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Net Consulting Ltd., a specialised digital consultancy and managed-services provider for the public and private sectors, has announced it has become a Palo Alto Networks Cortex® XMDR Specialization partner, joining a select group of channel partners who have earned the distinction. Net Consulting has proven its operational capabilities and fulfilment of business requirements as well as completed technical, sales enablement and specialisation examinations. The Cortex XMDR Specialization allows Net Consulting to combine the power of best-in-class Cortex...

CrowdStrike (Nasdaq: CRWD), the cloud-delivered protection of endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data organisation, has announced that its strategic investment arm, Falcon Fund, has invested in Salt Security, the leader in Application Programming Interface (API) security. In addition to the investment, Salt Security and CrowdStrike are partnering to bring together leading technology to apply API discovery and runtime protection on applications, and enable security testing to harden APIs before release. "With the proliferation and use of...

Nominations are now open for the seventh annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards. Whether educating the public, fighting cybercrime on the frontlines or mentoring a newcomer, these awards supported by the IT Security Guru are an opportunity to acknowledge the people who make the industry great, and keep us safe online. Among other long-standing categories, the awards this year will also recognise the individuals who go above and beyond to promote greater diversity and inclusion...

CREST, the international not-for-profit, membership body representing the global cyber security industry, in consultation with the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), has launched the OWASP Verification Standard (OVS), a new quality assurance standard for the global application security industry. CREST OVS provides mobile and web app developers with greater security assurance and accredited organisations with enhanced access to the growing app development industry. CREST OVS measures an organisation’s ability to execute and deliver assessments...

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,...

By Dan Conrad, AD Security and Management Team Lead at One Identity Authentication is one of the hottest topics in cybersecurity right now. As biometrics, MFA, and a range of other authentication methods continue to threaten the password’s supremacy, we thought it was worth finding out what industry professionals thought about it all. So that’s what we did. At InfoSecurity Europe 2022, One Identity surveyed more than 100 security and IT professionals to get a...

New research has revealed the top email subjects clicked on in phishing tests were those related or from Human Resources, according to the latest 'most clicked phishing tests' conducted by KnowBe4. In fact, half of those that were clicked on had subject lines related to Human Resources, including vacation policy updates, dress code changes, and upcoming performance reviews. The second most clicked category were those send from IT, which include requests or actions of password...

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...

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,...

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...