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 DomainTools and Farsight Security, Inc., the leaders in DNS-based cyber threat intelligence, today announced a partnership to deliver Farsight's market-leading DNSDB data via the DomainTools Iris investigation platform. Farsight DNSDB is the world’s largest historical DNS database, containing more than 13 billion DNS observations. This resource, combined with DomainTools’ comprehensive domain profile data, empowers security analysts to conduct complete investigations within Iris. Instead of toggling between multiple threat portals, analysts enjoy a more streamlined workflow...

FireMon, the global leader in Network Security Policy Management (NSPM), today announced an extension of its Intelligent Policy Automation framework to now include automated policy implementation for Palo Alto Networks® devices. FireMon introduced its Intelligent Policy Automation framework last year. The framework is designed to reduce the manual effort and unnecessary security risk associated with complex network implementations by ensuring processes are in place to make the correct change as quickly as possible. By focusing...

Private details of 2.5 MILLION PlayStation and Xbox users are leaked in major hack that is only now being disclosed. The Guru reached out to several cybersecurity experts for their thoughts on this breach. Robert Capps, VP of business development at NuData Security: "The recently disclosed data theft from the unofficial PlayStation and Xbox forums is yet another example of the need for consumers to be wary of who they provide their information to, online. ...

SecureAuth Corporation, the leader in adaptive access control, today reveals that many organisations are waking up to the data breaches of 2016 and are adopting a fundamentally new approach to authentication. With a stark 83% (4 in 5) of IT decision makers (ITDMs) predicting their organisations will be passwordless in five years’ time, it is evident organisations are moving beyond passwords, and even simple two-factor authentication (2FA) to stronger methods to prevent the misuse of...

AlienVault®, the leading provider of Unified Security Management™ (USM™) and crowdsourced threat intelligence, today announced that it ended 2016 with more than 53 percent year-over-year sales growth and increased its install base by over 65 percent to more than 5,000 commercial customers. The company enjoyed broad validation and acceptance from a range of industries and companies of all sizes, including retailers, manufacturers, healthcare organizations, financial institutions and government agencies. New customers added in 2016 included...

NSFOCUS, a global provider of intelligent hybrid security solutions, today announced the launch of its Global Threat Intelligence platform. In the world of cyber attacks, 2016 may go on record as the worst year the enterprise has ever seen. With more than 18 million samples of known malware, the first DDoS attack exceeding 1 TBps, ransomware attacks using municipal and industrial IoT devices, and predictions of global annual cybercrime costs reaching $6 trillion by 2021,...

RiskIQ, the leader in digital threat management, today released its annual malvertising report which indicates a sharp spike in malvertising in 2016, a digital threat that has become increasingly challenging for organisations to detect and mitigate. Delivered through ad networks such as Google and Facebook, threat actors use malvertising to propagate malware, ransomware, and scams (disingenuous advertising), as well as redirect victims to phishing pages and pages hosting exploit kits. “Malvertising is so nefarious because...

Veracode, a leader in protecting enterprises from today’s pervasive web and mobile application threats, has released new research revealing nearly half (45%) of NHS trusts scan for application vulnerabilities just once a year, with less only 8% doing so on a daily basis. This potentially leaves them with outdated software and at an increased risk of a cyberattack, potentially exposing patient data to the wrong hands.  The new findings were gleaned from a Freedom of...

Positive Technologies has discovered a critical vulnerability in Schneider Electric StruxureWare Data Center Expert. The product from Schneider Electric, designed to monitor physical infrastructure at data centers, is used by banks, media corporations, circuit board manufacturers, insurers, medical centers, and other companies to manage the functioning of everything from cooling to backup generators at data centers. The vulnerability is rated 7.6 on the CVSS v3 scale, a high score that reflects the ability of an...

Tenable Network Security®, Inc., a global leader in cybersecurity,  today makes available Tenable.io™, the industry’s first cloud-based vulnerability management platform to secure the full range of assets in the modern elastic IT environment. According to a recent Gartner report, “organizations with large or growing cloud, virtualization and DevOps deployments must select a solution with these asset demographics in mind, and must consider a vendor’s current and future commitment to these technologies.” The challenge for most...