Security News
A small study found that security professionals are open to new solutions even as they rely on traditional vendors to protect their networks. Limited budgets may be blocking more experimentation with new security tactics; 45% of respondents listed small budgets as the top network admin challenge today.
Dell on Friday announced the launch of Dell SafeBIOS Events & Indicators of Attack, a utility designed to alert IT and security teams about BIOS configuration changes that could be part of a sophisticated attack. Dell SafeBIOS Events & Indicators of Attack is available immediately worldwide for Dell commercial PCs as part of the company's Trusted Device solution.
Zoom Video Communications, the creators of the Zoom remote conferencing service, have benefited the most from this sudden surge of demand for video conferencing solutions. Not to be outshined, Google explained again on Tuesday that its Google Hangouts Meet video communication service is a secure option for enterprises.
BitDam, a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions that protect enterprise communications from unknown threats hidden in files and links, announced that its Advanced Threat Protection solution now supports Microsoft Teams and Zoom. Aiming to support organizations' ability to collaborate safely when working from home, BitDam has accelerated these solution releases and is offering businesses its trial for Zoom and Microsoft Teams protection for free for three months.
SmartBear, a leading provider of software development and quality tools, announced the acquisition of Test Management for Jira, the #1 user-rated QA and test management app in Jira for enterprise teams, from London-based Adaptavist. TM4J joins a SmartBear portfolio dedicated to enterprise agility at scale with industry-leading tools like Zephyr and CucumberStudio.
It's important for security and IT professionals to understand how the California Consumer Privacy Act will affect how they do their jobs. Businesses that fail to comply with CCPA could face penalties of up to $7,500 per violation and individuals can seek damages through a class action.
Cygilant, provider of Cybersecurity-as-a-Service to mid-sized organizations, shared recent enhancements to its SOCVue platform that improve the speed, efficiency and accuracy of how the company collaborates and solves problems for customers. The SOCVue security operations and analytics platform enables quick and effective communication between customer IT teams and Cygilant's Security Operations Center.
While enterprises rapidly transition to the public cloud, complexity is increasing, but visibility and team sizes are decreasing while security budgets remain flat to pose a significant obstacle to preventing data breaches, according to FireMon's 2020 State of Hybrid Cloud Security Report. "It is shocking to see the lack of automation being used across the cloud security landscape, especially in light of the escalating risk around misconfigurations as enterprises cut security resources. The new State of Hybrid Cloud Security Report shows that enterprises are most concerned about these challenges, and we know that adaptive and automated security tools would be a welcomed solution for their needs."
Scott Matteson: How are organizations misusing their firewalls? Matt Glenn: The first thing organizations need to do is recognize that firewalls can help with many security challenges, but they should not be used to solve everything.
SCYTHE, a leader in continuous adversarial emulation, is introducing the SCYTHE Marketplace at the RSA Conference 2020. The SCYTHE Marketplace opens up SCYTHE's synthetic malware creation platform to trusted third party developers so that they can turn their experience and expertise into new capabilities for a vibrant security ecosystem.