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Armis, the unified asset visibility and security platform provider, has announced the appointment of Michael Carpenter to Armis’ Board of Directors. As the President of Global Sales and Field Operations at Crowdstrike, he was instrumental in expanding the sales organisation worldwide and generating business growth at incredible scale. This led to its IPO in 2019 and he has maintained the company’s tremendous growth today. Prior to Crowdstrike, Carpenter served as president, Global Sales and Field...

CyberSmart has today announced the completion of a successful over-subscribed Series A funding round, bringing the total raised to over $10 million. Alongside deeptech fund IQ Capital and with the additional support of InsurTech specialist, Eos Venture Partners, and data science focused Winton Ventures, CyberSmart is set to further disrupt the cybersecurity market. The funding will be used to enhance their product’s capabilities further, invest in channel partnerships as well as scale into the UK...

One Identity, the identity-centric security company, today announced the appointment of four executives that bring a wealth of software-as-a-service (SaaS) expertise to the organisation. The appointment of Rima Pawar as Vice President of Product Management, Joe Garber as Vice President of Marketing, Teri Robb as Vice President of North American Sales and Chris Wood as Vice President of Sales for One Identity and Quest Software Asia-Pacific Japan (APJ) enables One Identity to continue to capitalise...

Yet another year has passed, and so too has another evening celebrating the industry’s best bloggers, podcasters, and social media personalities! Unfortunately, we’ve had to skip the pub again and opt for a virtual awards ceremony but as usual, we remain consistent with the alcohol supply. Thanks to our sponsors Qualys and KnowBe4, cocktail kits were delivered for free to all attendees based in the UK to accompany an online cocktail-making class provided by Patrick Fogarty of Doctor Ink’s Curiosities/Stir Crazy. Those outside...

Synopsys, Inc. has just recently announced that it has acquired Code Dx, provider of an award-winning application security risk management solution that automates and accelerates the discovery, prioritisation, and remediation of software vulnerabilities. This move by the software giant will allow customers to receive consolidated risk reporting and prioritisation across correlated software vulnerability data produced by Synopsys solutions and more than 75 third-party and open-source application security and development products. Prior to the acquisition, Code...

The Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (CyRC) has exposed three separate denial of service vulnerabilities in open source message broker applications. Message brokers are used in software systems to enable multiple independent components to reliably and robustly exchange information. RabbitMQ, EMQ X, and VerneMQ are three open source message brokers. In each, CyRC research uncovered input that causes the message broker to consume large amounts of memory, resulting in the application being terminated by the operating system. Message...

Due to the introduction of the EU Directive on Security of Network and Information Systems in 2016, cybersecurity measures are becoming increasingly important, especially for critical infrastructure such as electricity or water supply, or for large industrial companies. Our concise online conference will explore the ongoing technical challenges faced in securing critical infrastructure against potential cyber-attacks. Over one half-day, cybersecurity experts will share valuable knowledge and experiences, with a practical demonstration of solutions delivered by...

One Identity has announced the availability of its Active Roles and Password Manager products in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model. The company also announced a new SaaS-delivered solution, Starling CertAccess, which delivers access request and access certification to help organisations leverage Active Directory (AD) and Azure Active Directory (AAD) in the enterprise. This announcement, coupled with the company’s previous news that its Identity Manager and Safeguard products are now available as SaaS offerings, is the...

The Eskenzi Cyber Book and Film Club delves into some of the themes that emerge from Christian Espinosa’s best-selling book, ‘The Smartest Person in the Room: The Root Cause and New Solution for Cybersecurity’. Chaired by co-founder of Eskenzi PR, Neil Stinchcombe, Christian is joined by Stephen Khan – Head of Tech and Cyber Security Risk at HSBC and Chair of ClubCISO as well as Erika Lance – Senior VP of People Operations at KnowBe4. Together, they discuss: The value of cybersecurity certification and training How...

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, has announced a new product feature called PhishFlipTM, which turns real-world phishing attacks into safe, simulated phishing templates. A majority of data breaches begin with a phishing attack and the threat continues to grow. According to the fourth quarter 2020 Phishing Activity Trends Report by the Anti Phishing Working Group, phishing attacks doubled in 2020, growing from 100,000 in January to 200,000 in...