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To unclog the network, the bank took the drastic step of blocking all traffic from China. News of the attack is surfacing just as the bank's new president, Mauricio Claver-Carone, seeks to leverage his hawkish views on China from his time in the Trump administration to outmaneuver those in Washington and beyond still fuming over his politically charged election last year.
Argon, an Israel-based company that provides solutions for securing the software development process, on Tuesday announced emerging from stealth mode. The company has developed a solution that provides visibility, security and integrity capabilities to help DevOps and security teams ensure that their development environment has not been compromised.
MorganFranklin Consulting announced the addition of Matt DeFrain to serve as the senior director of cybersecurity business development for the company's cybersecurity practice. Matt is a cybersecurity, operational resilience and crisis management leader who will help guide MorganFranklin clients across industries to improve their cybersecurity postures in the midst of increasing threats.
The funds will be used to accelerate product development and global market expansion for the company's cyber attack infrastructure identification and blocking technology. "HYAS turns the table on attackers by exposing and blocking their infrastructure, and communication channels," said Dave Ratner, CEO, HYAS. "This new round of financial support and the deep expertise of our new and existing partners will help us accelerate the execution of our vision on a global scale."
Google and the Linux Foundation this week announced the prioritizing of funds to allow long-time Linux kernel maintainers Gustavo Silva and Nathan Chancellor to focus on improving the security of the platform. The pervasive Linux operating system, according to a recent report from the Linux Foundation's Open Source Security Foundation and the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, needs additional work on security.
Google and the Linux Foundation announced they are prioritizing funds to underwrite two full-time maintainers for Linux kernel security development, Gustavo Silva and Nathan Chancellor. While there are thousands of Linux kernel developers, all of whom take security into consideration as the due course of their work, this contribution from Google to underwrite two full-time Linux security maintainers signals the importance of security in the ongoing sustainability of open source software.
Ping Identity welcomed Peter Burke as the new Senior Vice President of Research and Development. Burke will drive product strategy and development across all Ping solutions, helping to further accelerate identity security and make access management simple for businesses and the consumers they serve.
C3 AI announced the release of major enhancements to its enterprise AI application development platform and AI applications designed to further accelerate digital transformation. Over the past decade, C3 AI has invested continuously in the C3 AI Suite, its open, secure, and multi-cloud enterprise AI platform that leverages a model-driven architecture, enabling end-to-end enterprise AI including data integration, model development, MLOps, application development, and model governance and maintenance.
Purdue University and MITRE are combining their expertise and capabilities to form a new public-private partnership focusing on key areas of national safety and security. Purdue will join MITRE as one of its select academic vision partners.
The Company's patented platform integrates easily within existing security infrastructure to deliver targeted coaching that teaches employees how to identify and remediate cyberattacks while providing security teams with insights that help them better understand the human element of their organization's security posture. SecurityAdvisor's deep integrations with leading cybersecurity vendors, including CrowdStrike, provide visibility across the entire organization for security teams and quantifies security teams' ROI. SecurityAdvisor will use the capital to support product development and drive market awareness of its innovative offering amongst enterprise security leaders.