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Cybersecurity companies KnowBe4 and OneLogin have partnered with Security Serious in a bid to set a brand new Guinness World Records title for the Most views of a cyber security lesson video on YouTube in 24 hours. The record will be attempted on the 14th of October 2021, during European Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Security Serious Week, with the video available to view for a 24-hour period. This record has never been attempted before and will be an official Guinness World Records title...

Armis, the unified asset visibility and security platform provider, has announced Desiree Lee as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Data, reporting directly to Nadir Izrael, co-founder and Global CTO at Armis. Lee’s appointment, the company says, reinforces its strategic commitment to ensuring total visibility of all assets and devices in its customers’ eco-systems. Armis allows clients to see all their associated devices, along with risk and behavioural profiles, delivering an ability to rapidly...

Lookout, Inc., an integrated endpoint-to-cloud security company, today announced the industry’s first Zero Trust access solution that dynamically adapts to changes in the risk levels of mobile endpoints and users as well as the sensitivity level of data. The solution is an expansion of Lookout Continuous Conditional Access (CCA), achieved by integrating the company's Mobile Endpoint Security and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions. Lookout is the first SASE vendor to use native real-time device and user risk...

Red Canary, a security ally for businesses, has recently announced a number of significant updates to its SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)-based Security Operations Platform. Companies of all sizes around the world already use the Red Canary solution to detect threats, respond to incidents and improve their security operations. The original platform offers customers effective MDR (Managed Detection and Response), which has the ability to run alongside other leading XDR platforms, creating a multi-layered security defence. The new...

This week, Cybereason and Smarttech247 have announced a partnership to enable joint customers to detect and end cyber-attacks on endpoints anywhere on their networks. With businesses today facing a constant barrage of cyber threats, including destructive ransomware attacks and other malicious activity, it is vital for organisations to be best prepared for the worst-case scenario. This partnership aims to do exactly that; reduce the risk of attack. The two companies will work toward reducing this...

Being struck by ransomware has been compared to having a heart attack. It’s something that stalks everyone in theory and yet when it happens the shock of the experience is always a surprise. For the first seconds, minutes - and sometimes hours - organisations are on their own. It’s a moment of unexpected trauma which many organisations find paralysing, something attackers plan for. This makes the attack’s effects even worse. Eventually a growing number call...

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, will be hosting KB4-CON EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) on the 23rd of September 2021. The European virtual event is an extension of the highly successful KB4-CON US event, which the company says attracted over 10,000 registrants. The cybersecurity-focused event is designed for any CISO, security awareness training administrator and cybersecurity professional in the EMEA region. KB4-CON EMEA is a...

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden hosted executives from major technology, financial and energy companies for a summit on national cybersecurity, saying that the issue was “the core national security challenge we are facing.” At the start of the meeting, whilst talking to reporters in attendance, President Biden estimated that approximately 500,000 US cybersecurity jobs are available, putting emphasis on the fact that the private sector needed to be doing more to safeguard digital systems from...

T-Mobile, one of the world's largest telecommunications providers and mobile networks, admitted this week that over 40 million customers had been impacted by a data breach. With a reported 104 million T-Mobile customers, this latest breach has hit a significant number of the user base. The company released a statement saying "a highly sophisticated cyberattack" was to blame for the exposure. Of the information breached, social security numbers, names, phone numbers, and account pins were...

Armis, the unified asset visibility and security platform provider, today announced Oscar Miranda as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Healthcare. His appointment, the company says, further reinforces Armis' strategic commitment to securing the healthcare sector, particularly when it comes to identifying and providing mitigation steps for vulnerabilities associated with connected devices within the healthcare ecosystem.   According to a recently published article by Fortified Health Security (Fortified), a strategic partner of Armis, more...