Tag: Cybersecurity
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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Gartner recognizes 10 security service edge (SSE) vendors in its latest Magic Quadrant ranking for the cybersecurity category. Netskope, Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler once again appeared in the sought-after “Leaders” quadrant in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for security service edge (SSE) vendors, according to the report released Thursday. The three vendors in the…
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‘This case is not only novel, but also threatens to undermine cybersecurity by making it more difficult for companies to respond to increasingly sophisticated and highly-resourced cyber-threats,’ the Software Alliance wrote in an amicus filing with the U.S. District Court Southern District of New York Friday. A software trade group says a case pursued by…
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Nick Schneider, president and CEO of the security operations platform provider, tells CRN that ‘the days of managing a bunch of different tools from disparate [vendors] are starting to come to an end.’ The days are numbered for the approach of “leveraging hundreds of different tools” for delivering cybersecurity in a customer’s environment, according to…
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‘ConnectWise has undergone limited organizational changes to improve operations and ensure resources align with our partners’ growth opportunities. As part of these changes, the company has made the difficult decision to eliminate certain colleague positions,’ the company said in a statement. ConnectWise today laid off “certain colleague positions” throughout the company to improve operations and…
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