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CyberMDX raises $10 million Series A to expand medical cybersecurity to hospitals worldwide

CyberMDX announced the completion of a $10 million Series A financing. The round was led by Pitango Venture Capital, with participation from OurCrowd Qure. The number of connected medical devices such as MRIs, patient monitors and infusion pumps is growing, improving patient care as well as hospital operations. These devices are critical assets to a hospital’s operations, connected to the heart of the IT network and its data centers. However, medical devices often lack basic … More →

Integris Software secures $10 Million Series A financing round

Integris Software announced it has raised a $10 million Series A financing round led by Aspect Ventures with participation from Workday Ventures, Madrona Venture Group, and Amplify Partners. The round brings Integris Software’s total funding to $13M. Integris will use the funding to continue to build on its data privacy automation platform and meet the demand for a data privacy solution. Recent developments in data privacy, such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) … More →

Alert Logic extends network IDS capability for containers

Alert Logic announced the network intrusion detection system (IDS) for containers, available in Alert Logic Cloud Defender and Threat Manager solutions. This innovation brings organizations capabilities to inspect network traffic for malicious activity targeting containers, and detection of compromises to enhance the security of workloads running on the AWS Cloud. The Alert Logic network IDS capability supports containers deployed on AWS including Docker, Amazon Elastic Container Service, Kubernetes, CoreOS, and AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Support for … More →

CrowdStrike’s Falcon Discover enhances security for workloads on AWS

CrowdStrike announced the availability of Falcon Discover for Amazon Web Services (AWS) workloads. Falcon Discover provides security, operations and development teams with visibility and control over Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, improving security posture. As today’s enterprises continue to migrate their data and implement hybrid centers to host workloads that are both on-premises and on the cloud, maintaining security is challenging. Many organizations of all sizes lack security resources and are looking for … More →

ObserveIT closes $33M in Series B financing

ObserveIT announced it closed $33 million in Series B funding. The investment round includes participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Spring Lake Equity Partners and NightDragon Security, the cybersecurity investment firm founded by industry veteran Dave DeWalt. The funding will be used to accelerate innovation for ObserveIT’s insider threat management solutions and to expand ObserveIT’s sales and marketing teams to support the company’s growth. This will enable the company to fulfill the demand for its threat … More →

SoftwareONE launches Security for Microsoft 365

SoftwareONE announced that it has launched Security for Microsoft 365, a managed service that enhances the security of Microsoft 365 environments as well as manages and protects users, devices, applications and information from advanced security threats. In a mobile-first, cloud-first world, the attack surface has expanded past the traditional IT perimeter and enterprises need to manage identities, protect devices, govern and manage Shadow IT, and make sure sensitive information is safeguarded. Security for Microsoft 365 … More →

McAfee MVISION Portfolio as a SaaS-delivered workspace

McAfee announced McAfee MVISION, a portfolio featuring McAfee innovations designed to give customers a defense system that manages their security products based on their needs as they continue to move to device operating systems and to the cloud. MVISION strengthens the device as a control point in security architectures by delivering simplified management, stronger Windows security, behavior analytics, and threat defense for Android and iOS devices. With its single integrated management workspace, MVISION empowers enterprise … More →

McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator now available on AWS

McAfee announced the availability of McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO) on AWS. This AWS deployment option provides organizations time to focus on security concerns by eliminating the hardware, networking and database maintenance tasks associated with private, server-based solutions. With infrastructure as a service, customers will experience the benefits of a shared responsibility model with AWS and still have complete control over the data and deployment configurations. “With such a simple and fast deployment, we are removing … More →

ClearDATA launches healthcare compliant cloud offering on Microsoft Azure

ClearDATA has launched a healthcare compliant offering for Microsoft Azure. The offering helps healthcare organizations operating on Azure to innovate and scale while maintaining compliance with changing laws and regulations affecting privacy and data collection of protected health information (PHI). As a result of ClearDATA’s healthcare offering, including Automated Safeguards and a Compliance Dashboard, healthcare organizations – including payers and providers – have another option for native access to Azure without running the risk of … More →

Optiv Security launches Privileged Access Managed Service

Optiv Security announced its Privileged Access Managed Service. A remotely delivered, managed offering, this service is designed to help public and private entities protect privileged credentials, the link in the security chain and the source of a number of breaches. Optiv’s Privileged Access Managed service includes: management of availability and performance optimization, release management, administration, and reporting. These capabilities combine with Optiv’s consulting services – as well the company’s technology resale, implementation and integration services … More →