Security News > 2020
"The complexity of managing those identities while keeping them securely connected to the business has created a critical trust gap - in many cases the keys and certificates designed to build trust are instead causing outages and security breaches." Digital certificates and keys ensure authenticity across enterprise user, application and device identities.
Singapore will remain the top investor in smart cities initiatives. These four cities will each see smart city spending of more than $1 billion in 2020.
Devo Technology announced Devo Security Operations, the first security operations solution to combine critical security capabilities together with auto enrichment, threat intelligence community collaboration, a central evidence locker, and a streamlined analyst workflow. This powerful combination transforms the security operations center and scales security analyst effectiveness.
Perimeter 81, a leading Zero Trust network provider for enterprises and organizations, announced a new Secure Access Service Edge platform that combines its Network as a Service offering with advanced cloud security capabilities from SonicWall, a Francisco Partners portfolio company. Identified by Gartner as one of the most promising emerging technologies in enterprise networking, SASE is a cloud-native architecture model that supports dynamic secure access to organizational assets by combining multiple network technologies delivered as a service, including Secure Web Gateway, Cloud Access Security Broker, Firewall-as-a-Service and Zero Touch Network Access with WAN capabilities.
ExtraHop, the leader in cloud-native network detection and response, announced new products and services designed to help midsize enterprises address security maturity, reduce tool complexity, and increase efficiency to better protect their organizations. The new ExtraHop Spotlight service leverages the deep domain expertise of the ExtraHop security analysts and combines it with rich insights derived across customer environments to provide targeted threat investigation guidance for lean security and IT operations teams.
The US Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation charged Huawei with racketeering and conspiring to steal trade secrets from six US firms, in a significant escalation of a lawsuit against the Chinese telecom giant that began last year. Accusing Huawei and its affiliates of "Using fraud and deception to misappropriate sophisticated technology from US counterparts," the new charges allege the company of offering bonuses to employees who obtained "Confidential information" from its competitors.
Merkle, a leading technology-enabled, data-driven performance marketing company, announced the launch of Merkury, Merkle's identity resolution and data platform designed to power the creation of first-party, "Private identity graphs" for both brands and publishers. "These brands will be able to network their private graphs with partners and publishers in a way that increases addressability for all in a privacy safe way. Merkury's mission is to serve as a neutral technology enabler of the private graph, supporting seamless interoperability between brands, publishers, and technology platforms."
BAE Systems has received funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Defense Sciences Office to develop advanced analytics technology that will assist in the detection and deterrence of weapons of mass destruction activity, helping to ensure national security. The first-of-its-kind technology will leverage multiple data sources and uses data fusion, adversary modelling, pattern matching, and machine learning techniques to detect and identify indications of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive threat.
IDShield, a leading North American provider of identity monitoring, theft protection, and restoration technology and services for individuals and families, announced a service enhancement that will protect its members from unauthorized electronic fund transfers from their employer-sponsored 401K, retirement, and health savings accounts. According to recent reports by Investment Company Institute and Devenir respectively, nearly $6 trillion is sitting in employer-sponsored 401K accounts and almost $75 billion in Healthcare Savings Accounts.
McAfee announced its extension of the long-standing partnership with Samsung to protect consumers' personal data and information from online threats. In addition to mobile, the partnership expands to better protect Samsung PCs and laptops users, where it matters.