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Code42, a provider of insider threat management tools, announced updates to its cloud data security solution to help security teams closely monitor, detect and investigate data threats caused by high-risk employees. VMware announced the launch of the VMware Advanced Security for Cloud Foundation, which will enable customers to replace legacy security solutions.
While the cybersecurity industry has increasingly focused on the roles artificial intelligence and machine learning can play in thwarting attacks, the humans behind the algorithms remain both points of strength and weakness, says RSA President Rohit Ghai, who kicked off the Tuesday keynote presentations at the RSA 2020 conference in San Francisco. Ghai offered lessons learned from the 2018 ransomware attack against Atlanta, which ended up paying over $17 million for clean-up and recovery after deciding not to give into the demand of the attackers, who had originally demanded a ransom of $51,000 in bitcoin to unlock the systems.
Actor and activist George Takei opened RSA 2020 with the message, "Homogeneity equals disaster," and RSA president Rohit Ghai reinforced that message: "We need to stop being snobs and trade exclusivity for inclusion." The discussion was in the RSA 2020 opening keynote on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. By looking beyond the traditional profile of a security expert, security teams can improve their problem-solving skills by improving diversity.
RSA CONFERENCE 2020 - San Francisco - Privacy compliance solutions provider SECURITI.ai has won the title of 'Most Innovative Startup' at the RSA Conference 2020 Innovation Sandbox contest that took place on Monday. The Innovation Sandbox competition allows pre-selected cybersecurity startup finalists to showcase their technologies to a panel of judges and attendees at the RSA Conference in hopes to win the highly coveted title.
Cisco unveiled SecureX, a new cloud-native security platform designed to improve visibility, deliver analytics, and automate common security workflows. Checkmarx announced a new orchestration module for its software security platform that integrates with application release orchestration and agile planning tools.
Google's reCAPTCHA Enterprise and Web Risk API get a general release; Chronicle Security gets boosts from new threat detection and timelining features. Google has made a number of security announcements at RSA 2020, including upgrades to its Chronicle Security platform and the general release of its reCAPTCHA Enterprise and Web Risk API tools.
As a result, thousands of events around the world are being canceled, postponed or turned into online-only events in the wake of the coronavirus and the looming threat of COVID-19. Shopify Unite 2020 developers conference was set for May 6-8 in Toronto and now the in-person portion is canceled and it will be an online-only event.
This special edition of the ISMG Security Report offers a preview of top keynote presentations at the RSA 2020 conference, plus a look at important themes and health tips for attendees.
We talked with Evan Reiser, CEO of Abnormal Security, about how layering diverse defenses is crucial for stopping email attacks. BluBracket is the first comprehensive security solution for code in the enterprise-so developers can innovate and collaborate, and security teams can sleep at night.