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Vectra Raises $100 Million Led By TCV To Secure The Cloud Using Network Threat Detection And Response.

Vectra today closed a $100 million round of funding led by TCV, one of the largest growth equity firms backing private and public technology companies. Existing investors also participated in the funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to date to more than $200 million. Vectra will use the investment to accelerate global market expansion and R&D innovation, solidifying its Cognito platform as the market-leading solution for artificial intelligence (AI)-driven cloud security using network detection...

Proofpoint Named A Leader In Enterprise Email Security.

Proofpoint, Inc., (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced it has been named a leader in enterprise email security in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Email Security, Q2 2019. The report provides a detailed overview of the enterprise email security market and evaluates vendors based on their current offering, strategy, and market presence. In the Forrester Wave report, which evaluated today’s leading enterprise email security solutions, it was noted that “customers praised Proofpoint...

The Results Are In – Europe’s Best Cybersecurity Bloggers Announced!

The annual European Cybersecurity Blogger’s Awards, sponsored by Synopsys and hosted by Eskenzi PR, took place on Tuesday night in London. The fun and lively awards ceremony was compered by Canon Europe’s director of information security, Quentyn Taylor and Javvad Malik, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4. Infosecurity bloggers and judges voted for their favourite cybersecurity related blogs, vlogs, Twitter and Instagram accounts and the results were revealed at the Hand & Flower Pub in Olympia....

Domain Spoofing Continues To Baffle Europe’s Leading Cybersecurity Vendors.

New research into the DMARC status of every exhibitor at Europe’s leading infosec event reveals that almost two-thirds are failing to stop scammers impersonate emails purportedly coming from these ‘secure’ brands. “Look, we know from our own customers that this protocol hasn’t been straightforward to deploy and maintain, so we’ve woven this defence mechanism into an automated application, taking the onus off single employees to install and manage,” said Rahul Powar, co-founder and CEO of...

Booking.com And TomTom Committed To Getting More Women Into Tech Roles.

Gillian Tans, President and CEO of Booking.com and Corinne Vigreux, Co-founder of TomTom have spoken on the need to get more women into tech roles to future proof modern companies. Both companies use AI and machine learning in all areas of their businesses and want to see more women working in these fields. Speaking on Monday 3 June at the annual FORTUNE Most Powerful Women International Summit in London, Gillian Tans said that ‘technology in...

Cybersecurity Mishaps Make Customers Think Twice About Signing Up To A Brand’s Services.

An increased awareness of data security has meant that almost half of UK consumers (49%) now consider the cybersecurity credentials of a company before signing up to its services, according to new research from open source pioneer, SUSE. The survey also revealed a lack of knowledge and concerns around exactly what customer data is held by companies, with the majority of UK respondents (71%) admitting to being unaware of what kind of data is collected...

Fingerprint Biometric Technology – The Key To Getting To ‘Know Your Customer’.

By David Orme, Senior Vice President at IDEX Biometrics With cybercriminals becoming ever-more sophisticated, and identity fraud reaching epidemic levels in the UK, the need for strict customer identification procedures has never been greater for banks and financial institutions. Know Your Customer, or KYC as it is commonly known, is a mandatory framework currently in place to protect financial institutions from fraudulent activities, such as identity fraud and money laundering. KYC, reinforced by the fourth...

Cybersecurity Platform Allows Firms To Provide Proof Of Compliance.

ThreatAware - the cybersecurity monitoring and compliance platform - has added a new reporting feature which provides businesses with a full audit trail on any aspect of their IT security. It allows users to create a full report on the status of their cybersecurity and record any actions they have taken - whether they are preparing for an ISO audit and want to show they are complying with security standards, to demonstrate their response to...

T Minus 7 Days Until European Data Protection Summit Kicks Off.

The countdown to this year’s European Data Protection Summit is underway. With just 7 days to go and the first anniversary of GDPR on 25 May 2019, organisers are in the final stages of planning the prestigious conference, which takes place at 133 Houndsditch, London on the 3rd of June this year. The European Data Protection Summit 2019 will welcome over 700 attendees from data protection, privacy and security disciplines, feature over 50 industry expert...

One Year Down: GDPR By The Numbers.

By Mike Kiser, Global Strategist and Evangelist, SailPoint Today marks the first anniversary of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Europe’s data privacy regulation shook up the privacy world by imposing penalties for some of the strongest consumer protection laws of the last 20 years and inspired even stricter laws in other parts of the world. GDPR created a single breach-notification regulation for the entire EU with the goal of protecting personal data of...