Security News > 2020
NetSecOPEN, the first industry organization focused on the creation of open, transparent network security performance testing standards, announced that Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and SonicWall are the first three security vendors to achieve certified performance results through open, standardized testing developed by NetSecOPEN and adopted by the Internet Engineering Task Force. "Fortinet is committed to delivering the best threat protection performance and low latency that enterprises require via our purpose-built security processor technology. We are pleased to report the certified performance of Fortinet's FortiGate 500E Next-generation Firewall, tested under real-world conditions," said John Maddison, EVP of Products and CMO at Fortinet.
CoSoSys, a leading provider of Data Loss Prevention solutions for security and compliance, announced that it had secured a strategic investment from Turn/River Capital, a technology-focused growth and private equity fund. The investment will be used to accelerate product development and enterprise market expansion for CoSoSys' flagship product, Endpoint Protector, which is consistently ranked as the top solution for multi-OS enterprise organizations.
In Q4 2019, Trend Micro delivered the strongest quarter in the company's history thanks to growth from all regions globally and across our product portfolio. Following months of momentum in hybrid cloud, Trend Micro announced the launch of Trend Micro Cloud One, a first of its kind, security services platform designed for organizations building applications in the cloud.
In an effort to further position itself for rapid marketplace growth, ThreatConnect, provider of the industry's only intelligence-driven security operations platform, announces the hiring of four new senior management team members: Miles R. Tappin, Vice President, EMEA; Steve Mariani, VP, Revenue Operations; Daniel Moser, CFO; and Phillip Higgs, VP, Federal Sales. Bryan Hauptman, ThreatConnect CRO said, "This is an exciting time for the company and with these new hires, we will be able to expedite our expansion plan for 2020. We see a tremendous opportunity ahead. And, we feel that by bringing on these gentlemen, we have the right mix of business and technology experience combined with a seasoned approach to management. I look forward to ThreatConnect's future."
Cisco has released fixes to address 17 vulnerabilities across its networking and unified communications lines. The lone critical bulletin is for CVE-2020-3158, a bug caused by the presence of a high-privilege account with a static password present in the Cisco Smart Software Manager tool.
Arctic Wolf, a leading security operations center-as-a-service company, announced the addition of Dan Larson as Senior Vice-President of Marketing. Dan Larson brings more than 15 years of sales, product, and marketing leadership experience to his new role as Senior Vice-President of Marketing.
A ransomware attack has hit a natural gas compression facility in the U.S., the feds have warned. The attack resulted in a two-day pipeline shutdown as the unnamed victim worked to bring systems back online from backups.
Hacking incidents involving email appear to be the most common type of major health data breach being reported to federal regulators so far in 2020. A snapshot Wednesday of the Department of Health and Human Services' HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool shows that so far in 2020, 38 health data breaches affecting a total of about 1.1 million individuals have been added to the official tally.
Julian Assange was offered a pardon by the White House only if he publicly said Russia did not hack the Democratic National Committee, according to the WikiLeaks supremo's lawyer. Assange appeared in the central London court via video link from prison.
Account Takeover is one of the biggest threats that banks are facing today. To make matters worse, legacy anti-fraud solutions are falling short of accurately evaluating the risk.