Security News > 2020
Swimlane, an independent leader in security orchestration, automation and response, announced the release of Swimlane version 10.0. Both achievements set new benchmarks for SOAR platforms, significantly reducing mean time to detect and response for security incidents.
Fugue, the company empowering engineers to build and operate secure cloud systems, cites product innovation, growing awareness of cloud misconfiguration risk, and the engineer-led movement to address cloud security with engineering solutions as its primary drivers for growth in 2019. In 2019, the company merged its two products-Fugue Platform and Fugue Risk Manager-into a unified Software as a Service solution that delivers dynamic cloud infrastructure visualization tools and advanced cloud security and compliance capabilities.
Adaptiva, a leading, global provider of endpoint management and security solutions for enterprise customers, announced strong financial results for 2019 along with significant expansion of its executive team in preparation for upcoming product launches and rapid growth in 2020, multiple award wins, and impressive scores in customer satisfaction metrics. Doug Kennedy, a former vice president at Microsoft and Oracle, joined Adaptiva in the newly created position of chief growth officer, while David Langston, a former vice president at DXC and Oracle and a former director at Microsoft, comes to the company as its chief revenue officer.
"We've seen exceptional growth from customers and prospects looking to address the number one risk in their cloud infrastructure," said Balaji Parimi, CEO and founder at CloudKnox Security. CloudKnox continues to add to its growing client roster while demonstrating award-winning product innovation.
White Ops, the global leader in bot mitigation, verifying the humanity of more than 1 trillion digital interactions per week, announced the appointment of Dr. Russell Handorf, former Computer Scientist with the FBI, to Principal Threat Intelligence Hacker. In his new role, Dr. Handorf will lead investigations and operations into dark corners of the open, deep, and dark net to uncover and detail the workings of cybercriminals in an effort to protect White Ops customers-and internet customers on the whole-from malicious activity and sophisticated bot attacks.
It's time to patch your Cisco security solutions againCisco has released another batch of security updates and patches for a variety of its offerings, including many of its security solutions. Techniques and strategies to overcome Kubernetes security challengesFive security best practices for DevOps and development professionals managing Kubernetes deployments have been introduced by Portshift.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson discussed telecoms security with US President Donald Trump as he prepares to announce if Britain will use China's Huawei in its 5G networks, officials said Saturday. In a phone call on Friday evening, the leaders "Discussed a range of issues, including cooperation to ensure the security of our telecommunications networks", a Downing Street spokeswoman said.
Cisco on Friday informed customers that it has patched a vulnerability that allowed unauthorized users to join password-protected Webex meetings. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3142 and classified as high severity, affected Cisco Webex Meetings Suite sites and Cisco Webex Meetings Online sites, releases earlier than 39.11.5 and 40.1.3.
SIM swapping typically involves crooks tricking cellular network support staff to transfer victims' smartphone numbers to the criminals' own SIMs, and then using those numbers to reset passwords, or get two-factor authentication tokens, via text messages, and ultimately access and drain cryptocoin accounts. Admins using Cisco gear in their networks will want to head over to Switchzilla's security portal and check for applicable updates among the latest batch of 28 patches.
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