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Pyramid Analytics, a leading global provider of next-generation business analytics for the enterprise, welcomed Spencer Johnson as Vice President of North America Sales. Responsible for ensuring that the Pyramid has the necessary people, tools, training, and resources to meet designated revenue goals, Johnson will report to Omri Kohl, co-founder and CEO of Pyramid Analytics.
A leader in search and AI-driven analytics announced a deepening of its partnership with Google Cloud to empower enterprises with cloud analytics. A key development of this expanded relationship includes the launch of Embrace for Google Cloud, which enables enterprises to run search and AI-driven analytics directly in Google BigQuery, without moving or caching any data.
Security provider Stellar Cyber, with the first Open-XDR security platform, announced the latest addition to its Starlight platform's built-in App Store, a new Entity Behavior Analytics app. It provides a unified view of all assets across networks, endpoints and cloud environments by assigning a risk score to each asset based on observed security events and related risk profiles.
A popular analytics platform has been secretly installing root certificates on mobile devices so it can suck up users' data from its 20 or more ad-blocker and virtual private network mobile apps, according to a BuzzFeed News investigation. Some of the apps are no longer available, but BuzzFeed News said it recently traced a handful of apps in the Google Play store to Sensor Tower, including Free and Unlimited VPN, Luna VPN, Mobile Data, and Adblock Focus.
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Facebook is suing the data analytics firm OneAudience for allegedly developing a malicious, social-media-profile-grabbing software development kit and then paying app developers to embed it in their apps. According to the complaint, OneAudience's malicious SDK swiped the data that Facebook users had agreed to share with the app - data that may have included their name, email address, the country where they logged in from, time zone, Facebook ID, and, sometimes, gender.
Facebook on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against oneAudience data intelligence firm over a tactic it used to gather information about users of social media platforms. New Jersey-based oneAudience paid software makers to install "Malicious" software in their apps in order to "Improperly" collect data about people at Facebook and other social media sites, Facebook said.
Gurucul, a leader in unified security and risk analytics technology for on-premises and the cloud, announced Gurucul Unified Security and Risk Analytics, the first cloud-native data science driven platform that unifies key Cyber Defense Center functions to enable contextual, risk-prioritized decisions for automating security controls. It applies security analytics to use cases handled by SIEM, UEBA, network traffic analysis, SOAR, cloud security and threat hunting in one consolidated platform to detect both known and unknown threats in real-time, identify risky user/entity behaviors, and automatically respond to security incidents.
Capps came to Mastercard in 2017 when the company acquired NuData Security, which provides behavioral biometrics tools to help prevent financial fraud. The agency urged enterprises to use more sophisticated techniques, such as biometrics or behavioral authentication, which includes using geolocation data or IP addresses, to help verify a users' identities.