Splunk and cisco unveil a suite of innovations
Friday, February 13, 2026 by Richard Harris
What if you could see every corner of your AI powered systems, predict issues before they arise, and deliver seamless digital experiences, all while fortifying your cybersecurity defenses? Splunk and Cisco are bringing that outcome within reach through a suite of platform, observability, and security advancements that help teams move faster with confidence in an agentic...
Salesforce data breach linked to Tenable via Salesloft Drift
Friday, September 12, 2025 by Richard Harris
A recent Salesforce data breach involving the Salesloft Drift integration has affected multiple organizations, including cybersecurity company Tenable. The company confirmed that limited customer contact and support case data were exposed but emphasized that no core product data was compromised.
Scope of exposed information
Tenable reported that information access...
Salesforce breach let hackers steal Google customer data
Monday, August 25, 2025 by Richard Harris
In June, one of Google’s corporate Salesforce instances was affected by activity consistent with the UNC6040 campaign described in the post. Google responded by conducting an impact analysis and implementing mitigation steps. The affected instance stored contact information and related notes for small and medium-sized businesses. Investigators confirmed that data ...
Microsoft at Black Hat USA 2025
Monday, August 11, 2025 by Russ Scritchfield
Microsoft will participate in Black Hat USA 2025, scheduled for August 5-7 in Las Vegas, offering attendees a practitioner-driven experience centered on real-world threat intelligence, incident response, and applied AI expertise. The company emphasizes that cybersecurity is most effective when intelligence, tools, and domain expertise are tightly integrated. To that end...
AWS introduces Mithra advanced threat intelligence neural network
Thursday, August 15, 2024 by Austin Harris
In a recent blog post from AWS, Amazon Chief Information Security Officer CJ Moses detailed the robust threat intelligence capabilities that safeguard AWS customers. Through tools like Mithra and MadPot, AWS collects and analyzes vast data, identifying and neutralizing threats with unparalleled accuracy and speed. AWS's proactive approach to sharing high-fidelity th...
ImmuniWeb Neuron web security scanning
Friday, June 10, 2022 by Richard Harris
ImmuniWeb has announced the launch of ImmuniWeb Neuron, a web application and API web security scanning solution that is based on the award-winning ImmuniWeb AI Platform available.
ImmuniWeb Neuron is designed to rapidly scan tens, hundreds, or even thousands of web applications and APIs for vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and misconfigurations. It c...
Cyvatar raises 9 million for cybersecurity as a service model
Monday, June 21, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
Cyvatar announced that it has raised $9 million as part of its Series A financing to help scale and serve its rapidly growing customer base and continue to drive the adoption of its innovative cybersecurity-as-a-service (CSaaS) model.
Cyvatar raises 9 million for cybersecurity as a service model
Escalating cybersecurity breaches and the need to addr...
App tracking transparency and your API calls
Thursday, March 18, 2021 by Richard Harris
Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency feature is billed as a win for consumer data rights, with Apple vying for leadership as a global defender of privacy. But regardless of whether it’s good for you or not, the move has the potential to seriously disrupt apps and APIs that depend on the Identifier for Advertisers or IDFA. What’s more, even if an app d...
Denuvo has joined the PlayStation 5 Tools and Middleware program
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
As security and innovation collide, Denuvo by Irdeto announces it has joined the exclusive PlayStation®5 Tools and Middleware program. Denuvo offers its Anti-Cheat solution through this program to publishers and developers whose games are available on PlayStation®5.
Denuvo is at the forefront of games security with over 2 billion unique game installs pro...
HackNotice announces threat intelligence platform
Friday, September 18, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
HackNotice announced the launch of HackNotice Teams, a cybersecurity management platform powered by actionable threat intelligence and an industry solution to foster a company-wide culture of security. Built on HackNotice Premium’s technology, HackNotice Teams scours the dark web to alert employees of vulnerabilities, compromised information, and data breaches in ...
Experience Center worldwide launches from Microsoft
Monday, November 18, 2019 by Austin Harris
Microsoft has also reimagined the future of work by creating a blueprint for productivity, efficiency, accessibility, flexibility, and collaboration for organizations in the region.
In a world where we can expect more than 40 billion devices generating nearly 80 zettabytes (ZB) of data by 2025, organizations and industries will need to quickly adopt new tec...
Zeroday vulnerability announced byMcAfee at Defcon
Monday, August 19, 2019 by Richard Harris
At DEFCON, McAfee has announced the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability in a commonly used Delta industrial control system.
The vulnerability found in the Delta enteliBUS Manager could allow malicious actors complete control of the operating system, enabling remote manipulation of access control systems, boiler rooms, temperature control for critical systems and mo...
Splunk expands machine learning capabilities
Monday, October 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
Splunk Inc. has announced expanded machine learning capabilities across its product portfolio with the release of their Enterprise 7.0, IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) 3.0, User Behavior Analytics (UBA) 4.0 and updates to their Cloud platform. Splunk also introduced an updated suite of solutions that apply analytics and machine learning to fraud and cloud monitoring use ...
The future of cybersecurity in machine learning
Sunday, July 30, 2017 by Richard Harris
McAfee, a cybersecurity company, has announced several new innovations that expand machine learning and automation capabilities to strengthen human-machine teams. Plus, McAfee announces support of OpenDXL.com, a new, independent collaboration portal that offers forums and free apps, giving OpenDXL users easy access to ideas and resources available for application integr...
