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Salt Security, the API security company, today released the Salt Labs State of API Security Report, Q3 2022. In its latest edition, the bi-annual report found that 94% of survey respondents experienced security problems in production APIs in the past year, with 20% stating their organisations suffered a data breach as a result of security gaps in APIs. In addition, the report found that API attack traffic has doubled in the past 12 months. Together,...

Armis, the unified asset intelligence platform, has joined the premier industry body for financial services in the UK, UK Finance, to help members tackle cybersecurity challenges stemming from managed or unmanaged connected assets in their environments. As an associate member, Armis says it will use the partnership to drive awareness of financial institutions’ risk exposures and the need for real-time visibility of every connected asset. The company hopes the partnership will help organisations prioritise immediate...

Searchlight Security, the dark web intelligence company, has announced a new automated reporting function for their dark web monitoring solution DarkIQ. The new reporting function will help security teams and MSSPs communicate pre-attack intelligence to executives, quickly and efficiently. The DarkIQ platform is a powerful dark web monitoring solution that utilises the most comprehensive dark web dataset on the market. It is the only dark web monitoring tool that keeps track of web traffic to and...

A recent survey has shown that 73.48% of organisations feel they have wasted the majority of their cybersecurity budget on failing to remediate threats, despite having an over-abundance of security tools at their disposal. The survey was conducted by Gurucul among 180 attendees at the 2022 RSA Conference, and asked attendees about their opinions on the biggest threats to security operations and efficiencies.    Results also suggested that only 25% of organisations consider their biggest...

New research has revealed that one in three untrained employees will click on a phishing link, according to the 2022 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report from KnowBe4. With ransomware payments averaging $580,000 in 2021 and business email compromise (BEC) losses topping $1.8 billion in 2020, a cyber attack can wreak havoc on an organisation. Yet, according to the baseline testing conducted for the report, without security training, across all industries globally, 32.4% of employees are likely...

IT Security Guru recently sat down with Michelle McLean, VP of product marketing at Salt Security, to learn more about API security as its own discipline and how it supports cyber resiliency in large enterprises on their digital transformation journeys.  Michelle started her career working as a technology journalist for almost a decade and has since held marketing leadership roles in a variety of enterprise security and software companies, as well as an advisory role...

Outpost24 has announced it has been acquired by Vitruvian Partners to take the company into the next phase of growth. The new ownership structure will enable Outpost24 to invest in its people, processes, and industry-leading technology to further strengthen its leadership position in a large and growing market. Vitruvian has acquired a majority ownership position in the Company, with management and key employees remaining significant minority shareholders. With over 2,500 customers in more than countries,...

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...