Tag: Cybersecurity
The new M-Trends report details how ransomware, zero-day attacks and other major cyber threats evolved last year. The discovery of compromised systems continues to accelerate thanks both to improved detection tools and increased ransomware activity, according to Mandiant’s M-Trends threat report for 2024 that was released Tuesday. The analysis is the 15th annual M-Trends report…
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The cybersecurity powerhouse has hired a number of new C-level executives, including a new CRO this month, as well as building out the leadership team at its federal business. Executive Moves At cybersecurity powerhouse Optiv, the push for growth continues to gain steam with a string of notable executive hires. The series of recent hires…
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Cisco’s Talos research team says it’s monitoring a ‘global increase in brute-force attacks’ against targets including VPN services, while an exploit has been released for a critical vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS firewall software. Hackers continue to escalate their targeting of network security devices and remote access services as a means of breaching customer…
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For the week ending April 12, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Google Cloud, Intel, Wiz, Zscaler, Lumen Technologies and startup solution provider Ensemble AI. The Week Ending April 12 Topping this week’s Came to Win is Google Cloud which used this week’s Google Next…
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The deal is the second acquisition to date for cybersecurity unicorn Armis. Armis announced its acquisition Wednesday of a startup focused on helping organizations prioritize their response efforts to cybersecurity risk. The acquisition of the startup, Silk Security, is the second to date for cybersecurity unicorn Armis. The company said the deal is worth $150…
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These solution providers are focused on an assortment of opportunities in the IoT space, whether it’s protecting industrial systems from cyberattacks, integrating AI-powered surveillance systems or using machine learning models to improve mining and manufacturing operations. When ThingLogix started in 2014, the solution provider spent a significant amount of time building the plumbing and infrastructure…
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Proofpoint, Slack, Tanium, AppDynamics, Palo Alto Networks, Nvidia and Kyndryl were among the tech companies making key executive hires during November 2023. New CEOs of Proofpoint and Slack. A new channel chief at Tanium. And a new chief marketing officer for Cisco subsidiary AppDynamics. Sumit Dhawan, formerly of VMware; Denise Holland Dresser, formerly with Slack…
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G42 ‘will run its AI applications and services on Microsoft Azure’ as part of the deal. Microsoft plans to invest $1.5 billion in an artificial intelligence company based in the United Arab Emirates in exchange for a minority stake and a board of directors seat for Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith. The Redmond,…
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The tech giant has provided a patch for the root escalation vulnerability, which affects a number of devices that run the Cisco Integrated Management Controller. Cisco disclosed a new high-severity vulnerability Wednesday, as well as a patch for the issue, which impacts the Cisco Integrated Management Controller used by numerous devices. The tech giant said…
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The security and observability platform developer is laying off about 325 workers with most of the cuts in North America, according to an SEC filing. Splunk is laying off about 4 percent of its workforce or about 325 employees, the unified security and observability platform developer disclosed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and…
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