Tag: Cybersecurity
In testimony before a U.S. House Homeland Security subcommittee, CrowdStrike’s Adam Meyers said the July outage has prompted a major shift in how the vendor approaches content updates impacting the Windows kernel. CrowdStrike has overhauled its approach to deploying threat-related content updates that impact the Windows kernel in the wake of the massively disruptive July…
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Chik, president of identity and network access at Microsoft, tells CRN that the tech giant’s Secure Future Initiative is succeeding at ‘strengthening’ Microsoft’s corporate security in the wake of major nation-state attacks in recent years. Microsoft’s massive engineering effort to lock down its internal corporate cybersecurity in the wake of major nation-state attacks is producing…
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When it comes to the closet competitors of the security hyperautomation startup, ‘we are years ahead of them,’ Torq CEO Ofer Smadari tells CRN. Torq is planning to deploy its new $70 million funding round — which is the second major fundraise of the year for the security “hyperautomation” startup — to advance its AI-powered…
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‘We all need and expect AI we can trust,’ Microsoft EVP and CMO Takeshi Numoto said. Microsoft introduced a series of new product capabilities aimed at making artificial intelligence systems more secure, including a correction capability in Azure AI Content Safety for fixing hallucination issues in real time and a preview for confidential inferencing capability…
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When it comes to GenAI, the security of the AI models themselves is at risk as ‘data poisoning’ is increasingly taking aim at the training data that large language models rely on to generate responses and make decisions. The future of generative AI all hangs on cybersecurity—but perhaps not in the way you’d think. While…
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A threat actor is reportedly claiming to have posted Dell employee data on a hacker forum. After a threat actor claimed this week to have posted stolen data belonging to Dell Technologies employees, the tech giant disclosed Friday that it’s investigating the allegations. The company has not yet specified whether a security incident has affected…
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Endpoint security tools from CrowdStrike, Microsoft and SentinelOne are reportedly among those impacted by the recently released version of macOS. Endpoint security tools from CrowdStrike, Microsoft and SentinelOne are reportedly among those seeing issues in cases where customers upgraded to Apple’s recently released version of macOS. Reports from outlets including TechCrunch, Apple Insider and BleepingComputer…
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Accenture, Jade Global, Google and Vonage are among the coolest exhibitors from Salesforce Dreamforce 2024. Five solution providers and five vendors are among the hottest companies to exhibit at Salesforce Dreamforce 2024. Accenture and Jade Global are among the solution providers to stand out for their work with the San Francisco-based cloud software vendor and…
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The vendor disclosed that a ‘limited’ number of customers have been attacked through exploits of the flaw affecting its Cloud Service Appliance. Ivanti disclosed Thursday it’s aware of attacks against some customers through exploitation of a newly discovered, critical-severity vulnerability affecting its Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) gateway. It’s the second flaw in Ivanti’s CSA gateway…
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In an interview with CRN, Sophos CEO Joe Levy discusses the future of the Windows kernel and endpoint security after attending the recent Microsoft-hosted summit of EDR vendors. Microsoft continues to signal it has no intention of restricting Windows kernel access to endpoint security vendors in the wake of the massive CrowdStrike-caused outage in July,…
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