Security News

Automox raises $30 million to automate endpoint hardening
2020-02-05 23:30

"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 is strengthening endpoint resilience for its customers
2020-02-03 03:30

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.

Cyberattacks against endpoints rising, reaching $9 million per attack in 2019
2020-01-29 14:07

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.

Crypsis Group launches Hadron, a new endpoint detection and response platform
2019-12-24 04:00

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...

IGEL integrates the AMD Secure Processor on IGEL UD7 endpoints
2019-12-05 00:15

IGEL, provider of the next-gen edge OS for cloud workspaces, announced that it has integrated the AMD Secure Processor on IGEL UD7 endpoints, effectively creating a dedicated ‘chain of trust’...

Healthcare spikes data breach fever, endpoint threat detections grow 60%
2019-11-18 05:30

The healthcare industry has been overwhelmingly targeted by Trojan malware during the last year, which increased by 82 percent in Q3 2019 over the previous quarter, according to Malwarebytes. The...

DLL Hijacking Flaw Impacts Symantec Endpoint Protection
2019-11-14 17:00

Symantec Endpoint Protection is the latest antivirus product found to unsafely load DLLs into a process that runs with SYSTEM privileges. read more

Tracking endpoints and ensuring device security a vexing problem for healthcare CIOs
2019-11-13 20:38

The consequences of security incidents in hospitals can be life-or-death, but security practices lag behind other industries.

Jamf unveils Jamf Protect, an enterprise endpoint protection solution built for Mac
2019-11-13 03:00

Jamf launched Jamf Protect, an enterprise endpoint protection solution built for Mac. Jamf Protect leverages native Apple security tools and on-device analysis of macOS activity to create...

Bitdefender GravityZone enhanced with new endpoint defense capabilities
2019-11-13 01:30

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader protecting over 500 million systems across 150 countries, announced new endpoint defense capabilities for GravityZone, the company’s unified endpoint...