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Cato Networks has recently reported its 2021 business results, showing a growing revenue by 96% YoY, increasing headcount by 66%, and a doubling in valuation to $2.5 billion with an added $200 million investment.    In a new Total Economic Impact (TEI) study, Forrester Research found that Cato delivers 246% ROI in under six months. Along with performance improvements, increased security posture, and reduced operational and maintenance costs, the study found IT teams experienced higher employee morale, which is particularly...

Yesterday, Illusive released its Analysing Identity Risks (AIR) 2022 report, which examines the unmanaged, misconfigured and exposed identity risks within organisations. The report shows that all organisations are vulnerable to attack, despite the deployment of privileged account management (PAM), multi-factor authentication (MFA) and other identity and access management (IAM) solutions. Illusive's security teams witnessed these blind spots firsthand in the financial services, healthcare, and retail sectors. According to Gartner®, “Many breaches are caused by security...

This week, the NHS reported a data leak incident to the Information Commissioner's Office, which puts third-party contractor cybersecurity risks in the spotlight.   What happened? A former employee of PSL Print Management, a consultancy used by the NHS, requested all emails and text messages regarding his employment at the company. PSL obliged, but sent him a USB stick that seemingly contained the company's entire email server contents, including thousands of patient letters that contained...

Two UK cybersecurity companies Searchlight Security, the provider of specialist deep and dark web monitoring products, and Omniscope, the digital threat intelligence and investigations business, have announced a partnership that brings next-level threat intelligence to enterprise customers and law enforcement agencies alike. The solution combines Omniscope’s Smarti3 Intelligence platform for open-source threat intelligence of the web, including deep web social media, with Searchlight Security’s DarkIQ and Cerberus products for monitoring and investigating the deep and...

Next week, UK Research and Innovation's Digital Security by Design (DSbD) challenge's Four Nations Roadshow begins. The roadshow will journey across England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland and will feature talks from multiple speakers highlighting the developments in computing across the decades, the state of computing in the present day, and how we can move towards a safer, more secure future. DSbD is an initiative supported by the UK government to transform digital technology and create...

BlackBerry Limited  has released the 2022 BlackBerry Annual Threat Report, highlighting a cybercriminal underground which it says has been optimised to better target local small businesses. Small businesses will continue to be an epicentre for cybercriminal focus as SMBs facing upward of 11 cyberthreats per device per day, which only stands to accelerate as cybercriminals increasingly adopt collaborative mindsets.   The report also uncovered cyber breadcrumbs from some of last year’s most notorious ransomware attacks,...

One Identity, the provider of unified identity security, has announced the availability of One Identity Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), enabling businesses to support governance and privileged access for cloud infrastructure objects. The company said this innovation along with other new releases such as its Application Governance module and a new connector to Microsoft Teams, all underpin One Identity’s cloud-first Unified Identity Security Platform, and will allow customers to take yet another step forward in...

TSB has released data ahead of Valentine's day showing how dating sites are "riddled with scammers". Unfortunately, it has shown that women were targeted in two-thirds of the cases it analysed and the average age of those scammed was 47 years old. The average amount of money swindled from women was £6,300 compared with men at £4,600.   Robert Rendell, VP of payment solutions at Feedzai, said of romance scams: "These scams are about coercion...

DomainTools has announced the availability of DomainTools Iris Detect, an innovative new product designed to discover and monitor domain names spoofing brands, trademarks, or other domains with unprecedented speed, accuracy, and comprehensiveness. Building on the world’s largest databases of domain registration and Domain Name System (DNS) data developed by DomainTools and Farsight Security, the discovery engine underpinning Iris Detect identifies some 350,000 new domains every day—far more than any other technology available. In fact, in a 12-hour period earlier...

In December 2021, Gartner® reviewed its earlier predictions about API attacks, commenting, "On Target: 2017 Prediction — By 2022, API abuses will be the most-frequent attack vector resulting in data breaches for enterprise web applications…. As 2022 approaches, this prediction could arguably be counted as "missed" — but only because we underestimated the steep rise in attacks on APIs.   Now, Salt Security, the API security company, has announced it has received $140 million in Series...