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By Michael Gleason, director of product marketing at OneLogin Fun fact: in 2006, Forrester Research estimated that 90 percent of CRM sales were on-premises instances. That means ninety percent of CRM users had to deal with more than just a messy customer database - they had to deal with the hosting, the humans and the hardware necessary to host the application. In 2006, Salesforce.com’s trailing twelve month revenue wasn’t anything to scoff at - it...

A survey carried out this month by Gurucul, a security and fraud analytics technology provider, among 476 IT workers found that a quarter of people spend more than 2 hours a day surfing the web at work, equating to 10 hours a week and a mind-blowing 40 hours a month. In total, that means a quarter of all workers are wasting 3 months a year on non-work related surfing and, when you take the average...

Written by John Czupak, CEO, ThreatQuotient There’s something big brewing in the world of security operations, but what exactly is it? We are regularly inundated with various descriptions of useful tools and capabilities (think Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR), Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs), Security Incident Response (SIR), Hunting and more). Unfortunately, many of us are equally confused about the fundamental capabilities of these technologies, and more pointedly, what problems they aim to solve. Perhaps...

Securonix, Inc., a leader in next-gen SIEM, today announced the launch of its network traffic analysis (NTA) product that will provide bundled Corelight network sensors and use case content. Securonix NTA will be an integral part of the Securonix SIEM product, enabling customers to deploy a single solution that correlates network traffic, security events, and entity context to detect and respond to the most advanced insider and cyber threats. Customers today are struggling to detect...

Securonix, Inc., the leader in Next-Gen SIEM, today announced the general availability of its SOAR 2.0 product. With integrated SIEM, UEBA, and SOAR capabilities, the Securonix Next-Gen SIEM platform provides end-to-end threat detection, investigation, and response enabling customers to significantly reduce their mean time to respond (MTTR) and improve operational efficiency. “Our vision is to provide customers with an end-to-end analytics platform to rapidly detect and respond to advanced threats,” said Tanuj Gulati, CTO and...

KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, reviewed the results of tens of thousands of simulated phishing tests over the course of Q2 2019 and found that more than 50 percent of those related to social media had “LinkedIn” in the title. With this information, organisations need to train their users how to recognise and manage phishing emails that come into the corporate network. KnowBe4’s analysis shows that...

Navisite, a part of Spectrum Enterprise, the enterprise-focused arm of Charter Communications, Inc., and Alert Logic, the SIEMless Threat Management™ company, today announced the availability of an enhanced, fully integrated portfolio of Managed Threat Detection and Remediation services for enterprise cloud clients. Navisite is leveraging Alert Logic’s award-winning SIEMless Threat Management platform to expand security offerings for clients. Alert Logic’s platform is tightly integrated in Navisite’s managed security service, enabling automated threat monitoring and remediation,...

Securonix, Inc., the leader in next-gen SIEM, today announced that it has achieved SOC2 + HITRUST Type 2 certification for the Securonix SaaS environment. This is the latest advancement in Securonix’s ongoing commitment to provide a highly secure and industry compliant environment for protecting and safeguarding client information. The certification validates Securonix’s adherence to state and federal security, privacy, and regulatory standards for healthcare data. The Securonix SaaS platform operates on AWS, the most secure...

By Jamie Field, MD, TopLine Film It’s been a tough time for the UK fintech industry. First, Investec pulled the plug on Click & Invest (its robo-advice venture) and, a week later, Loot went into administration. Hendrik du Toit, the co-chief executive of Investec, later said of the fintech industry as a whole: “to think you can create a parallel financial sector to the existing one is a fallacy.” It seems that the fintech industry...

The annual European Cybersecurity Blogger’s Awards, sponsored by Synopsys and hosted by Eskenzi PR, took place on Tuesday night in London. The fun and lively awards ceremony was compered by Canon Europe’s director of information security, Quentyn Taylor and Javvad Malik, security awareness advocate at KnowBe4. Infosecurity bloggers and judges voted for their favourite cybersecurity related blogs, vlogs, Twitter and Instagram accounts and the results were revealed at the Hand & Flower Pub in Olympia....