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Advanced Fraud Solutions partners with Q6 Cyber to fight card fraud

Advanced Fraud Solutions and Q6 Cyber unveiled that they have partnered to integrate Q6 data feeds directly into the TrueCards fraud prevention software platform. TrueCards is a tool allowing financial institutions’ fraud teams to monitor card holder transactions for test sites, breaches, and common points of compromise (CPC). Q6 Cyber employs an approach to monitoring the “Digital Underground,” including the DarkWeb and DeepWeb. Leveraging years of law enforcement and intelligence experience in the dark corners … More →

Onapsis signs agreement to acquire ERP cybersecurity company Virtual Forge

Onapsis has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Virtual Forge, headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. Onapsis’s platform is the cybersecurity solution that protects the ERP systems and business-critical applications of the world’s largest organizations. Founded in 2006, Virtual Forge is the provider of solutions to prevent, detect and remediate cybersecurity and compliance risks in customizations and extensions of SAP applications. The combination of Onapsis and Virtual Forge will empower customers to have visibility, incident … More →

ExtraHop turns security analysts into threat experts with Reveal(x) winter 2019

ExtraHop released new capabilities designed to help Security Operations Center (SOC) and Network Operations Center (NOC) teams identify and safeguard critical assets, detect late-stage and insider threats, and transform security analysts into threat experts with streamlined investigation workflows. Demand for business agility and uptime have accelerated the modernization of IT, which is now dynamic and distributed – from the data center, to cloud infrastructure and SaaS, to remote sites and device edges. These changes introduce … More →

Aerohive announces cloud management for its A3 Secure Access Management solution

Aerohive Networks released the cloud management for its A3 Secure Access Management solution. A3 brings an approach to Corporate, BYOD, Guest, and IoT client device onboarding, authentication, and network access control (NAC). First launched in May 2018 as an on-premises solution, Aerohive now introduces a new deployment option for A3 with cloud-based monitoring and, expected in Q2, configuration for all customer sites, while localized tasks like device onboarding and access-control enforcement will be executed by … More →

BigID and Ionic Security partner to enhance data governance and privacy for multi-cloud compliance

BigID and Ionic Security partner to enable organizations to automate policy enforcement and auditability driven by data intelligence. The partnership removes barriers to cloud adoption for organizations struggling with compliance, allowing them to take a consolidated and granular approach to protecting sensitive data by integrating BigID discovery and classification with the Ionic Data Trust Platform’s real-time policy management. Together, BigID and Ionic provide an automated, accurate, and scalable solution that identifies, classifies, and enforces data … More →

FireEye president Travis Reese joins Waterfall Security board of directors

Waterfall Security Solutions unveiled that cyber security veteran and industry leader Travis Reese is joining Waterfall’s board of directors. Mr. Reese is currently the president of FireEye and was the president and chief operating officer at Mandiant before Mandiant was acquired by FireEye in 2013. “We welcome Mr. Reese to Waterfall’s board,” said Lior Frenkel, CEO and Co-Founder of Waterfall Security Solutions. “With Waterfall’s Unidirectional Security Gateways having gone mainstream in a growing number of … More →

Offensive Security appoints Ning Wang as CEO to lead organization’s next stage of growth

Offensive Security appoints Ning Wang as CEO. Wang joins the company with proven experience in growing businesses in the security and online training markets as COO and CFO of HackerOne and Lynda.com (formerly Spectrum Equity-backed and acquired by LinkedIn), respectively. Her appointment follows the growth investment in the company, led by Spectrum in September 2018. “In an age when software is in everything we touch and use, it’s now a matter of when and not … More →

BigID expands global sales organization to help enterprises meet worldwide privacy regulations

BigID has expanded the company’s sales presence in Europe, Asia and LATAM to meet demand from new global privacy regulations. BigID has also appointed Michael Trites as senior vice president of global sales to oversee the company’s direct sales inside and outside the U.S., and Toby Penn as vice president of pre-sales engineering to lead the company’s technical field sales team. Building on the company’s seven-fold year-over-year sales growth in 2018, BigID has expanded its … More →

Zix to acquire AppRiver, cloud-based cybersecurity solutions provider

Zix has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AppRiver for $275 million in cash. AppRiver is a provider of cloud-based cybersecurity and productivity services, serving more than 60,000 companies worldwide and supported by a 4,500-strong Managed Service Provider (MSP) reseller community. AppRiver launched its spam and virus service in 2002, and has since bolstered its suite of cloud-based security offerings with web protection, email encryption, secure archiving, and email continuity solutions. AppRiver also provides … More →

Endace joins IBM Security app exchange community

Endace launched the EndaceProbe integration with IBM Security to enable customers to retrace the actions of an attacker to accelerate forensic investigation. EndaceProbe Network Analytics Platform captures, indexes, and stores network traffic while hosting a variety of network security and performance monitoring applications in Application Dock, EndaceProbe’s built-in hosting environment. The new application is freely available to the security community through IBM Security App Exchange, a marketplace where developers across the industry can create applications … More →

Quali introduces SaaS cloud management platform CloudShell Colony for accelerating DevOps

Quali unveiled CloudShell Colony – a software-as-a-service (SaaS) cloud management platform for DevOps. CloudShell Colony automates DevOps environments all the way from development to production, while allowing IT and project managers to govern the use of cloud resources from a single pane of glass. This announcement follows the recent news highlighting Quali’s $22.5 million Series-C funding round in December 2018. CloudShell Colony initially being released as controlled availability (CA) software equips DevOps teams, developers and … More →

Pulse Secure launches new vADC Community Edition to help developers build smarter applications

Pulse Secure launched a new Community Edition of its software-based virtual Application Delivery Controller (vADC) to help application developers create application solutions with lower costs and time to market. Pulse vADC Community Edition integrates easily with common DevOps tools for automated provisioning and orchestration, such as Kubernetes, Terraform, Puppet and Chef, making it easy to start building secure and scalable applications from day one. “Pulse Secure vADC Community Edition is a free, full-featured application delivery … More →

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