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Arcserve unveiled Arcserve Unified Data Protection 8.0, which is designed to protect organizations' entire infrastructure, including hyperconverged, from data loss, cybercriminals, and persistent threats like ransomware. This makes Arcserve the only data protection vendor capable of delivering ransomware prevention across hardware, cloud, SaaS, and other environments.
Sonrai Security announced significant new functionality designed to automate prevention of data breaches in public cloud deployments for its Sonrai Dig platform. Supporting leading public cloud databases in combination with advanced behavioral modeling and automated blocking, the newly enhanced service helps ensure critical corporate data is secure wherever it resides in cloud environments.
Employees commonly and inadvertently compromise company data through poor password hygiene, accidental data sharing, improper technology use, phishing scams, and more. Some employees will also act maliciously, intentionally stealing company data for profit, retribution, or fun.
Equifax on Friday announced plans to shell out $640 million to acquire Kount, a company that sells e-commerce retail fraud protection. The Atlanta, Ga.-based Equifax said the deal would expand its worldwide footprint in digital identity and fraud prevention solutions.
Group-IB has revealed the results of its yearslong development of proprietary high-tech products for threat hunting and research - Threat Intelligence & Attribution and Threat Hunting Framework. The creation of TI&A marks the emergence of a new type of solutions for collecting data on threats and attackers relevant for a particular organization with the aim of examination and proactive hunting for threat actors, research, and protection of network infrastructure.
E-commerce fraud prevention company Forter announced on Thursday that it has achieved "Unicorn" status after raising $125 million in a Series E funding round. The platform leverages predictive fraud research and modeling, as well as a global data network to identify attempts of payment card fraud, identity theft and account takeover.
Group-IB has presented its new solution for digital identity protection and fraud prevention Fraud Hunting Platform. Fraud Hunting Platform becomes an integrated solution that will play a key role in protecting users.
Palo Alto Networks introduced Enterprise Data Loss Prevention-a cloud-delivered service that brings a fresh, simple and modern approach to data protection, privacy and compliance. "Data breaches are a huge and growing problem worldwide, but the existing legacy and point solutions are not accessible, appropriate or effective for many of the companies that need them," said Anand Oswal, senior vice president and general manager, Firewall as a Platform, Palo Alto Networks.
The usage of banking services through a mobile app has quickly been embraced by consumers. Currently, researches indicate that mobile banking apps are often not as secure as expected.
It seems ironic that the co-founder of a company designed to prevent online fraud would engage in fraudulent activity. "It seems ironic that the co-founder of a company designed to prevent online fraud would engage in fraudulent activity himself, but today that's exactly what we allege Adam Rogas did," Sweeney said in a statement.