Security News > 2021 > January
Owl Cyber Defense Solutions announced the acquisition of the Trident Assured Collaboration Systems product line. The acquisition gives Owl a broader range of certified network perimeter defense solutions than any competitor in the market.
The investment will help Dremio expand its engineering centers of excellence around the globe, grow its customer-facing organization, contribute to open-source initiatives, and invest heavily in educating and enabling a growing community of data lake practitioners. Due to its infinite scalability, low cost, and simplicity of management, cloud data lake storage has become the destination of choice for storing high volumes of data.
The investment enables Nisos to expand its marketing and operations, while extending its international footprint. Nisos solutions enable security, intelligence, and trust & safety teams to leverage a world-class intelligence capability tailored to their needs.
Ericom Software announced that Dr. Chase Cunningham has joined the company as its Chief Strategy Officer. Dr. Cunningham previously served as vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, providing strategic guidance on Zero Trust, artificial intelligence, machine learning and security architecture design for security leaders around the globe.
YesWeHack announced the appointment of Michel Ruefenacht as its Chief Marketing Officer. Ruefenacht will lead the global marketing strategy and execution.
Malwarebytes announced Thomas R. Fox, its current chief financial officer, has been promoted to President, in recognition of his significant and diverse contributions since joining the company in 2018. In doing so he has led the refinement and amplification of the company's strategic vision; made critical improvements to a wide range of business systems and processes; rearchitected the company's end-to-end planning infrastructure; and established a vital new operating cadence that has dramatically improved internal alignment and execution across the business.
The ongoing breach affecting thousands of organizations that relied on backdoored products by network software firm SolarWinds may have jeopardized the privacy of countless sealed court documents on file with the U.S. federal court system, according to a memo released Wednesday by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. "The AO is working with the Department of Homeland Security on a security audit relating to vulnerabilities in the Judiciary's Case Management/Electronic Case Files system that greatly risk compromising highly sensitive non-public documents stored on CM/ECF, particularly sealed filings," the agency said in a statement published Jan. 6.
Anaplan announced that Bill Schuh has joined its executive team as Chief Revenue Officer. Schuh joins Anaplan after four years at Medallia, the leader in customer experience and engagement software, where he served most recently as EVP, Global Industry Sales.
Red Hat on Thursday snapped up container and Kubernetes security startup StackRox, a deal that speeds up its ambitions in the enterprise cloud market. StackRox has developed a Kubernetes-native container security platform designed to help both security and DevOps teams enforce security and compliance policies.
Elastic announced the appointment of Ashutosh Kulkarni as chief product officer. Kulkarni will be responsible for leading engineering and product management, with a focus on enhancing the Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security solutions and delivering a best-in-class cloud service to Elastic customers.