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As the technological landscape increasingly integrates AI, Cindric anticipates a profound impact on the evolution of APIs, emphasizing the growing importance of API security, authentication, and the challenges posed by zombie endpoints. APIs have been growing at a CAGR of 25% for the past few years, but that growth doubled in 2023, all thanks to AI. We predict that AI-based APIs will continue to drive API growth in 2024 as they go hand in hand.
The infamous Mirai botnet was spotted by researchers who say it is spinning up again, this time with an "Aggressively updated arsenal of exploits." It's the first major update to the IZ1H9 Mirai variant in months and arrives bolstered with tools to break into devices from D-Link and Zyxel, among others.
The funding extension comes when global governments and infrastructure providers increasingly acknowledge the critical role of industrial cybersecurity, necessitating enhanced focus on their ICS/OT settings. We launched the Dragos Global Partner Program this year, the only channel program to comprise OT cybersecurity technology, services, and threat intelligence as well as training.
Discover how HealthEdge deals with security and data privacy in the face of rapid expansion. "Healthcare is beset by ransomware gangs and this led to an increase in confirmed data breaches in 2022," said Suzanne Widup, a researcher for the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report.
Intel says its engineers are partnering with security researchers to hunt for vulnerabilities in firmware, GPUs, hypervisors, chipsets, and other products in a new expansion to its bug bounty program. Last year, 97 out of the 113 externally found security vulnerabilities were reported by researchers who joined the public bug bounty program, according to Intel.
Russia has put forward a draft convention to the United Nations ostensibly to fight cyber-crime. The proposal, titled "United Nations Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal Purposes," [PDF] calls for member states to develop domestic laws to punish a far broader set of offenses than current international rules recognize.
Skybox Security announced accelerated global expansion to meet increasing market demand for its Security Posture Management Platform, which includes its Vulnerability Management solution. Driven by customer demand to improve security efficacy and reduce exposure risk across hybrid cloud and critical infrastructure, Skybox Security increased new subscription customers by 86% in the first half of 2021.
"This investment from KKR and Ten Eleven Ventures allows NetSPI to better meet this demand while simultaneously fueling growth and innovation as a leader in the booming cyber security market. With our investors' support, NetSPI will continue to transform the industry with a focus on attack surface management, enterprise security testing, and vulnerability management." "NetSPI has built a differentiated suite of tech-enabled services and test orchestration and reporting software that is not only enhancing cyber security for complex global enterprises across a wide range of industries, but is simultaneously disrupting the traditional penetration testing market in order for these enterprises to continuously test their applications, networks, and cloud infrastructures at scale," said Ben Pederson, Principal at KKR. "We are excited to invest in NetSPI's growth as they build and deliver these critically important offensive security solutions."
Trend Micro announced a major refresh of the Trend Micro partner program that provide more cloud services resources and rewards partners with additional discounts for enabling organizations to better secure public cloud computing environments. The objective of the revamped program is to make it more profitable for partners that work with customers to deploy Trend Micro cloud security services via our authorized distributors and the AWS Marketplace or the AWS Consulting Partner Private Offer program, through which many cloud-native partners already resell AWS services.
Druva announced a $147 million investment as the company rapidly scales in response to accelerated demand for its platform. As organizations quickly move workloads to cloud environments, adopt SaaS solutions, and combat rising cyber threats, this new investment will fuel continued expansion of Druva Cloud Platform to meet today's unprecedented needs, and extend the company's industry leadership as it defines tomorrow's data protection.