Tag: Cybersecurity
Major vendors including Cisco, Splunk, Google Cloud and IBM unveiled new security products Monday to kick off RSA Conference 2024. RSAC Hot Products RSA Conference 2024 is just getting underway in San Francisco and, already, an array of new cybersecurity products have been unveiled by major vendors. We’re featuring 10 of the new security tools…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says in a memo sent to staff that ‘if you’re faced with the tradeoff between security and another priority, your answer is clear: Do security.’ In a memo sent to employees, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella responded to a recent scathing federal report on the company’s security practices by urging staff to…
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“I’ve been trying to take everything that’s been negative about this and … turn it into some sort of positive,” Robert Cioffi said in an interview. Robert Cioffi, chief technology officer and co-founder of Progressive Computing, one of the MSPs hit in the 2021 Kaseya ransomware attack, traveled about 1,500 miles from his home in…
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‘We talk internally a lot about being a $300 billion market cap company by the 2040s, and we don’t think that’s far-fetched,’ said John Street, Pax8 founder and former CEO. ‘We really are in good shape, the star of this show is the total addressable market.’ Scott Chasin taking over the helm as Pax8’s newest…
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Tony Safoian, CEO of Google Cloud all-star partner SADA, talks about winning new Google Workspace customers, Insight’s Microsoft practice and his bullish thoughts on Google’s AI strategy. After Insight Enterprises acquired Google Cloud superstar SADA for $410 million a few months ago, SADA CEO Tony Safoian said he is bullish about the new cloud customer…
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The company says there’s ‘no evidence that the threat actor accessed the contents of users’ accounts’ in the breach of its Dropbox Sign service. Dropbox disclosed that its eSignature service, Dropbox Sign, was compromised and authentication data such as hashed passwords, API keys and OAuth tokens for some users were accessed. Certain customer information and…
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Yaroslav Vasinskyi, 24, must also pay more than $16 million in restitution. Yaroslav Vasinskyi, a Ukrainian national accused in the July 2, 2021, ransomware attack against MSP tools vendor Kaseya, has been sentenced in the United States to 13 years and seven months in prison for his role in more than 2,500 ransomware attacks. Vasinskyi…
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‘We’re pretty comfortable with the vision of where we’re taking this. We truly believe that we will continue to lead the market if we just stay focused, we execute and we listen to our partners and deliver the value that they’re asking for, and that’s exactly what we’re going to do,’ says Pax8 CEO Scott…
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As UnitedHealth’s CEO gets grilled by a U.S. Senate committee, the folly of acquiring a company with outdated cybersecurity practices is on display. Among the many lessons from the Change Healthcare cyberattack, one that’s come into clearer focus this week goes something like this: Companies that ignore cybersecurity as part of an M&A process, do…
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‘I can’t imagine a better leader, he’s got terrific vision, he’s got the fire in his belly that I share with him and he’s ready to take it to a whole new level. I’m looking forward to plugging in and being on the ride, but I don’t need to steer the ship,’ Pax8’s John Street…
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