
Google acquires Mandiant for $5.4 billion
Mandiant announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google LLC for $23.00 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $5.4 …

Thales expands partnership with Google Cloud to strengthen data security for customers
Building on the two companies’ long standing partnership, Thales and Google Cloud are now working together to strengthen data security for customers migrating their workloads …

Dialpad expands partnership with Google Cloud to centralize business communications
Dialpad announced an expanded strategic and joint go-to-market partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate the digital transformation process for businesses worldwide. Born …

Guardsquare extends protection offering for Flutter to prevent tampering and reverse engineering
Guardsquare introduced mobile app protection support for Flutter, an open-source framework created by Google, extending its protection offering to prevent reverse-engineering …

OpenSSF announces Alpha-Omega Project to improve global OSS supply chain security
Following a meeting with government and industry leaders at the White House, OpenSSF announced the Alpha-Omega Project to improve the security posture of open source software …

The Log4j saga: New vulnerabilities and attack vectors discovered
The Apache Log4j saga continues, as several new vulnerabilities have been discovered in the popular library since Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) was fixed by releasing Log4j …

December 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast: How do you stack up?
I can’t believe that the end of 2021 is already in sight, and looking backwards, I have to say we’ve had our share of interesting events. If I had to characterize it from a …

Hypernet Labs hires Jon Venverloh as COO
Hypernet Labs, a tech company developing blockchain based solutions for payments and identity, announced the hire of Jon Venverloh as Chief Operating Officer. Venverloh is a …

Avast Online Security & Privacy optimizes privacy settings across popular websites and services
Avast has upgraded its free browser extension with an expanded feature set and a new design to provide digital protection across all major browsers. The software, renamed from …

CWS partners with Fugue to close security gaps with end-to-end policy as code enforcement
CWS has partnered with Fugue to deliver developer-first cloud security for time-sensitive and mission-critical cloud deployments. Using the same policies for infrastructure as …

Contrast Security raises $150M to advance application security
Contrast Security announced that it has closed $150M in a Series E round of funding at a greater than billion-dollar valuation. The oversubscribed round was led by Liberty …

MVSP: A minimum cybersecurity baseline to simplify vendor security assessment
Any organization that’s actively working on managing its cybersecurity risk can’t ignore the risk that goes with third-party vendors having access to its critical …