Security News > 2020
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SAP this week released its latest set of security patches, which brings a total of 23 Security Notes, including five that address Hot News vulnerabilities. Another Hot News Security Note released as part of the April 2020 SAP Security Patch Day addresses a directory traversal vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver.
Successful COVID-19-themed fraud attempts perpetrated in the US, since the beginning of the year resulted in a little over $13 million losses, the Federal Trade Commission has shared. Despite repeated alerts from a variety of sources - the FBI, the FTC, the FCC - US citizens continue to fall for COVID-19-themed scams.
Corsa Security announced their Corsa Security Orchestrator, a virtual infrastructure manager for operating virtual machines and the infrastructure to virtualize Next Generation Firewalls at high capacity Internet gateways. Working with the Corsa Network Security Virtualization platform, the Security Orchestrator provides an intuitive interface which simplifies the complex operations associated with running hundreds of virtual NGFW instances.
"What we are seeing is a heroic undertaking by organizations to quickly and efficiently provide security for an unexpected rise in a remote, mobile workforce that will permanently change the way they operate," said SonicWall President and CEO Bill Conner. The platform delivers seamless protection that stops the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points and increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled workforces.
In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.
Entrust Datacard, a leading provider of trusted identity and secure transaction technology solutions, announced the Entrust Datacard Certificate Hub, a portal that allows customers to find, control and automate their public and private certificate deployments via a single pane of glass. "Security-minded enterprises have a critical need to track their certificates and know when they're going to expire. Many enterprises struggle to track their certificates and proactively manage them - their environments have grown too complex and distributed to manage hundreds or thousands of certificates on spreadsheets, which opens weaknesses that attackers prey upon," said Robyn Westerveldt, Research Director, Security & Trust at IDC. "A certificate lifecycle management tool like Certificate Hub helps enterprises deal with complexity by standardizing, simplifying and streamlining certificate discovery, management and automation."
Tech Data announced it has expanded its Cloud Solution Factory offering with the addition of Modern Workplace with Microsoft Secure Score that establishes a security baseline for Office 365 users with automated policy enforcement. "As experts in cloud and solution development, Tech Data is able to simplify the cloud configuration and deployment processes, so our channel partners can serve their customers quickly and effectively while mitigating cybersecurity risks."
Secure Cloud, backed by Phenomenal Care, is a suite of productivity, security and compliance applications built on a secure platform that empowers our customers and partners to establish a Secure Modern Workplace. Driven by a vision to help businesses create a space where employees can collaborate in a secure, effective manner, Zix developed the Secure Cloud to not only manage risks and compliance, but also to accelerate innovation and inspire IT confidence.
SentinelOne, the autonomous cybersecurity platform company, announced new customizable dashboards and reporting capabilities making SentinelOne the center of enterprise security operations. The new capabilities enable organizations to extract maximum value from security data and provide unprecedented context into the state of security operations as well as the ROI on their SentinelOne investment.