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Secureworks CEO Wendy Thomas, who visited Australia in July 2024, told TechRepublic that the XDR offering was appealing to mid-market customers in Australia who may not have the budget or capabilities to build their own security operations centre but are concerned about the possibility of cyber attacks - especially after a number of large local breaches in the region. Thomas added that the future of cyber security in Australia and APAC could include more offensive operations from governments in cooperation with private-sector security providers to disrupt or take down threat actors.
The Secureworks Counter Threat Unit™ research team analyses security threats and helps organizations protect their systems. During September and October 2021, CTU researchers observed notable developments in threat behaviours, the global threat landscape, and security trends, and identified lessons to consider.
Secureworks announced its new Taegis XDR cloud data storage instance in Frankfurt, Germany, for European Union customers and channel partners who prefer to store their telemetry data within the EU. This investment reinforces Secureworks' ongoing commitment to EU customers and partners, while enhancing Secureworks' readiness to fulfill accelerated growth and meet rising demand in the region. The EU General Data Protection Regulation addresses the transfer of personal employee and customer data outside the EU and the European Economic Area.
Or so says Secureworks, which throughout 2020 has, perhaps counterintuitively, insisted there has been minimal uptick in cyber activity from malicious people, stating in its research The Effect of COVID-19 on Incident Response that "Data on confirmed security incidents and genuine threats to customers showed the threat level largely unchanged from before the pandemic." Rather, reckons the company, the near-overnight shift to remote working triggered by the pandemic has created a whole set of poorly understood IT infrastructures lashed together in a hurry and therefore containing large numbers of hidden vulnerabilities - vulns that infosec bods ought to be hunting down, in Secureworks' view.
Managed Security Services provider Secureworks, announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire acquire Delve Laboratories, a company that provides a vulnerability management and asset discovery platform. According to SecurityWeek's research, Delve has raised roughly $1.5 million in Seed funding.
Secureworks' new Cloud Configuration Review pairs its two decades of security operations and consulting experience with the innovative VMware Secure State, a public cloud security and compliance monitoring platform, to give customers an immediate head start against cloud security risks such as misconfiguration. Security recommendations: a consultative review of VMware Secure State findings to deliver a visual understanding of security risks, recommendations for remediation actions and guidance on how to prioritize security controls that have the most impact on cloud security posture.
Secureworks, a leading global cybersecurity company that protects organizations in a digitally connected world, announced the appointment of Paul Parrish as its new Chief Financial Officer,...
Secureworks, a leading global cybersecurity company that protects organizations in a digitally connected world, announced the appointment of Maureen Perrelli as its new Chief Channel Officer,...
Secureworks announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to help joint customers detect advanced cyber threats faster, with greater accuracy, and respond more effectively to reduce risk....