Security News > 2020
Idaptive, the leading provider of Identity and Access Management solutions, announced a major update to its Next-Gen Access platform that adds endpoint security and passwordless capabilities. Adaptive MFA adds an extra layer of protection before access to endpoints is granted - leveraging device, network, and user behavior context, Idaptive intelligently assigns risk to each login request, allowing organizations to create dynamic access policies that are triggered when anomalous behavior is detected.
White Ops, the global leader in bot mitigation, announced the release of Application Integrity, a new offering designed to protect enterprises from sophisticated bot-based threats including account takeover, automated account creation, and web scraping. Leveraging the industry leadership the company has fostered with its Advertising Integrity and Marketing Integrity products that today verify the humanity of more than 1 trillion interactions per week, Application Integrity enables security teams to best protect their applications from sophisticated bot attacks.
Trustwave unveiled a new portfolio of consulting and managed security services for Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud, the industry's most comprehensive cloud native security platform designed to govern access, protect data and secure applications. "Prisma Cloud, in combination with managed security services from partners like Trustwave, gives enterprises powerful options for helping ensure their cloud footprint remains secure," said Karl Soderlund, senior vice president of worldwide channel sales at Palo Alto Networks.
Unisys announced that the company is offering $10,000 to participants who can capture data and credentials protected by the Unisys Stealth cybersecurity solution at RSA Conference 2020 in San Francisco. The "Unisys Stealth Capture the Flag" contest will take place on February 26 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced advancements in its data protection offerings with Veeam support for HPE Primera storage and enhancements to HPE StoreOnce backup. HPE and Veeam have partnered to protect customer data for the past decade, and this new support for HPE Primera, together with the just announced Veeam Availability Suite v10, ensures customers' data is always available, recoverable and protected.
Cyware Labs, provider of advanced cyber fusion solutions, announced the release of version 2.0 of the company's product suite. To keep up with the increasing volume of sophisticated threats, security teams must be able to move faster and with more accuracy while achieving greater visibility into their environment and threat landscape.
Google has banned nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. Back in 2018, Cheetah Mobile was accused of turning smartphones into stealthy click farms to engage in ad fraud, leading Google to ban a bunch of its apps from the Play Store.
ElectionShield utilizes BrandShield's technology to protect political campaigns and candidates from a growing range of online threats. BrandShield can provide political candidates with the tools to monitor, detect and takedown these threats, through an AI-Based technology and online threat hunters team.
ClearDATA, the leader in healthcare public cloud security, compliance and privacy, expanded their ClearDATA Comply Software as a Service compliance management product to include Microsoft's Azure Cloud Services. The solution automatically configures over 70 controls across 32 of the most commonly used Azure services for sensitive patient data in healthcare including Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Machine Learning as well as PaaS based services like Azure SQL. ClearDATA is a Microsoft Gold Partner and has offered managed security, compliance and privacy solutions on Microsoft Azure since 2015.
On Thursday Google confirmed it has removed nearly 600 Android apps from the Google Play Store and banned them from its ad services for violating its policies on disruptive advertising and interstitials. Such purges have become a regular occurrence on platforms where third-party developers are afforded some freedom, like Google Play, the Chrome Web Store, and even the iOS App Store.