Security News

Building on a decade of significant investment in innovation, partnerships, acquisitions, customer research and open- source standards, Cisco is now offering customers the broadest, most integrated cloud-native security platform in the industry, Cisco SecureX. Cisco SecureX provides a comprehensive user experience across the breadth of Cisco's integrated security portfolio and customers' existing security infrastructure. Cisco SecureX unifies visibility, identifies unknown threats, and automates workflows to strengthen customers' security across network, endpoint, cloud, and applications.

The new AI/ML behavior analytics for guided proactive hunting of unknown threats, enriched with MITRE ATT&CK Framework tactics and techniques as well as risk scoring, pre-built playbooks and case management capabilities reduce detection and response times by 67%. Gurucul provides prebuilt threat libraries that include models, queries, data features and playbooks to support a wide-range of threat hunting uses cases like insider threat detection, data exfiltration, phishing, endpoint forensics, malicious processes, ransomware detection and network threat analytics, as well as cyberthreat, human centric and entity related threat scenarios. These prepacked libraries help analysts prioritize base activities and focus on the proactive investigation of new and unknown threat patterns using contextual data.

BlueVoyant, a global analytics-driven cybersecurity firm, announced the availability of its Managed Detection and Response Service for Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, a unified next-generation anti-virus and endpoint detection and response platform. "The addition of Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection to BlueVoyant's 100% cloud-based technology portfolio furthers BlueVoyant's goal of bringing best-of-breed technologies and services to companies of all sizes," said Jim Rosenthal, CEO of BlueVoyant.

"We are seeing increasingly complex threat techniques being used across cloud applications, spanning from cloud phishing and malware delivery, to cloud command and control and ultimately cloud data exfiltration," said Ray Canzanese, Threat Research Director at Netskope. "Our research shows the sophistication and scale of the cloud enabled kill chain increasing, requiring security defenses that understand thousands of cloud apps to keep pace with attackers and block cloud threats. For these reasons, any enterprise using the cloud needs to modernize and extend their security architectures."

Cyware Labs, provider of advanced cyber fusion solutions, announced the release of version 2.0 of the company's product suite. To keep up with the increasing volume of sophisticated threats, security teams must be able to move faster and with more accuracy while achieving greater visibility into their environment and threat landscape.

ElectionShield utilizes BrandShield's technology to protect political campaigns and candidates from a growing range of online threats. BrandShield can provide political candidates with the tools to monitor, detect and takedown these threats, through an AI-Based technology and online threat hunters team.

Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Microsoft Threat Protection, its integrated security solution aimed at offering protection across users, email, applications, and endpoints. Microsoft Threat Protection leverages AI and automation to not only alert on discovered issues, but also allow responders to easily take action.

Baltimore, MD-based ZeroFOX has raised $74 million in a new funding round led by Intel Capital and including existing vendors NEA, Highland Capital Partners, Redline Capital Management, Hercules Capital and Core Capital. ZeroFOX delivers an AI-powered platform that protects users and brands from social media-sourced threats.

Cynet changes the rules of the game with a free threat assessment offering based on more than 72 hours of data collection, enabling organizations to benchmark their security posture against their industry vertical peers and take actions accordingly. Cynet Free Threat Assessment spotlights critical, exposed attack surfaces and provides actionable knowledge of attacks that are currently alive and active in the environment.

Cynet changes the rules of the game with a free threat assessment offering based on more than 72 hours of data collection, enabling organizations to benchmark their security posture against their vertical industry peers and take actions accordingly. Cynet Free Threat Assessment spotlights critical, exposed attack surfaces and provides actionable knowledge of attacks that are currently alive and active in the environment.