Security News > 2021 > March
In a recent report, Trend Micro announced it detected 119,000 cyber threats per minute in 2020 as home workers and infrastructure came under new pressure from attacks. Attacks on homes surged 210% to reach nearly 2.9 billion-amounting to 15.5% of all homes.
The research also validates a pressing need for full-stack observability with added business context to help technologists manage the IT estate, cut through the data 'noise' and observe what matters most to their business. With this added complexity, 85 percent of technologists state that quickly cutting through noise caused by the ever-increasing volumes of data to identify root causes of performance issues will represent a significant challenge in the year ahead. With 75 percent of those polled stating they are already struggling to manage overwhelming 'data noise', technologists are desperate for a unified solution to enable real-time visibility across the entire IT estate.
Key insights 95% of IT leaders believe that client and company data is at risk on email. Data is most at risk on email, with 83% of organizations experiencing email data breaches.
Checkmarx announced the launch of KICS, an open source static analysis solution that enables developers to write more secure infrastructure as code. KICS automatically detects vulnerabilities, hard-coded keys and passwords, compliance issues, and misconfigurations from the very start of the IaC build cycle, allowing developers to easily remediate these flaws before reaching production.
Assured Data Protection announced the launch of its eXtended Detection and Response service, providing businesses and MSPs with a fully automated and managed XDR solution powered by Confluera. The service delivers XDR across multiple data streams and complements existing cloud data backup and recovery systems to provide pervasive cloud data management.
IT asset management company Axonius has raised $100 million in Series D funding, the company told SecurityWeek Sunday. Axonius emerged from stealth mode in March 2018 with a platform that helps organizations identify and secure the devices on their network by leveraging existing security and management tools.
Featurespace introduces Automated Deep Behavioral Networks for the card and payments industry, providing a deeper layer of defense to protect consumers from scams, account takeover, card and payments fraud, which cost an estimated $42 billion in 2020. Automated Deep Behavioral Networks is a new architecture based on Recurrent Neural Networks that is only available through the latest version of the ARIC Risk Hub.
Found among the leaked data are usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, bank account details, healthcare information, and other personal data. This trend of data breaches is quite disappointing when compared to the staggering $120 Billion in global IT security spending; according to Gartner, this number has grown each year rapidly.
Transmit Security announced the release of BindID, customer authentication service that is completely password-free. "Is there anyone who hasn't had a frustrating experience with passwords? Whether it's trying to create and remember multiple passwords, answering security questions, continual resets or even being locked out of important accounts - passwords are impractical, burdensome and among the weakest links in security," said Mickey Boodaei, CEO and Co-Founder, Transmit Security.
The uCIFI Alliance announced the public release of the first unified data model to provide interoperability and interchangeability between connected devices to unlock smart cities, reduce cost and guarantee investments' sustainability. The open-source model targets key smart-city applications such as streetlighting, water metering and distribution monitoring, waste management, parking, traffic monitoring, air-quality monitoring, smart buildings, as well as safety and security.