Security News

Yaniv Vardi Appointed CEO of Industrial Cybersecurity Firm Claroty
2020-07-20 16:00

Industrial cybersecurity solutions provider Claroty announced on Monday that Yaniv Vardi has been named the company's chief executive officer. The company appointed him CEO "Based on his proven and repeatable success growing companies significantly in the industrial space from startups to mature, profitable enterprises."

IDEMIA appoints Pierre Barrial as President and CEO of the Group
2020-06-30 22:30

The supervisory board of IDEMIA has appointed Pierre Barrial as the new President & CEO of the Group, replacing Yann Delabrière who resumes his previous role as Chairman of the Board. Pierre Barrial will succeed Yann as the Group's President & CEO. He brings over 25 years' experience with multinational and multicultural tech companies serving both the government and enterprise sectors.

Brave CEO apologises for adding affiliate links to URLs
2020-06-09 12:29

The Brave browser has provoked unhappiness among some of its users after being caught redirecting searches to affiliate links that earned it commission. What this means is that Brave users searching for Binance, a cryptocurrency exchange, would have had their query autocompleted so that they ended up on a special version of the Binance homepage that lets the company know that Brave's address bar was the origin of that visit.

Ransomware: Consumers would hold CEOs personally responsible for attacks
2020-06-08 13:19

Based on a survey of 12,000 consumers across six different countries, the Veritas report found that 40% of consumers would hold CEOs personally responsible for ransomware breaches. How organizations should handle ransomware threats is a matter of some inconsistency among consumers.

Jack B. Blount joins Intrusion as President and CEO
2020-05-27 22:45

Intrusion announced that its Board of Directors has named Jack B. Blount to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. "We are excited to have Jack join Intrusion. He is an experienced executive with a tremendous amount of experience," stated Michael L. Paxton, Vice President and CFO of Intrusion.

CEOs and CISOs disagree on cyber strategies
2020-05-20 05:30

There are growing disparities in how CEOs and CISOs view the most effective cybersecurity path forward, according to Forcepoint. The global survey of 200 CEOs and CISOs from across industries including healthcare, finance and retail, among others, uncovered prominent cybersecurity stressors and areas of disconnect for business and security leaders, including the lack of an ongoing cybersecurity strategy for less than half of all CEO respondents.

CEOs, CISOs fear becoming the next big breach target
2020-05-19 13:42

Most CEOs are losing sleep over the prospect of becoming the next big, headline-grabbing security breach victim, according to a new report on global business leaders' cybersecurity priorities from global cybersecurity firm Forcepoint, in partnership with WSJ Intelligence. "At a time when cybersecurity is more strategic to business growth than ever before, it is time senior business and security leaders reassess their cybersecurity strategy to one that enables them to move left of breach," Fischbach said.

ThreatX appoints Gene Fay as CEO
2020-04-29 22:45

ThreatX, the leading provider of SaaS-based web application and API protection solutions, has appointed longtime cybersecurity executive Gene Fay as the company's new CEO. Gene's proven leadership experience will help catapult ThreatX forward, cementing the company's mission to protect complex web application and API environments in today's rapidly evolving threat landscape. "I am excited to lead ThreatX forward to tackle some of today's most pressing cybersecurity challenges that our customers and prospects face as business infrastructures aggressively migrate into the cloud," said Fay.

IDC’s Future of Trust practice helps CEOs implement trust in today’s digital economy
2020-04-24 02:15

The objective of the practices will be to provide context to what is happening in the digital economy - explaining the desired business outcomes, such as engendering trust or becoming an intelligent organization, and how technology can be used to achieve these outcomes. These challenges should be met by addressing the five elements of trust depicted in the Future of Trust framework.

Stripe is absolutely logging your mouse movements on websites' payment pages – for your own good, says CEO
2020-04-22 21:50

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison insists his company's collection of e-commerce customers' site interactions, mouse metrics, and identifiers is solely for fighting fraud - though he allows that the payment platform's disclosure could be better. On Tuesday, developer Michael Lynch questioned Stripe's data collection in a blog post, noting that the biz's JavaScript library, used by web merchants to implement client-side aspects of Stripe's payment system, records browsing activity and reports the data back to the company.