Many fintech DevOps are not enforcing security
Tuesday, June 6, 2017 by Austin Harris
Venafi has announced the results of a study on the cryptographic security practices of DevOps teams in the financial services industry. Cryptographic security risks are amplified in DevOps settings, where compromises in development or test environments can spread to production systems and applications. This is a particular issue for financial services organizations, whi...
Intel security becomes McAfee
Tuesday, April 4, 2017 by Austin Harris
McAfee has begun operating as a new standalone company. Built on the belief that “Together is Power,” the new McAfee will expand upon its leading security solutions platform to better enable customers to effectively identify and orchestrate responses to cyber-threats. The launch of McAfee marks the closing of the previously announced investment by TPG and Inte...
Signalling protection from AdaptiveMobile with new SPG
Friday, February 24, 2017 by Austin Harris
AdaptiveMobile announced it's Signalling Protection Gateway (SPG) - expanding its core security offerings with new network integration, deployment and routing capabilities to allow their Signalling Protection to be deployed independently from legacy or capacity limited network infrastructure.The SPG is based on technology from Dialogic’s signalling platform. The partner...
8 cyber security predictions for what's to come in AsiaPacific
Thursday, December 29, 2016 by Austin Harris
Cyber security received heightened interest in 2016 due to a spate of cyber attacks in the region. These included cyber attacks on the database of 55 million voters at the Philippines Commission on Elections (COMELEC), the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI), US$81 million cyber heist at the Bangladesh Central Bank and the massive data leaks as shown by the Yah...
Cyberbit's SOC 3D automation updates and what you should know
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 by Richard Harris
Cyberbit just announced a new version of its SOC 3D automation and orchestration platform that increases productivity and effectiveness of the SOC and substantially reduces incident response times. The new platform integrates with all major SIEM and security solutions, automates SOC runbooks and workflows, and prioritizes incidents according to their business impact. It...
How do we simplify eastwest security The imperative path is upon us
Monday, December 5, 2016 by Keshav Kamble
Ahhh, the endless saga of streamlining hazards around application security: let’s talk about the East-West component of the conundrum. But first, it’s important to clarify the variances of ‘East-West’ vs. ‘North-South’ traffic in a typical data center environment. By definition: North-South traffic is the communication that occurs between server applications deploy...
Intel Security Enhances Unified Defense Architecture
Thursday, November 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
Intel Security has announced an enhanced unified defense architecture designed to empower organizations to more effectively protect a new digital economy of trust, time and money. No longer is our economy a physical one, but one of connected networks and systems where cybercriminals have put us on the defensive. This new second economy, has put us in a world where ...
AdaptiveMobile Adds SS7 Cat 3 Detection Capabilities to Mobile Threat Intelligence Platform
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 by Richard Harris
AdaptiveMobile has announced advanced SS7 “Cat 3” Signalling Protection detection capabilities to its Mobile Threat Intelligence Platform including Network Memory, Location Plausibility, and Remote Intercept. The Company’s advanced threat detection is based on continuous data and analysis with all rules validated with information from across five continents. Adapt...
Exabeam Releases Security Intelligence Platform for Early Detection of Ransomware
Thursday, June 16, 2016 by Richard Harris
Exabeam has released Exabeam Analytics for Ransomware, a new behavior-based security intelligence platform designed for early detection of ransomware across a corporate network. Exabeam can detect ransomware movement and activity in the network, the servers, workstations, BYOD devices, and cloud services.Exabeam detects ransomware as it first enters the network and begi...
Twistlock Releases New Security Platform for Container Environments
Thursday, May 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Twistlock has announced the release of Twistlock Runtime, a set of automated capabilities that defend against active threats targeting container environments. The platform is designed specifically to detect and stop sophisticated runtime attacks – including APTs and zero-day exploits – against containerized applications. Twistlock Runtime is a component within the ...
Webroot Launches New Cybersecurity Service for the Internet of Things
Wednesday, May 11, 2016 by Richard Harris
Webroot has released the Webroot BrightCloud Threat Intelligence for IoT Gateways, which provides a cybersecurity service for Internet of Things (IoT) Gateway partners and developers of IoT solutions to augment real-time protection against malicious threats, unauthorized network access, and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. It provides a set of threat intelligence servic...
Security Startup Provider buguroo Launches New Threat Intelligence Platform
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 by Richard Harris
Security provider buguroo, a U.S. startup and spinoff of Deloitte’s European Security Operations Center (SOC), is launching bugThreats, a threat intelligence platform (TIP) that looks outside the enterprise infrastructure and focuses on useful intelligence gathered where the compromised end users, and their stolen data, are.Focused on intelligence and not protection, bu...
New Report Highlights Wide Ranging Cybersecurity Challenges
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
Cybersecurity Ventures has released its Cybersecurity Market Report for Q3 2015 which provides an overview of software development and application security trends, statistics, best practices, and resources. Highlights of the report include:- “The SANS Institute 2015 State of Application Security Report” states that many information security engineers don’t understa...
OpenDNS Releases Enforcement API for Threat Prevention
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
OpenDNS has announced the availability of its enforcement API, which automatically turns threat intelligence generated by an enterprise’s security and incident response teams into threat prevention, providing real-time protection for users and devices. The company also announced two new partnerships with threat intelligence platform providers ThreatConnect and Thre...
AlienVault Releases Native Solution for AWS Cloud Security and Threat Intelligence
Saturday, April 11, 2015 by Richard Harris
AlienVault has announced the general availability of AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) for Amazon Web Services (AWS). AlienVault USM for AWS is an AWS-native solution that delivers built-in security controls and threat intelligence for IT and security teams to accelerate and simplify threat detection and incident response. USM for AWS is available on AWS Mark...
