Security News > 2021
A TransUnion research finds instances of synthetic fraud and outstanding balances for suspected synthetic accounts at U.S. financial institutions have declined significantly after the WHO declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. New analysis by Aite Group finds the cost of synthetic fraud will rebound post-pandemic, reaching new highs.
A research into the impact of COVID-19 on physical security purchasing decisions has revealed a sharp increase in the necessity/urgency for businesses to adopt hosted video surveillance and access control solutions. A survey by Morphean revealed that 76% of senior managers in UK, Germany and Sweden have increased their use of video conferencing; 65% have increased their use of office applications; and 70% of those in the security sector are now strongly inclined towards cloud adoption.
The new platform, Trend Micro Vision One, has extended detection and response at its core and raises the bar with new capabilities to help security teams to see more and respond faster. Now, with Vision One, Trend Micro is solving more complex security challenges with enhanced XDR, new risk visibility, new third-party integrations, and simplified response to threats across security layers.
Votiro announced the launch of a cloud-based SaaS version of their Secure File Gateway solutions. The launch of the SaaS solution will provide customers working within or migrating to the cloud with a scalable way to completely eliminate file-borne attacks carried through email, web downloads, and website uploads.
With global interest in decentralized finance peaking, DVP is creating a crowd-testing platform to resolve security challenges and make the DeFi ecosystem safer and more secure with a view to help people leverage the massive opportunities of the sector. DVP - Decentralized Vulnerability Platform - is the world's first decentralized autonomous organization-powered vulnerability testing platform created to solve security issues of DeFi ecosystems.
Circa is launching AI Candidate Matching, to help companies accelerate their success toward building more diverse, innovative, and high-performing teams. AI Candidate Matching focuses on candidate sourcing and matching that reaches both active and passive candidates.
Group-IB unveiled its global MSSP and MDR program that allows partners to integrate Group-IB Threat Hunting Framework and Digital Forensics and Incident Response services, recognized by Gartner, into their offerings. The new Group-IB MSSP & MDR program offers easy integration, flexible "Pay as you grow" model, and significantly reduced integration costs.
A hacker's botched attempt to poison the water supply of a small Florida city is raising alarms about just how vulnerable the nation's water systems may be to attacks by more sophisticated intruders. The nation's 151,000 public water systems lack the financial fortification of the corporate owners of nuclear power plants and electrical utilities.
The new release brings together the capabilities of user and entity behavior analytics, endpoint data loss prevention, digital forensics and insider threat management into a cloud-native platform to empower customers to mitigate the risk of data and IP loss. "Our overarching goal at DTEX is to help our customers better understand their workforces, protect their data and make smarter, more informed business decisions more rapidly," said Mohan Koo, co- founder and CTO, DTEX Systems.
Dynatrace announced it has enhanced its Digital Experience Module to include Session Replay for native-mobile applications. This will provide digital teams with a movie-like view of a mobile user's experience, enabling teams to see every click, swipe, and tap from the user's perspective, and allowing them to optimize mobile apps for performance, feature adoption, and conversions.