Security News
According to Gartner, SASE is delivered from cloud Points of Presence, that provide various security and optimization capabilities to users. If your business is built on selling cheap boxes that try to pack all SASE capabilities, you are not addressing the true architectural problems SASE is trying to solve.
ACI Worldwide announced ACI Fraud Management in the cloud enables Indian banks to protect the rapidly growing number of Unified Payments Interface transactions across the region. "A supportive regulatory environment, coupled with ever-increasing smartphone usage, internet access and customer acceptance, has powered rapid UPI transaction growth. However, surging transaction volumes pose a complex challenge to banks and financial institutions when it comes to upgrading and maintaining their back-end risk management systems," said Kaushik Roy, vice president and country leader - South Asia, ACI Worldwide.
Onix announced it has signed an expanded agreement with Google Cloud to accelerate its growth and grow customer adoption of Google Cloud products and solutions. Under this agreement, Onix will leverage its world-class services team to drive the adoption of Google Cloud with its current and future customers.
The Moogsoft Observability Cloud delivers DevOps practitioners and Site Reliability Engineers self-service intelligent observability capabilities to begin surfacing actionable insights and performing advanced event management across their digital infrastructure in the time it takes to make a cappuccino. The Moogsoft Observability Cloud empowers DevOps practitioners and SRE teams to continue innovating by providing deeper insight and automation across the process of monitoring and event management.
Wipro announced the launch of its dedicated Wipro AWS Business Group, a unit designed to help customers fast-track their cloud transformation journey on AWS. WABG merges Wipro's diverse industry experience and comprehensive portfolio of services with AWS's industry-leading cloud platforms to help organizations worldwide drive business acceleration, enhance customer experience, and leverage connected insights. The Wipro AWS Business Group will house more than 10,000 AWS-certified consultants, along with specialized teams focusing on business development, talent creation, solution development, and delivery execution.
McAfee announced extended detection and response capabilities with the introduction of MVISION XDR platform, a cloud-based advanced threat management solution with complete coverage across the attack lifecycle, prioritization to protect what matters, easy orchestration and efficient response. MVISION XDR improves security operations centers effectiveness with quick risk mitigation and delivers total cost of ownership for threat response with the inclusion of MVISION Insight's proactive threat analytics.
Orca Security announced the second generation of its cloud security platform, featuring unique capabilities built specifically to respond to the public cloud security and compliance needs of global financial services customers. "The rapid digitization of services coupled with increased cloud adoption opens financial organizations to incredible risk. With Orca Security, they gain the full cloud coverage and insights they need without agents to maximize compliance and security confidence to meet the tsunami of regulations on the horizon."
Exabeam announced a major enhancement to the Exabeam Security Management Platform, enabling organizations to detect improper access of cloud storage objects and defend against threats to cloud-based data, such as attackers exfiltrating sensitive data or hosting malicious files. By ingesting audit data from Amazon Simple Storage Services, Microsoft Azure Blobs and Google Cloud Platform Cloud Storage buckets, Exabeam can distinguish malicious activity from normal behavior and allow security analysts to easily identify and follow attacks on cloud storage objects before they lead to a security breach.
Lucidum launched with $4 million in seed funding from GGV Capital and Silicon Valley CISO Investments. Lucidum is founded by former security and technology leaders at Splunk and backed by nearly two dozen current or former security and technology leaders to solve the ubiquitous and fundamental challenge of asset discovery and visibility that's preventing enterprises from efficiently managing, securing, and transforming technology.
An APT group is starting fires with a new Android malware loader, which uses a legitimate Google messaging service to bypass detection. The malware, dubbed "Firestarter," is used by an APT threat group called "DoNot." DoNot uses Firebase Cloud Messaging, which is a cross-platform cloud solution for messages and notifications for Android, iOS and web applications.