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Valimail extends its IDEA platform with Valimail Defend

Valimail Defend provides email fraud protection, eliminating inbound email impersonation attacks, including friendly-from spoofing as well as lookalike-domain (sometimes called cousin-domain) attacks. Valimail Defend is the automated, identity-driven solution that blocks inbound impersonation emails. It is built on the foundation of the Valimail IDEA platform, with the automated approach that’s different from first-generation reporting solutions, and which does not require access to the content of the emails. Valimail Defend also leverages Valimail’s proprietary machine learning … More →

F5 welcomes Mary Gardner as CISO

F5 Networks announced that Mary Gardner has joined the company’s leadership team as its chief information security officer (CISO). In this role, she is responsible for F5’s information security management efforts, along with strategic planning, governance, and controls. This includes identifying, evaluating, and reporting on F5’s overall security performance and posture in alignment with regulatory requirements and industry practices. While the security, compliance, and data protection of F5, customer, and partner information will be her … More →

Thales and Device Authority healthcare IoT solution ensures device and data security for medical devices

Thales and Device Authority announce a jointly developed solution to ensure the authentication of IoT devices and the confidentiality and integrity of the data they rely on – giving both healthcare professionals and their patients the confidence to adopt these technologies. The IoT market in healthcare, otherwise known as ‘Connected Health’, has boomed in recent years with forecasts predicting it will reach $612bn by 2024. IoT devices have enabled services from remote diagnosis to disease … More →

Alcide updates Cloud-Native Security Platform to include Slack integration and serverless support

Alcide announced a release of its Cloud Native Security Platform. Alcide’s platform provides granular visibility, control and security for a range of cloud-native environments, including containers, virtual machines, serverless computing and service mesh, as well as physical data centers. The result is not just insight into infrastructures, but security against cyberattacks through the following capabilities: application aware micro-segmentation, a network visualization and connectivity map, threat protection and embedded security policies. Based on collaboration with partners … More →

Manatt expands cybersecurity practice to meet client needs

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips announced that it has expanded its nationally ranked privacy and data security practice with the addition of Ingrid Beierly, John V. Treviño and Peter J. Reid. This expansion with Beierly and Reid, who will serve as business and compliance consultants, and Treviño, a privacy and technology counsel, reflects Manatt’s strategy of combining the legal practice and consulting in order to offer solutions to meet its clients’ business needs. “John and Peter … More →

Waze live alert data now available in Esri’s ArcGIS Marketplace

Esri announced Waze live alert data will now be available in Esri’s ArcGIS Marketplace to members of the Waze Connected citizens program. The Connected citizens program offers governments a stream of data, constantly updated in real-time, whenever they need it. This enables personnel to make data-driven infrastructure decisions and improves the efficiency of incident response. Waze is now supported by ArcGIS Online, where its live feed of mapped traffic alerts and other information, such as … More →

MobileIron appoints Scott Hill as CFO

MobileIron announced that Scott Hill has been appointed chief financial officer (CFO). He will report to CEO Simon Biddiscombe. “I am delighted to welcome Scott to our leadership team,” said Simon Biddiscombe, CEO, MobileIron. “Scott is a seasoned finance executive who has a deep understanding of the enterprise security market and a wealth of relevant experience to bring to bear at MobileIron.” “I am thrilled to join MobileIron,” said Scott Hill, CFO, MobileIron. “There is … More →

Intertrust Modulus platform for IoT and data-driven business models

Intertrust Technologies announced the launch of Intertrust Modulus platform, a security and rights management platform for cloud-based data sets that allows companies to build data-driven business models around their IoT and other data. The Modulus platform is unique in providing: Secure digital policy and rights management for access control and governance across multiple cloud services and data types and formats, Programmable enterprise policy and privacy management with persistent data protection, “Bring Your Own” trusted analytics … More →

Alfresco Governance Services is certified against the DoD 5015.02 CH3

Alfresco Software announced that its Governance Services solution has been certified against the DoD 5015.02 CH3, the Department of Defense (DoD) standard for records management. Alfresco Governance Services delivers a scalable repository which manages content and records of any type, including electronic documents, images, emails, videos, and physical records. It can now be used for managing classified content and records at the highest level of DoD 5015.02 security certification. “We’re excited to announce this certification, … More →

ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus adds two-factor authentication support for Windows logons

ManageEngine announced that it is rolling out two-factor authentication (TFA) support for Windows logons in ADSelfService Plus, its integrated active directory self-service password management and single sign-on solution. With this support, ADSelfService Plus enables organizations to add an extra layer of protection for critical resources that are accessed by users through Windows-based machines. ADSelfService Plus integrates with Windows client (Vista and above) and server (2008 and above) operating systems to provide users a secure logon … More →