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Today, Cato Networks has been named the Leader in the Single-Vendor SASE Quadrant Analysis published in TechTarget. "We're honoured to be identified as the Leader in single-vendor SASE market," says Shlomo Kramer, CEO and co-founder of Cato Networks. "Cato introduced the first worldwide SASE platform in 2016, four years before Gartner defined the term. Since then, we've continued to enhance and extend Cato SASE Cloud as recognized by this award." Why Single-Vendor SASE? While SASE brings...

Today, Outpost24 released a new report revealing the underground operation of Traffers, cybercriminal organisations reshaping the business of stolen credentials. The Rising Threat of Traffers report, compiled by Outpost24’s Threat Intelligence team, KrakenLabs, provides a deep dive into the credential theft ecosystem, and encourages organisations to evaluate their security measures against these evolving threats. Stolen credentials are a major problem for organisations, causing nearly 50% of all data breaches. While businesses are still trying to...

New research released by Specops Software outlines the most common Fortune 500 company names that show up in compromised password data. The Specops research team analysed an 800 million password subset of the larger Breached Password Protection database to obtain these results. Among the top ten, popular household names like Coca-Cola (16,710 appearances), Starbucks (3,800 appearances) and McDonald’s (2,270 times) appear. The most common Fortune 500 company to have been found among passwords in the subset...

When you think of cybersecurity threats, what comes to mind? If you pictured faceless criminals (or a team of them) in a dimly-lit headquarters working tirelessly to steal your most precious digital assets, you’re not alone. Yet, cybercrime doesn’t always look like a scene from a Hollywood movie.   Sometimes, cyber threats are closer to home, making them all the more surprising (and frustrating) for many organizations. They’re called insider threats, and you need to...

Password management and user authentication solutions provider Specops Software has today announced the release of its annual Weak Password Report which analysed over 800 million breached passwords and suggests that passwords continue to be a weak spot in an organisation's network. The study found 88% of passwords used in successful attacks consisted of 12 characters or less, with the most common being 8 characters (24%).  The most common base terms used in passwords were: ‘password’,...

Mobile phishing is an issue plaguing the masses and a growing concern for enterprises, particularly as  2022 had the highest percentage of mobile phishing encounter rates ever, according to Lookout's Global State of Mobile Phishing report. On average, more than 30% of personal and enterprise users exposed to these attacks every quarter. In the U.K., there was a 35% increase in the average number of mobile devices exposed to at least one malicious phishing attack...

Leading AI car video technology supplier, Phyron AI and chat technology provider, konversable have announced a new partnership designed to maximise sales of used cars for retailers. The partnership allows for a WhatsApp Enquiry option to be embedded into Phyron’s AI-generated used car videos, so that a customer can quickly engage with a car they are interested in and instantly start chatting with the dealer over the UK’s most popular messaging app. Speaking of the...

Cato Networks today announced that it was named as a “Leader” and “Outperformer” by GigaOm in the analyst firm’s Radar for SD-WAN Report. This is the first year that Cato was included in the report, alongside 19 other notable vendors in the SD-WAN market. Despite Cato’s “freshman” status, GigaOm rates Cato an Outperformer overall and at the top of the list in both Key Criteria capabilities and Evaluation Metrics. Figure 1: The GigaOm SD-WAN Radar...

After closely monitoring the most active ransomware groups in 2022, the KrakenLabs team at Outpost24 are sharing their latest report that delves deep into the significant ransomware trends, threat groups, victim profiles, and motives behind these attacks from the past year. In total, the researchers identified 2,363 disclosed victims by various ransomware groups on Data Leak Sites (DLS) in 2022. Key facts from the report include: Most active ransomware groups: Existing entities like LockBit, BlackCat, Hive, and...

With the proliferation of cyber attacks in all industries, organizations are beginning to grasp the growing significance of cyber risk and how this is an integral part of protecting and maintaining an efficient business. Ransomware is the single biggest cyber threat to global businesses; in fact, during the first half of 2022 alone, there were a total of 236.1 million cases of ransomware, which reflects the immense risk to which companies of all sizes are...