Press Releases

Mobile cybersecurity specialists, Lookout, has acquired CipherCloud, a cloud-native security company that operates in the emerging Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) market. Through this acquisition, which combines the Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security with the CipherCloud SASE technologies, Lookout believes it is in the best position to provide industry’s first end-to-end platform that secures an organisation’s entire data path from endpoint to cloud.    Given the rise in the number of remote users and the rapid adoption of cloud technology, the need for...

AT&T has announced it is expanding its portfolio of Managed Security Services through its alliance with Fortinet to make Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) a reality for enterprises. AT&T SASE with Fortinet is the first, global managed SASE solution at scale that unifies software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) with essential network security functions of the SASE framework and 24x7 management. The company notes that this powerful combination of people, processes, and technology will help enterprises to...

Feedzai, a cloud-based risk management platform, has announced its Financial Crime Report Q1, 2021. Feedzai’s data from financial transactions across the world shows a stark difference in consumer behaviour and financial crime in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region as compared to Europe (EU) and North America (NA). A clear image appears - a hyper-digital world where east and west are in different recovery stages, reflecting different regional financial crime trends. Overall, 2020 allowed fraudsters to rejoice at...

Edgescan, providers of the award winning Fullstack Vulnerability Management™ range of services, today announces its partnership with BSI, the business improvement company. The partnership will enable BSI clients to access Edgescan’s Continuous Vulnerability Management, API Security Assessments, Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) and Application Testing services, which can be tailored to meet their customer’s priorities. Stephen O’Boyle at BSI said: “We are delighted to be partnering with Edgescan who have been named highest scoring...

It has always been suspected that security culture and secure behaviour were closely linked, although proof was hard to produce. Today, KnowBe4 released research that shows not only have researchers been able to validate that link, but they also give data that provides conclusive evidence related to the importance of focusing on the human side of security. By examining the behaviour and security culture of 97,661 employees across 1,115 organisations, KnowBe4 has observed that the...

As the transition to remote working has forced many companies' hands for increased or faster adoption of cloud services, One Identity has announced the availability of its new software-as-a-service (SaaS) identity governance and administration (IGA) and privileged access management (PAM) solutions. Based on the One Identity Security Platform and designed with the full IGA and PAM capabilities of its industry-leading solutions, the new SaaS offerings allow organisations to implement a Zero Trust model and are...

BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in Latin America, which has just launched its new retail bank BTG+, and Feedzai, the financial crime management platform, just announced a partnership that will strengthen the bank's ability to monitor financial transactions using advanced machine learning. The partnership between the two companies also includes Pix monitoring, the new instant payments system that launched on November 16, 2020. Feedzai's financial crime management platform also monitors real-time transactions that go...

Nozomi Networks Inc., the leader in OT and IoT security, today announced that Barmak Meftah has joined Nozomi Networks’ board of directors. Recognized globally as one of the most successful business leaders in enterprise security, Mr. Meftah has more than 25 years of experience building market-leading enterprise SaaS and cybersecurity companies. Most recently, he was President of AT&T Cybersecurity, a role he assumed after the acquisition of AlienVault, where he served for six year as...

As a result of a demanding market, developers have often foregone security for speed with security teams typically tagged on at the very end of the development lifecycle. This, however, is an unsustainable, if not unacceptable stance, in today’s environment. The future requires organisations to integrate security from the beginning when the application is built. They need to be able to adapt efficiently to protect new architectures as well as consistently improve on performance. Those...

One Identity today announced the sustained momentum of its One Identity Partner Circle program, highlighting the importance of the identity-centric security market. The global program saw a 15% increase in year-over-year channel sales, with 67% of its global company sales and 81% of EMEA sales being linked to channel partners.  A recent global One Identity partner survey conducted across all partner types indicated a high level of satisfaction in working as a partner with a...