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A part of the industry for around twenty years, DomainTools uses active and passive DNS (Domain Name System) data to create cybersecurity intelligence for its customers. Tim Durant, Vice President of Channels and Alliances, explained:  “DNS is like the fingerprints or the activity on the internet. So we’re mapping all those fingerprints.”   With unique sets of data, providing a different picture of cyber threat infrastructure than that which is typically provided, governments, enterprises, and other...

Salt Security, the API security company, has been accepted as part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, to address the prevalence of API-driven businesses, along with how to secure them and not put customers at risk. ISV a co-sell program for AWS Partners who provide software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS. Acceptance, the company says, validates the proven integration of the Salt Security API Protection Platform...

With results from more than 100 professionals in cybersecurity, Armis released a survey that explored the risks and struggles within the industry as the environment changes. As the landscape of cybersecurity changes rapidly, security intel being reported to companies may be constantly outdated. According to the results, while top management in companies in the past 6 months have spent more time involved with cybersecurity concerns, almost 23% of the professionals surveyed believed that board members...

KnowBe4, the provider of security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, has conducted a survey during Infosecurity Europe, which evaluated the opinions of nearly 200 security professionals towards security culture, or more specifically: the ideas, customs and social behaviours of an organisation that influence their security practices. The research found the threat of cyber warfare (30%) or experiencing a data breach or cyberattack (30%) were the two biggest reasons why security professionals wanted to improve...

The UK Cyber Security Council, International Cyber Expo and ITN Business will be co-creators of a unique news-style programme produced to raise awareness and understanding of cyber security. The Information Age has brought enormous economic and social progress to many parts of the world and has proved to be a powerful tool for connectivity, freedom and innovation. The rise in ever more sophisticated internet-based technologies will further accelerate the way organisations and communities communicate and...

Virsec has come a long way in the past few years. As recently as 2017, its technology only focused on memory protection. 5 years, $137 million in funding and the addition of host and feedback protection later, the company is looking to revolutionise cybersecurity, quite literally, from the inside out.  Greg Kelton, Regional Director of Europe at Virsec, is on the frontlines of that revolution. The enemy? Dwell time. “We’re seeing a monumental shift in...

“Identity is the number one security concern.” Tim Nursall, Field Engineer at Illusive spoke at Infosecurity Europe last week on identity risk and the Analysing Identity Risks Report.   --  So, what is identity risk? With the migration of networks to the cloud and the overall shift towards remote work and off-premises devices, the historically understood network perimeter has changed entirely. Through endpoint vulnerabilities and privileged credentials, attackers can now breach a system through a multitude...

“An attacker only has to be right once, but the defender must be right all the time.” Etay Maor, Sr. Director of Security Strategy of Cato Networks, disagrees. According to him, this is one cybersecurity myth he wishes to dispel.   --  Cato Networks, a cloud-native service that offers network connectivity and security to its customers, was represented at Infosecurity Europe in London 2022 by Senior Director of Security Strategy, Etay Maor. Having researched into patterns...

With over a decade experience in software security, what can Synopsys teach us? Managing Consultant Adam Brown presented this very subject at Infosecurity Europe 2022, with the help of Synopsys’s BSIMM metrics. The Building Security in Maturity Model (BSIMM) is an assessment done by Synopsys that helps firms analyse the state of their software security. This understanding then allows these firms to repair where they are going wrong. Currently on the 12th iteration of BSIMM,...