Tag: Security operations
‘Upon identifying the incident, we promptly implemented our incident response procedures, began investigating, took steps to contain the incident and notified law enforcement,’ said Dell in an email to customers. ‘We have also engaged a third-party forensics firm to investigate this incident.’ Dell Technologies is investigating a security “incident” involving a portal that contains a…
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The nonprofit and Catholic health system said that on May 8 it ‘detected unusual activity on select technology network systems.’ Ascension, a health system with 140 hospitals and operations in 19 states and Washington, D.C., said that its clinical operations were disrupted after it discovered “unusual activity” on some of its network systems Wednesday. The…
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Alongside a number of major product launches, vendors have announced funding and acquisitions — and signed a new CISA-backed security pledge — during the massive security conference in San Francisco this week. In and around the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week, the majority of the biggest names in the cybersecurity industry have had…
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Cisco Systems is announcing a number of security product updates, including a major advancement related to its acquisition of Splunk. Cisco Systems on Monday announced a number of major security product updates at the RSA Conference 2024, including an XDR advancement stemming from its acquisition of Splunk and an expansion of capabilities for its recently…
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Launched at RSAC 2024, the new Google Threat Intelligence offering provides faster protection against threats by combining insights from Mandiant, VirusTotal and Google with GenAI-powered capabilities, the company says. Google Cloud announced a new cybersecurity offering Monday that represents a major advancement by making threat intelligence more automated and “more actionable,” an executive told CRN.…
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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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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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‘For us, it’s about being focused on executing where there’s high demand in IT spend. And recovery, resilience, cyber, AI are the areas where companies are still spending, and that’s where we play,’ says Commvault CFO Gary Merrill. Growth in Commvault’s subscription business led to the data protection technology developer’s overall growth for fiscal 2024.…
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‘One of the things we’ve been really pushing out there is becoming that chief AI strategist … just like a virtual CISO, we’re that virtual person that is out there coming in to assess, making sure you get all your ducks in a row. And then as you go down that path, really handholding you,…
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‘When I look at companies coming out of [Silicon Valley] or out of Boston, even L.A., they don’t have the grit. They don’t have the edge. They don’t have to work for what they have, and that’s why you see a lot of them struggling,’ Voccola told attendees of the Miami Tech Summit last week.…
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