Security News > 2020

Menlo Security, a leader in cloud security, announced its Global Cloud Proxy Platform built on an Isolation Core is integrated with VMware Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management to deliver mobile isolation capabilities. The solution will allow Workspace ONE UEM customers to better protect mobile devices from ransomware and phishing attacks by isolating threats in the cloud and preventing them from reaching the endpoint.

A leader in search and AI-driven analytics announced a deepening of its partnership with Google Cloud to empower enterprises with cloud analytics. A key development of this expanded relationship includes the launch of Embrace for Google Cloud, which enables enterprises to run search and AI-driven analytics directly in Google BigQuery, without moving or caching any data.

Cloudflare, the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, announced that it has expanded the Bandwidth Alliance by partnering with Alibaba Cloud, the data intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group. By joining the Bandwidth Alliance, customers using both Alibaba Cloud Object Storage, and Cloudflare products, will have their data egress fees waived outside mainland China if OSS products are purchased from alibabacloud.com.

GRC, the leader in immersion cooling for data centers, announced the appointment of accomplished critical infrastructure professional and former Dell EMC engineer, Larry Kosch to the role of Director of Product Marketing. After spending more than fifteen years at Dell Technologies in various engineering and product management roles, Mr. Kosch brings to GRC extensive data center experience having led multidisciplinary teams globally to develop data center infrastructure solutions.

STANLEY Security, a global integrator of comprehensive security solutions, appointed Chadi Chahine as Chief Financial Officer on March 18. "Chadi will be a pivotal member of the STANLEY Security team, leading the overall financial strategy and planning while also laying the groundwork for future corporate initiatives," said Robert Raff, President of STANLEY Security.

Thirdwayv, a leading provider of end-to-end connectivity and security solutions for IoT applications, announced it has completed the formation of its Advisory Board with the appointment of five executives from a cross section of industries and disciplines that are fueling the next major wave of connected medical solutions and other safety-critical products and services. The five industry veterans who have joined Dr. Aiman Abdel-Malek, the Thirdwayv Advisory Board's executive chairman, include David C. Klonoff, M.D., who is founder of the Diabetes Technology Society that was key in driving the development of digital diabetes systems globally.

Rockville, Maryland-based startup Sepio Systems, a rogue device mitigation firm, has raised a further $4 million that supplements the Series A round of $6.5 million announced in November 2019. The current chairman of the board, Tamir Pardo, was formerly the director of Mossad, while another advisor is a former CISO with the CIA. The service provided by Sepio is to detect and mitigate any rogue device that has been attached to the corporate infrastructure.

Symantec customers, or rather Broadcom customers these days, were taken offline for a while on Wednesday when the security service's data centers around the planet went down. The Web Security Service platform, acquired when Broadcom hoovered much of Symantec's operations last year, sells web-based site and file scanning for businesses.

Apple has released a slew of patches across its iOS and macOS operating systems, Safari browser, watchOS, tvOS and iTunes. Of the CVEs disclosed, 30 affected Apple's iOS, 11 impacted Safari and 27 affected macOS. Users for their part are urged to update to iOS 13.4, Safari 13.1 and macOS Catalina 10.15.3.

Many U.S. government Web sites now carry a message prominently at the top of their home pages meant to help visitors better distinguish between official U.S. government properties and phishing pages. Here's a sobering statistic: According to PhishLabs, by the end of 2019 roughly three-quarters of all phishing sites were using SSL certificates.