Security News > 2020
Infoblox, the market leader in next-level networking and DDI services, and Nutanix announced that Infoblox Core DDI and Cloud Platform appliance products, which are part of the Nutanix Elevate Program, have been certified as Nutanix Ready. Infoblox will support its customers with the integration of Nutanix and Infoblox NIOS DNS, DHCP, IPAM solutions, including NIOS virtual appliances running on Nutanix AHV and Nutanix Calm support for orchestrated DNS/IPAM workflow.
This investment underscores the importance of quantum safe capabilities to support security communities in the US, UK and Australia. Australian-based QuintessenceLabs is a global leader in quantum cybersecurity recognized for its advanced quantum-safe data protection capabilities, including the world's fastest quantum random number generators, crypto-agile key management, data security policy enforcement, and second generation quantum key generation.
SentinelOne, the autonomous endpoint protection company, announced it has raised $200 million in Series E funding led by global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners, with participation from Tiger Global Management, Qualcomm Ventures LLC, Vista Public Strategies of Vista Equity Partners, Third Point Ventures, and previous investors. The funding will enable SentinelOne to continue accommodating record breaking customer demand and accelerate growth as the world's next great cybersecurity platform.
CyberX announced a new API-level integration with Microsoft Azure Security Center for IoT, enabling joint clients to gain a unified view of security across all their managed and unmanaged IoT devices. The combination of CyberX's agentless security platform and Azure Security Center for IoT provides comprehensive IoT device protection and zero trust security for organizations seeking to reduce risk from enterprise IoT threats as well as from industrial IoT, Smart Buildings, Smart Retail, and more.
Zero Networks unveiled the Zero Networks Access Orchestrator, the first network security platform that automatically defines, enforces and adapts user- and machine-level network access policies to create a continuous airtight zero trust network model, at scale. Zero Networks minimizes these risks, with the click of a button, constraining access in the network to only what users and machines should be doing.
Veeam Software, the leader in Backup solutions that deliver Cloud Data Management, announced that Gil Vega has been appointed Chief Information Security Officer. Vega, whose previous experience includes serving as Managing Director and CISO at CME Group and as the Associate Chief Information Officer & CISO for the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement in Washington, DC, will be responsible for establishing and maintaining Veeam's vision and strategy to ensure its information assets and solutions are adequately protected, and will be pivotal in driving strategies to help customers protect their critical data across multiple environments and ensure regulatory compliance.
Safari will, later this year, no longer accept new HTTPS certificates that expire more than 13 months from their creation date. The aim of the move is to improve website security by making sure devs use certs with the latest cryptographic standards, and to reduce the number of old, neglected certificates that could potentially be stolen and re-used for phishing and drive-by malware attacks.
As a result, thousands of events around the world are being canceled, postponed or turned into online-only events in the wake of the coronavirus and the looming threat of COVID-19. Shopify Unite 2020 developers conference was set for May 6-8 in Toronto and now the in-person portion is canceled and it will be an online-only event.
The web services 'n' security biz said, in a report released today, that three-quarters of all credential abuse attacks it detected in 2019 were targeted at banks' publicly available APIs. Akamai said it had "Observed 85,422,079,109 credential abuse attacks" over two years, spanning December 2017 to November last year.
Google has removed nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for serving up obnoxious, invasive ads that aren't easily "x'd" out of. Google said Thursday that the apps violated its disruptive ads policy - and are therefore also banned from Google's ad monetization platforms, Google AdMob and Google Ad Manager.