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Company positioned furthest for completeness of vision for second consecutive year. Netskope, the cloud security company, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has recognized the company as a Leader in the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers. In addition to its recognition as a Leader, Netskope is also positioned furthest for its completeness of vision. This is the second consecutive recognition as a Leader positioned furthest for completeness of vision for Netskope. The report...

New, first-of-its-kind research released today by Honeywell (NYSE: HON) shows that removable USB media devices such as flash drives pose a significant – and intentional – cybersecurity threat to a wide array of industrial process control networks. Data derived from Honeywell technology used to scan and control USB devices at 50 customer locations showed that nearly half (44 percent) detected and blocked at least one file with a security issue. It also revealed that 26...

A lack of knowledge and an overreliance on manual change processes is leading many businesses to jeopardise the security of their cloud deployments, global technology services provider Claranet warns today. The warning follows the launch of a report published by McAfee this week, which found that the average business has approximately 14 improperly configured IaaS instances running at any given time and roughly one in every 20 AWS S3 buckets are left wide open to...

Today, Morpheus Data rolled out enhancements to its next-gen multi-cloud management platform (CMP) in support of hybrid IT projects at large enterprises and service providers. Having recently received a Best of VMworld Award for Agile Operations and Automation and achieving the top vendor ranking on WhatMatrix.com for CMP, this announcement reinforces Morpheus’ applicability for commercial platforms like VMware as well as open source and cloud-native frameworks. News highlights include: Expanded OpenStack support Automation with AWS...

Druva Inc., a global leader in cloud data protection and management, today announced the Druva Cloud Platform, Druva’s Data Management-as-a-Service solution, is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Snowball Edge. This solution allows enterprises to freely move data between on-premises and cloud without the lock-in, complexity, and cost of legacy hardware, enabling them to speed up their infrastructure to cloud transition. Organisations are rapidly adopting cloud infrastructure for application services. According to Druva’s recent...

A leading cyber security firm is hiring a new head of marketing to help increase growth in the UK and overseas. Foregenix, which recorded annual sales growth of 35% for the past four years, has hired Eduardo Hotta who will head a marketing team of four. Hotta's brief will include developing localised campaigns in overseas markets which now account for two-thirds of all revenue and continue to raise the profile of the business. Hotta joins...

Following a recent spate of aggressive phishing attacks on NHSmail, Cofense - a cyber-security provider - has shared US client data it has tracked to clarify just how much of a danger future phishing attacks may become in the UK. Entitled Say Ah: A Closer Look at Phishing in the Healthcare Industry, Cofense’s industry brief compares the resilience of the healthcare sector to phishing attacks with other industries monitored by the software provider. Resilience is...

From email addresses to phone numbers, and from places of work to dates of birth, there’s an alarming amount of information about us online. Europeans have lost track of how far their personal data has traveled, which companies or platforms hold information about their identities, or even how much is ‘out there’ about their own children. In short, too many people in Europe have lost control of their personal data. This is one of the...

Don't be fooled if you receive an email masquerading as a job application. The email contains a fraudulent resume that can infect your computer. Targeting HR professionals, the email comes from a large number of different compromised email accounts, with unique sender names and a variety of subject lines, making it difficult to spot. This is a large-scale run of scam emails, which MailGuard has been intercepting over the past week and a half. The...

Neustar®, Inc., a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with VeriSign, Inc. to acquire Verisign’s Security Services customer contracts. The acquisition consists of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection, Managed DNS, DNS Firewall and fee-based Recursive DNS services customer contracts. Trusted by the world’s largest brands, Neustar will provide Verisign’s former Security Services’ customers with exceptional service and world-class support backed by a global...