Security News > 2021 > May
ClearDATA announced an expanded capability of their ClearDATA Healthcare Security and Compliance Platform, enabling healthcare organizations and their business associates to automatically detect protected health information in multi-cloud storage buckets. "In today's climate, cybersecurity breaches are at an all-time high, partially due to the industry's accelerating cloud adoption to tackle the unique challenges healthcare has encountered during the pandemic," said Suhas Kelkar, Chief Product Officer at ClearDATA. "This new technology offering enhances healthcare organizations' ability to create secure environments for data that facilitate innovation, collaboration and scalability."
The company will use the funding to scale its go-to-market and engineering teams to meet significant demand for its platform. The platform provides security teams with a simple and cost-effective approach to significantly elevate security investigation and response through real-time access and centralized insights to data across on-premises, multi-cloud, and SaaS applications, without duplicating it from its native locations.
The CMMC Accreditation Body announced the selection of Melanie Kyle Gingrich as the CMMC-AB's first vice president for training and development. In this role, Ms. Gingrich will oversee the day-to-day development and management of the CMMC-AB training, education, and curricula management programs to support and ensure the successful growth of the CMMC ecosystem.
Later this year, Microsoft will release the first big update of the year codenamed "Windows 10 version 21H2". In addition to a new Start Menu, we're also expecting a number of improvements for existing features, such as the Windows Settings app. Below we have outlined the new nifty changes expected to launch this year.
Later this year, Microsoft will release the first big update of the year codenamed "Windows 10 version 21H2". In addition to a new Start Menu, we're also expecting a number of improvements for existing features, such as the Windows Settings app. Below we have outlined the new nifty changes expected to launch this year.
Ireland's health service, the HSE, says they are refusing to pay a $20 million ransom demand to the Conti ransomware gang after the hackers encrypted computers and disrupted health care in the country. Ireland's Health Service Executive, the country's publicly funded healthcare system, shut down all of their IT systems on Friday after suffering a Conti ransomware attack.
To help with this, we have outlined six Windows 10 commands that you can use to troubleshoot your Internet connection and help determine why you cannot reach a website. All of the commands we list below require you to execute them via the Windows 10 command prompt.
Apple says that more than 215,000 iOS apps were blocked by its App Store's App Review team for privacy violations in 2020, while another 150,00 were rejected because they were spamming or misleading iOS users. Ninety-five thousand additional apps were also removed from the App Store for using bait-and-switch tactics where new features and capabilities were added to fundamentally change their functionality after being approved.
Israeli cybersecurity startup Authomize, which has developed an automated, cloud-based authorization governance and management Solution, emerged from stealth mode this week. With $6 million in seed funding from Blumberg Capital, Microsoft's M12 venture fund, and Entrée Capital, Authomize has developed a technology called "SmartGroups", which aggregates data in real-time from multiple IT systems and dynamically infers which it determines are the "Right-sized" permissions.
Code42 announced that it has enhanced its Incydr data risk detection and response product with a prioritized view of the highest-risk data exposure and exfiltration events happening across organizations. The new prioritization model uses Incydr's extensive library of Insider Risk Indicators to transparently score data exfiltration with evidence and file, vector and user context.