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SentinelOne partners with SecBI to provide threat visibility, containment and remediation

SentinelOne announced that the company has partnered with SecBI. By combining SentinelOne’s threat visibility, containment and remediation capabilities with SecBI’s Autonomous Investigation technology, security professionals will be able to shed light into every behavior in an organization’s network, placing the spotlight on and enabling defense against all incidents that happen and/or involve activities on the endpoint and in the network. “In today’s world, it is not a matter of if you will be the target … More →

RiskRecon secures $25 million in Series B funding

RiskRecon announced it has raised $25 million in Series B financing. Led by Accel and joined by existing investors Dell Technologies Capital, General Catalyst, and F-Prime Capital, the global venture capital firm affiliated with Fidelity Investments, the round brings RiskRecon’s total funding to more than $40 million. Existing individual investors Mickey Boodaei, Rakesh Loonkar, and Paul Sagan also participated in the round. In conjunction with the investment, Accel partner Nate Niparko will join the company’s … More →

Crowdfense platform to allow researchers to safely submit, discuss and sell 0day exploits

Crowdfense announced the launch of their Vulnerability Research Platform (VRP). This web-based collaboration platform allows vulnerability researchers to safely submit, discuss and quickly sell single 0day exploits and chains of exploits. The VRP will open on September 3, 2018. “Through the VRP, Crowdfense experts work in real time with researchers to evaluate, test, document and refine their findings,” said Andrea Zapparoli Manzoni, Director of Crowdfense. “The findings can be both within the scope of Crowdfense … More →

WhiteSource unveils free open source Vulnerability Checker

WhiteSource announced the release of its Vulnerability Checker, a free tool that provides companies with immediate, real-time alerts on the 50 most critical open source vulnerabilities published in the open source community. The new standalone CLI tool is free to use and available for anyone to download as a desktop application directly from the WhiteSource website. Once downloaded, the Vulnerability Checker offers users the opportunity to import and scan any library and run a quick … More →

Securely launch your IoT-related services, devices, platforms, apps

Irdeto has introduced the latest version of Cloakware Software Protection to enable any IoT connected business to take advantage of and securely launch IoT-related services, devices, platforms, applications and more. Irdeto Cloakware Software Protection Cloakware Software Protection is a suite of advanced cybersecurity technologies that enables organizations to customize the protection of their software-defined business. The solution now offers more platform support, including mobile devices and other platforms on iOS, Android, Linux, MAC OS X, … More →

Proofpoint launches TAP Isolation, threat detection, and Threat Response python scripting

Proofpoint announced three people-centric security innovations, including Targeted Attack Protection (TAP) Isolation for personal webmail and browsing defense, threat detection, and new Threat Response python scripting. “Exceptional effectiveness in threat protection requires constant innovation—and today Proofpoint has increased its lead,” said Ryan Kalember, senior vice president of Cybersecurity Strategy for Proofpoint. “Technologically, these people-centric innovations are an important step forward for Proofpoint and our customers. We help security teams proactively defend their organizations from today’s … More →

eSentire and Cyxtera partner to bring zero-trust network protection to midsize enterprises

eSentire and Cyxtera Technologies announced a partnership to bring customers security solutions designed to secure today’s hybrid IT environment. The partnership combines eSentire’s 24×7 MDR with Cyxtera’s AppGate SDP zero-trust network offering, delivering prevention and detection capabilities across customers’ hybrid IT environments. The two companies will jointly go-to-market to maximize customer reach for this mid-sized enterprise offering. “Digital transformation of our customers is accelerating the adoption of hybrid IT, fundamentally changing the enterprise perimeter and … More →

Which SD-WAN product should enterprises choose?

Adoption of Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) has reached an inflection point and nearly every distributed business is deploying, evaluating, or planning to implement an SD-WAN as part of its IT vision. To help enterprises understand the merits of products in the market and identify the capabilities best suited to meet their use case requirements, NSS Labs announced the results of the industry’s first Software Defined-Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) Group Test. The capabilities that … More →

Perception Point launches anti-malware solution for shared drives

Perception Point announced the launch of an Advanced Shared Drive Security solution for OneDrive, SharePoint, Dropbox, Google Drive and Box. Cloud-based shared drive applications are essential productivity tools in today’s enterprise environment. Despite widespread adoption, the majority of these platforms lack the security measures that have been instrumental in securing email, endpoints and networks, creating security blind spots that pose a cybersecurity risk. According to market research, 81% of IT decision makers consider shared drive … More →

Ziften adds AV to the Zenith endpoint protection platform to stop attacks

Ziften announced its Zenith endpoint protection platform now includes AV protecting all enterprise endpoints from known and unknown targeted attacks. Ziften helps enterprises simplify endpoint protection plus visibility. Zenith is the cyber security platform that provides one agent for all endpoints – laptops, desktops, servers, and cloud – preventing multi-vector attacks with advanced AV, detection and response, plus visibility and hardening. Attackers have created a criminal industry by attacking vulnerable enterprise endpoints. And traditional AV … More →

wolfSSL announces the first commercial release of TLS 1.3

wolfSSL announces the commercial release of TLS 1.3. With the imminent finalization of the TLS 1.3 draft 28 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF.org), wolfSSL is the first commercial release of the TLS 1.3. wolfSSL supports TLS 1.3 on both the client and server side and has TLS and cryptography in terms of quality and support responsiveness. There are many benefits in changing to the newest version of the TLS specification, including: Higher performance … More →

Bugcrowd University to provide hands-on training for security researchers

Bugcrowd announced the launch of Bugcrowd University to educate and empower the crowd with the latest skills and methodologies. The first advanced program of its kind, Bugcrowd University provides researcher education and training to improve the state of application security training, community engagement and content delivery. Bugcrowd University is free and open to all security researchers — not just those on the Bugcrowd Platform. In the last few years, organizations around the world have witnessed … More →

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