Tag: Cybersecurity
The new module quantifies the risk of ransomware and data exfiltration for third-party vendors, while combining the signals with first-party and SaaS risk, Safe Security CEO Saket Modi tells CRN. Safe Security is taking a new approach to quantifying third-party cyber risk with the debut of a new tool that represents a “massive” opportunity for…
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Part 7 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the startup companies solution providers should know in the big data arena. Big Data, Big Plans The majority of the companies on the CRN 2024 Big Data 100 are either major IT vendors like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Oracle, or younger – albeit…
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“We believe there will be added demand because a combined portfolio is more interesting,” IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said on an earnings call. IBM executives painted the planned $6.4 billion purchase of cloud infrastructure tools vendor HashiCorp as complementary to multiple business segments – including fellow open-source tools provider Red Hat – even as IBM…
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Building on its roots as a fast-growing VAR, the company is continuing its evolution into a provider of automation-driven technologies with the launch of its security posture as a service offering, executives tell CRN. IP Pathways is continuing its evolution into a provider of automation-driven technologies with the launch of its security posture as a…
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In an interview with CRN, the industry veteran says AI platform provider Dataminr is on track for $200 million in revenue and headed for an IPO. Dataminr has poached an executive from another cybersecurity IPO candidate with the hire of industry veteran Brian Gumbel as its new president, the company told CRN exclusively. Gumbel, who’d…
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The data security firm becomes the first cybersecurity vendor to go public in more than two years. Rubrik completed its initial public offering Wednesday, becoming the first cybersecurity vendor to go public in more than two years. The offering saw high demand from investors and the data security firm priced its IPO shares at $32…
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‘HashiCorp has a proven track record of enabling clients to manage the complexity of today’s infrastructure and application sprawl,’ says IBM CEO Arvind Krishna in a statement Wednesday. Tech giant IBM has confirmed its intention to buy Terraform creator and cloud infrastructure tools vendor HashiCorp for $6.4 billion, a deal set to close by the…
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“Our priority is to continue improve our zero trust end point platform with continued R&D, making it more and more accessible to more and more MSPs and more businesses that never even dreamed about having proper security in place,” said ThreatLocker co-founder and CEO Danny Jenkins MSP security powerhouse ThreatLocker, which has doubled its revenue…
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“We [are] large scale looking for — I’ll call it the ‘unknown unknown breaches’ — that are out there,’ says Eric Harmon, Trustwave CEO. ‘We develop over 1,000 proprietary use cases that are tied to that research that go into our MDR and our product offerings. We’re continuing to differentiate by finding things that others…
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The flaws impact Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense software and have been exploited in a state-sponsored campaign against global governments as far back as November, the company says. Cisco Systems disclosed two zero-day firewall vulnerabilities Wednesday that the tech giant said have been exploited by a state-sponsored attacker in an espionage campaign…
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