Security News

An alarming number of SMBs in the US and UK are not prepared for a potential cyber attack or breach, BullGuard warns. One-third of companies with 50 or fewer employees report using free, consumer-grade cybersecurity, and one in five companies use no endpoint security whatsoever.

Adaptiva, a leading, global provider of endpoint management and security solutions for enterprise customers, announced Endpoint Health, its automated endpoint health and remediation solution for clients and servers. Release of the additional health checks comes as Endpoint Health has proven to be remarkably efficient at keeping endpoints persistently up to date.

By leveraging the power of the cloud-native CrowdStrike Falcon Platform and Threat Intelligence at the hands of CrowdStrike's highly-experienced Services team, Endpoint Recovery Services helps customers actively remediate ongoing security threats and rapidly recover from a potential incident while minimizing business interruptions. "Leveraging the power of the cloud, CrowdStrike is able to make incident recovery a quick, painless process for customers. With our innovative technology and leading group of security experts, Endpoint Recovery Services is geared to drastically reduce the average time-to-recovery, without interrupting business operations."

An enhancement to CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager, the new deception feature enables defenders to quickly detect and proactively shut down in-progress attacks. New research from CyberArk Labs examines characteristics and patterns of emerging credential stealing malware families, like Raccoon, which can give attackers the ability to steal secrets from more than 60 different application types.

Idaptive, the leading provider of Identity and Access Management solutions, announced a major update to its Next-Gen Access platform that adds endpoint security and passwordless capabilities. Adaptive MFA adds an extra layer of protection before access to endpoints is granted - leveraging device, network, and user behavior context, Idaptive intelligently assigns risk to each login request, allowing organizations to create dynamic access policies that are triggered when anomalous behavior is detected.

Ransomware-wielding attackers have devised a novel tactic for disabling security protections that might get in their way: they are using a deprecated, vulnerable but signed driver to deliver a malicious, unsigned one that allows them to kill processes and files belonging to Windows endpoint security products. The vulnerable driver they are misusing was created by Taiwan-based motherboard manufacturer Gigabyte, found to be vulnerable in 2018 and later deprecated, but the signing certificate was never revoked.

"The security industry has done a great job of providing tools that are effective at identifying adversaries once they are inside your infrastructure," said Jay Prassl, Founder and CEO, Automox. Automox's modern cloud-native platform enables security and IT teams to automate the fundamentals of endpoint hardening, resulting in a reduction of their corporate attack surface by up to 80%. This approach not only makes corporate infrastructure more resilient to attack, but it also dramatically reduces alert fatigue common in downstream endpoint detection and response tools.

Absolute, the leader in endpoint resilience, announced the company is extending the power of its Resilience solution and patented Persistence technology to a growing ecosystem of leading endpoint security applications. Leveraging its firmware-embedded capabilities in more than 500 million endpoint devices, Absolute is strengthening endpoint resilience for customers by enabling them with the ability to self-heal, or automatically repair and restore, the mission-critical applications they need to ensure are undeletable.

Attacks against endpoints have become more costly, up more than $2 million since 2018. With the rise in BYOD and employees working from home or remotely, endpoints have become more prevalent.

The Crypsis Group, a leading incident response, risk management and digital forensics firm, announced the launch of Hadron, an advanced Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platform that provides...