Security News > 2021
Pentest People has announced its new Red Team Assessment Service which is designed to help organizations to improve their defences against advanced persistent threats. In a routine penetration test, organizations commission Pentest People's cybersecurity experts to test their websites, applications and IT systems for any weaknesses that could allow cybercriminals to steal information, damage IT systems, or hold data to ransom.
Avira has released an all-new Avira Security for Mac, including a free version as well as Prime for premium features. Avira Security for Mac has been redesigned from the ground up and is built using the latest Apple's Swift, SwiftUI, Combine frameworks alongside with the best in breed Avira protection technologies such as SAVAPI and APC. The app benefits from the latest technology stack to conserve system resources and not slow down the system, all while delivering best-in-class protection.
Aqua Security announced that its cloud native security platform now protects containers and Virtual Machine workloads at runtime on Arm-powered devices. This enables Aqua customers to take advantage of the high density and cost-effectiveness provided by Arm-powered hosts and devices across cloud infrastructure, edge and IoT platforms, including the new AWS Graviton2 instances from Amazon Web Services.
Versa Networks announced that it has made several Versa SASE services available on Versa Titan, the solution designed for Lean IT organizations. Leveraging Versa's unique Single-Pass Parallel Processing architecture found in VOS, Versa Titan delivers Lean IT's most comprehensive integration of SASE networking and security elements in a single software image, adding Secure Web Gateway, Versa Secure Access, Versa Secure Access client, and Zero Trust Network Access to Titan's existing SD-WAN, routing, Next Generation Firewall, IDS/IPS, Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware, and User and Entity Behavior Analytics.
The USA's Office of National Intelligence today released its previously classified assessment of "Foreign Threats to the 2020 US Federal Elections" and found "Some successful compromises of state and local government networks prior to Election Day-as well as a higher volume of unsuccessful attempts". It's described as the intelligence community's collective assessment of attempts to disrupt the 2020 election and to contain "Analytic judgments identical to those in the classified version" but without "Full supporting information" or information on "Specific intelligence reports, sources , or methods."
Cybersecurity innovator Tiberium launched two Microsoft based services leveraging Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender. Founded by Kiwi, Drew Perry, the launch sees the first major step for Tiberium since closing a successful funding round and welcoming experienced security players to the Board at the turn of the year.
To address the increasing sophistication of bot attacks, Kasada has upgraded its platform to provide real-time defense against advanced bots that are left undetected by traditional methods. In its V2 release, Kasada has made several improvements that provide customers with an immediate and long-term approach to bot mitigation, without the need for burdensome maintenance.
A Florida teen accused of masterminding the hacks of several high-profile Twitter accounts last summer as part of a widespread cryptocurrency scam pled guilty to fraud charges in exchange for a three-year prison sentence. On July 15, 2020, Twitter suffered one of the biggest security lapses in its history after the attackers managed to hijack nearly 130 high-profile Twitter accounts pertaining to politicians, celebrities, and musicians, including that of Barack Obama, Kanye West, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Uber, and Apple.
Knoa announced the availability of its UEM product for Oracle Cloud applications. Knoa UEM for Oracle Cloud enables visibility into employee interactions with the Oracle Cloud applications, user adoption during a new rollout, the level of performance delivered to the end-user, the locations of process bottlenecks and the cause of user experience issues with the software.
VMware announced innovations across its cloud management portfolio spanning CloudHealth by VMware and VMware vRealize Cloud Management on-premises and software as a service offerings. "VMware makes this complexity of managing clouds invisible. By providing consistent costing, security, governance, operations and service automation across clouds, VMware enables customers to achieve higher application and business agility."