA Conference 2020 new enhancements to its market-leading Software Security Platform to empower more seamless implementation and automation of application security testing in modern development and DevOps environments. Available now, Checkmarx 'Flow' is an orchestration module for the Checkmarx Software Security Platform that tightly integrates with application release orchestration and agile planning tools.

Mozilla has started rolling out encrypted DNS-over-HTTPS by default for its Firefox users in the United States. DoH provides increased security for Internet users, the DoH protocol ensures that DNS queries and DNS responses are sent and received over HTTP using TLS. Mozilla has been working on bringing DoH to Firefox since 2017, and tens of thousands were already using the protocol in September 2019, when it revealed plans to roll out DoH to Firefox users in the U.S., in fallback mode.

Samsung said Tuesday that a "Technical error" caused its website to display other customers' personal information. People who logged on were able to see someone else's name, phone number, address, email address and previous orders.

Code42, a provider of insider threat management tools, announced updates to its cloud data security solution to help security teams closely monitor, detect and investigate data threats caused by high-risk employees. VMware announced the launch of the VMware Advanced Security for Cloud Foundation, which will enable customers to replace legacy security solutions.

While the cybersecurity industry has increasingly focused on the roles artificial intelligence and machine learning can play in thwarting attacks, the humans behind the algorithms remain both points of strength and weakness, says RSA President Rohit Ghai, who kicked off the Tuesday keynote presentations at the RSA 2020 conference in San Francisco. Ghai offered lessons learned from the 2018 ransomware attack against Atlanta, which ended up paying over $17 million for clean-up and recovery after deciding not to give into the demand of the attackers, who had originally demanded a ransom of $51,000 in bitcoin to unlock the systems.

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