Security News

Gurucul launches new AI/ML behavior analytics for guided proactive hunting of unknown threats
2020-02-24 03:00

The new AI/ML behavior analytics for guided proactive hunting of unknown threats, enriched with MITRE ATT&CK Framework tactics and techniques as well as risk scoring, pre-built playbooks and case management capabilities reduce detection and response times by 67%. Gurucul provides prebuilt threat libraries that include models, queries, data features and playbooks to support a wide-range of threat hunting uses cases like insider threat detection, data exfiltration, phishing, endpoint forensics, malicious processes, ransomware detection and network threat analytics, as well as cyberthreat, human centric and entity related threat scenarios. These prepacked libraries help analysts prioritize base activities and focus on the proactive investigation of new and unknown threat patterns using contextual data.

Snowflake combines its cloud-native data platform with Google Cloud’s AI, ML and analytics capabilities
2020-02-20 01:45

Snowflake, the cloud data platform, announced general availability on Google Cloud, bringing together Snowflake's cloud-native data platform with Google Cloud's capabilities in AI, ML and analytics. Combined with the new database replication feature, Snowflake makes it easy for customers to migrate their data to Google Cloud or keep their database data synchronized between multiple cloud providers for business continuity.

SentinelOne Singularity: AI-Powered XDR platform transforms enterprise security
2020-02-19 03:30

SentinelOne unveiled its Singularity Platform, an industry first data lake that fuses together the data, access, control, and integration planes of its endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, IoT security, and cloud workload protection into a centralized platform. SentinelOne is the first security offering to expand from cloud-native yet autonomous protection to a full cybersecurity platform - with the same single codebase and deployment model - and the first to incorporate IoT and CWPP into an XDR platform.

AI filter launched to block Twitter cyberflashing
2020-02-18 11:35

That AI still needed a set of - ahem - images to train itself on, which Bressler requested via Twitter. Bressler told Naked Security that it will also block pictures of female genitals although no tests of its effectiveness at doing this have yet been made public.

Nightfall AI unveils list of investors and partners with Slack as a DLP vendor
2020-02-13 00:00

Nightfall AI, a cloud data security platform, announced an extended list of investors participating in its oversubscribed Series A round. "We are thrilled to work with this exceptional set of investors. They bring an incredible breadth of experience and will be invaluable partners as we scale the company. They recognize our innovative approach as the industry's first cloud-native DLP and our rapid growth in this new category," remarks Isaac Madan, Nightfall's CEO and co-founder.

Kount unveils AI solution for real-time identity trust
2020-02-12 03:00

Identity Trust is the ability to establish a real-time level of trust for each identity behind every interaction, including payments, account creation, and login events. "To this end, merchants must reimagine their approaches to fraud. Solutions such as Kount's Identity Trust Global Network go beyond machine learning or rules, offering an identity trust data network, advanced AI, and a user experience engine."

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ZeroFOX launches AI-powered Advanced Email Protection for Google and Microsoft platforms
2020-02-11 02:00

ZeroFOX, the leading provider of public attack surface protection, announced it has extended its artificial intelligence powered platform to now include advanced protection capabilities to solve intractable challenges in the cloud email security market and complement existing email security. The ZeroFOX Advanced Email Protection suite includes capabilities that address Business Email Compromise Protection for Google's G Suite and Microsoft's Office 365 platforms, which identifies impersonation-based attacks targeting employees.

To Combat Rogue AI, Facebook Pitches 'Radioactive Data'
2020-02-06 13:18

Neural networks are a type of machine learning that involves using a large set of training data to devise rules that can be used to identify future patterns. To detect if training sets have used Facebook images, a team of the company's researchers has proposed building a system that can be used to find out.

Samsung introduces high-performing DRAM, helps advance supercomputers, AI-driven data analytics
2020-02-06 01:00

Samsung announced the market launch of Flashbolt, its third-generation High Bandwidth Memory 2E. The new 16-gigabyte HBM2E is uniquely suited to maximize high performance computing systems and help system manufacturers to advance their supercomputers, AI-driven data analytics and state-of-the-art graphics systems in a timely manner. "With the introduction of the highest performing DRAM available today, we are taking a critical step to enhance our role as the leading innovator in the fast-growing premium memory market," said Cheol Choi, executive vice president of Memory Sales & Marketing at Samsung Electronics.

Radiflow and Fraunhofer develop ML and AI methods for industrial cybersecurity
2020-02-03 01:30

Radiflow, a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions for industrial automation networks, and the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation, a prominent research institute for applied science in Germany, announced the launch of a joint research project for applying advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence to cybersecurity for industrial automation networks. For this research project, Radiflow and Fraunhofer IOSB will collaborate on developing machine learning methods and artificial intelligence techniques for allowing the autonomous detection of non-compliant and anomalous behaviors on industrial automation networks.