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This is precisely what you'll get at SANS DFIR Europe 2021, which takes place in Berlin between October 4 and 9, 2021 - and right now, the plan is that all courses will be conducted in person. The nine strong course line-up takes you right from the fundamentals of DFIR, through to specialist and advanced courses, all with highly experienced instructors.
Blue Hexagon announced the native integration of Blue Hexagon's real-time deep learning based threat detection with AWS Network Firewall for real-time protection. As a cloud security platform, for actionable visibility, real-time threat defense and continuous compliance, this integration underscores Blue Hexagon's commitment to delivering innovative solutions to the AWS customers who need to secure their data, network and workloads in the cloud.
IMS Digital Ventures announced the closing of a US$ 1.5M pre-seed round of OwlGaze in which it acted as the lead investor. OwlGaze offers companies an end-to-end predictive threat detection solution to identify, prioritise and prevent cyber attacks using advanced correlation and AI technology.
The growing practice of connecting ICS to enterprise networks and the internet, driven by technologies such as IoT, edge computing and analytics platforms, has put ICS on the radar of cybercriminals. Securing ICS is more challenging than protecting traditional IT environments since ICS is insecure by design.
Flashpoint announces a partnership with the Australian threat intelligence services provider Cybermerc. The partnership features a joint solution making Flashpoint's advanced threat intelligence available in Cybermerc service offerings and acts as a valuable enrichment source fused into Cybermerc Aushield Defend-Australia's chosen national threat investigation and sharing platform.
Threat actors are abusing Argo Workflows to target Kubernetes deployments and deploy crypto-miners, according to a warning from security vendor Intezer. An open-source, container-native workflow engine that runs on Kubernetes, Argo Workflows allows users to run parallel jobs at ease from a central interface, reducing deployment complexity and leaving less room for errors.
Boston- based cybersecurity firm Rapid7 announced on Tuesday that it has shelled out $335 million to acquire threat intelligence startup Intsights. Israel-born Intsights has raised more than $70 million in funding, including a $30 million Series D round in November 2019.
An attorney with cybersecurity expertise suggests the only way to stop ransomware is for nations to create a global solution. Ransomware has grown beyond a cybersecurity threat into a global menace.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation warns of threat actors potentially targeting the upcoming Olympic Games, although evidence of attacks planned against the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is yet to be uncovered. As the FBI explains, attacks coordinated by criminal or nation-state threat actors targeting the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics could involve distributed denial of service attacks, ransomware, social engineering, phishing campaigns, or insider threats.
These two threats already combine to make common encryption less secure than we like to believe and with the power of quantum computing, it will only get worse. Shor's algorithm can use quantum computing to factor large RSA numbers exponentially faster than any other method and it doesn't require a full-scale general purpose quantum computer.