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Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition startup that's gobbled up more than three billion of our photos by scraping social media sites and any other publicly accessible nook and cranny it can find, has lost its entire list of clients to hackers - including details about its many law enforcement clients. Clearview, which has sold access to its gargantuan faceprint database to hundreds of law enforcement agencies, first came to the public's attention in January when the New York Times ran a front-page article suggesting that the "Secretive company [] might end privacy as we know it."
Over 40% of privacy compliance technology will rely on artificial intelligence by 2023, up from 5% today, according to Gartner. AI-powered privacy technology lessens compliance headaches.
With privacy laws and data breaches coming into focus in 2019, security leaders are looking for new ways to keep personal information safe. The heightened conversation around data security has resulted in mounting pressure on privacy professionals, who are ultimately responsible for keeping an organization's data secure.
RSA CONFERENCE 2020 - San Francisco - Privacy compliance solutions provider SECURITI.ai has won the title of 'Most Innovative Startup' at the RSA Conference 2020 Innovation Sandbox contest that took place on Monday. The Innovation Sandbox competition allows pre-selected cybersecurity startup finalists to showcase their technologies to a panel of judges and attendees at the RSA Conference in hopes to win the highly coveted title.
The Pentagon is adopting new ethical principles as it prepares to accelerate its use of artificial intelligence technology on the battlefield. The new principles call for people to "Exercise appropriate levels of judgment and care" when deploying and using AI systems, such as those that scan aerial imagery to look for targets.
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, 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 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.
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, 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.