Security News
Sontiq announced the introduction of its next-generation, cloud-based platform, Sontiq Intelligent Identity Security. The enhanced platform serves as the foundation of Sontiq's identity theft and cyber threat protection solutions for consumers, partners and clients, delivered through its product brands, IdentityForce and EZShield.
Dragos launched the new Dragos QRadar Device Support Module, which integrates with IBM security information and event management technology to improve visibility and detection of both information technology and OT threats. This new technology integration between Dragos Platform and IBM Security QRadar is now available, allowing defenders to leverage both technologies to improve visibility and detection across IT and OT networks.
With this acquisition, SentinelOne will be able to ingest, correlate, search, and action data from any source, delivering the industry's most advanced integrated XDR platform for realtime threat mitigation across the enterprise and cloud. Through this acquisition, SentinelOne sets the bar for the XDR market and solves one of the biggest challenges in delivering a fully integrated XDR platform: ingesting and actioning all operational data in realtime from a security-first perspective.
Votiro announced the launch of a cloud-based SaaS version of their Secure File Gateway solutions. The launch of the SaaS solution will provide customers working within or migrating to the cloud with a scalable way to completely eliminate file-borne attacks carried through email, web downloads, and website uploads.
The new release brings together the capabilities of user and entity behavior analytics, endpoint data loss prevention, digital forensics and insider threat management into a cloud-native platform to empower customers to mitigate the risk of data and IP loss. "Our overarching goal at DTEX is to help our customers better understand their workforces, protect their data and make smarter, more informed business decisions more rapidly," said Mohan Koo, co- founder and CTO, DTEX Systems.
UPDATE. CD Projekt Red, the videogame-development company behind Cyberpunk 2077 and the wildly popular Witcher series, has suffered a ransomware attack that could soon result in troves of company data being dumped online - including game source code. The news comes on the heels of weeks of controversy over the company's blockbuster release of Cyberpunk 2077, which suffered glitches and console problems that engendered high levels of dissatisfaction among fans, who had waited more than a year for the much-hyped giant sandbox game.
Siemplify released a research that studies how the sudden shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic has affected SecOps analysts' ability to perform their jobs and the impact on overall security postures. The overall cybersecurity posture has remained strong due to greater investments in security automation technologies and reliance on managed security service providers, potentially paving the way for many security operations centers to become permanently remote, a Siemplify survey reveals.
Cybersecurity took center stage in the 16th edition of the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and debt crises. The analysts behind the report called cybersecurity failure among the "Highest likelihood risks" of the next 10 years and IT infrastructure breakdown "Among the highest impact risks of the next decade."
RSA announced the general availability of RSA NetWitness Detect AI, a cloud-native advanced analytics and machine learning solution that provides rapid detection and actionable insights on data captured by the RSA NetWitness Platform. RSA NetWitness Detect AI applies cloud-scale processing for behavior analytics and uses unsupervised machine-learning to detect and respond to threats without manual oversight.
While technical solutions like spam filters and mobile device management systems are important for protecting end-users, with the number of threats and the multitude of systems and communications through which staff performs work, the one unifying risk factor that has to be addressed to improve fundamentally, security is the role of human error. Almost all successful cyber breaches share one variable in common: human error.