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Companies can save millions of dollars annually in preventable downtime and outages

Gremlin, the world’s first hosted Chaos Engineering service created by engineers formerly at Amazon and Netflix, announced ‘Gremlin Free’ which makes it easy for DevOps teams to get started with Chaos Engineering. Gremlin Free includes the ability to randomly shut down servers, like the open source Chaos Monkey tool from 2011, but can also target specific hosts and simulate CPU spikes for more focused experiments. It also comes with a simple user-interface (UI), a halt … More →

Egress releases new software to enhance protection against email data breaches

People-centric data security provider Egress has announced its latest releases, which use machine learning to improve sender and end user experience, and enhance protection against data breaches. The new software, Egress Risk-based Protection and Egress Smart Authentication, determine the actual risk of a data breach as information is sent and accessed via email, to ensure the right security is applied. Both solutions tackle a common problem with security tools: that one-size-fits-all approaches often leave users … More →

Red Hat launches new certification program to support the future of cloud-native telco infrastructure

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, announced a new training and certification program emphasizing the next-generation of telecommunications innovation. The Red Hat Certified Architect Program in Telco Cloud focuses on the skills that telecommunications engineers need to build network functions virtualization (NFV) clouds, critical technologies that can help drive advanced services like 5G. Used by Rakuten Mobile Network, as part of their collaboration with Red Hat in building a fully virtualized … More →

Stellar Cyber raises $13.2M, rebrands from Aella Data and expands board and executive team

Validating its pioneering position in the rapidly-evolving cybersecurity industry, security analytics provider Stellar Cyber announced that it has closed $13.2 million in Series A funding. This investment follows a period of rapid customer growth for the company as well as the crossing of major milestones including a corporate name change from Aella Data and an expansion of its board and executive team. In an era where enterprises are grappling with a higher volume of cyberattacks, … More →

API Fortress and Axway automate API testing across the agile product development lifecycle

API Fortress, a leader in continuous API testing, providing a complete suite of cloud or on-premises tools for agile development and CI/CD workflows, announces a beta release of an integration with Axway to automate API testing across the agile product development lifecycle. With just the click of a “Build from Axway” button, developers and QA testers can work in parallel with instant feedback about API quality, thereby allowing teams to significantly shorten release cycles as … More →

Gurucul extends behavior based security analytics to entire IT stack

Gurucul, a leader in behavior based security and fraud analytics technology, announced a new version of its Gurucul Risk Analytics (GRA) platform, which extends behavior based security analytics with pre-built machine learning models that span the entire IT stack. GRA version 7.0 unifies siloed analytics to provide real-time anomaly and risk detection across enterprise and cloud platforms/applications, networks, mobile endpoints, IoT devices, medical devices, business applications and more. Gurucul goes beyond SIEM’s capabilities, including the … More →

SecurityScorecard launches Atlas, a questionnaire and evidence exchange platform

SecurityScorecard, the leader in cybersecurity ratings, announced the availability of Atlas, a questionnaire and evidence exchange platform that enables enterprises to easily manage, complete, and analyze cybersecurity questionnaires and evidence-based internal security controls at scale. Together with SecurityScorecard’s security ratings, Atlas gives a unified, 360-degree view into the risk posture of any company, using both internal and external security insights. The current questionnaire exchange process is time consuming, inefficient, and cumbersome. “SecurityScorecard Atlas moves the … More →

Radiflow releases new version of its industrial threat detection solution

Radiflow, a leading provider of industrial cybersecurity solutions for industrial automation networks, announced that the company has added dynamic vulnerability assessment scoring capabilities in the new release of its iSID industrial threat detection solution. The current practices for risk assessments and security remediations employed by industrial enterprises and critical infrastructure operators generally rely on manual evaluations and follow unstructured processes. These processes are often time consuming and are not sufficiently responsive to changes in the … More →

BitSight releases Peer Analytics, improving security performance management

BitSight, the Standard in Security Ratings, announced the availability of BitSight Peer Analytics, the latest Security Performance Management offering on the BitSight platform. Leveraging the world’s most trusted and comprehensive view of security performance across hundreds of thousands of global organizations, BitSight Peer Analytics provides security and risk leaders unprecedented visibility into the relative performance of their security programs against their peers and sector. The solution enables organizations to meet and surpass their industry standard … More →

GreatHorn protects users from the large variety of Microsoft and Google credential theft attacks

GreatHorn, provider of the industry’s most advanced email threat protection platform, announced the capability to analyze and assess the authenticity of Office 365 and G Suite login pages embedded in emails received by users. The new release further protects GreatHorn users from the large variety of Microsoft and Google credential theft attacks that have increased in volume and sophistication over the past year. By incorporating advanced computer vision into its threat protection platform, GreatHorn is … More →