Security News > 2021

More than a week after Microsoft released a one-click mitigation tool to mitigate cyberattacks targeting on-premises Exchange servers, the company disclosed that patches have been applied to 92% of all internet-facing servers affected by the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. According to telemetry data from RiskIQ, there are roughly 29,966 instances of Microsoft Exchange servers still exposed to attacks, down from 92,072 on March 10.

The WAN continues to extend its growth, with the number of enterprises connecting to over 100 inter-regional sites growing by 50%, from 19% in 2020 to 28% in 2021, according to Aryaka. This is coupled with continued application growth, with the number of enterprises stating that they've deployed over 500 distinct applications growing to 46%, compared to 32% in 2021.

If you have purchased or are thinking about purchasing a self-service password reset tool, one of the most important things you will need to do is make sure that 100% of users are registered to use it. Since the system will be set up automatically without user involvement, employees and other users may not fully understand how to use the system when they lock their account or forget their password.

61% of businesses say competitive intelligence has made a direct impact on revenue - a 17% increase over last year's figure of 52%, a Crayon report reveals. Competitive intelligence teams continue to improve when it comes to initiating strategic action across their organizations.

The global Wi-Fi market is projected to grow from $9.437 million in 2020 to reach $25.244 million by 2026, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 17.8% during the forecast period, according to ResearchAndMarkets. The major growth drivers for the market include increasing need for robust network connectivity and adoption of Wi-Fi solutions in various verticals such as education, healthcare and life sciences, and retail and e-Commerce, BFSI, and IT and telecom.

Neustar announced the launch of Neustar Unified Identity, end-to-end identity management solution that enables resolution of offline to online identifiers by responsibly connecting people, location, and device data. "Our goal with Unified Identity is to bring simplicity and order back to customer data management helping our clients to better manage data between departments and partners using a single, unassailable source of truth," said Michael Schoen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Marketing Solutions at Neustar.

Cyemptive Technologies announced Cyemptive Zero Trust Access, a technology that provides comprehensive secure access to networks from remote locations. Cyemptive informed the Department of Homeland Security and Senate of virtual private network hacks against mainstream firewall technologies in November 2019 and since then has focused on developing a secure remote access solution, resulting in Cyemptive Zero Trust Access.

Action1 announced the release of its new RMM system. Building upon the success of its proven endpoint management platform, Action1 allows MSPs and IT departments to take full control over patch management, software deployment, IT asset inventory, reporting, and remote access.

IBM Security announced new and enhanced services designed to help organizations manage their cloud security strategy, policies and controls across hybrid cloud environments. The expanded suite of IBM Security Services for Cloud is designed to help companies adopt a consistent security strategy across their hybrid cloud environments - supported by IBM specialists with expertise to manage native security controls across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure, amongst others.

With the latest innovations to its architecture, AttackIQ helps chief information security offices simplify the process of evaluating security control performance across distributed environments and accelerate the move from a reactive security program to a strategic, threat-informed defense program with an automated platform, fully aligned to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Enumerating complete kill-chain sequences in this manner provides high-level efficacy when testing modern ML and AI based security controls.