Press Releases

Researchers at Chainanalysis have released the ransomware section of their 2023 Crypto Crime report, revealing that ransomware payments fell from $766m in 2021 to $457m in 2022 Chainanalysis was quick to point out that this does not mean attacks are down, or at least not as much as the drastic dropoff in payments would suggest. Much of the decline is due to victim organisations increasingly refusing to pay ransomware attackers.  One major factor in victim...

Keeper Security, the provider of zero-trust and zero-knowledge cybersecurity software protecting passwords, secrets and connections, has provided an update to its Keeper Connection Manager (KCM), which gives DevOps and IT teams instant access to RDP, SSH, database and Kubernetes endpoints through a web browser- with no VPN required. New in version 2.11.0, KCM is now able to interact directly with Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases. This functionality allows organisations to grant administrators access to...

Research from business insurer Hiscox shows that the cost of dealing with cyber events for businesses has more than tripled since 2018. The study, which collated data from the organisation's previous five annual Cyber Readiness reports, has revealed that: Since 2018 the median IT budgets for cyber security more than tripled Between 2020 and 2022 cyber-attacks increased by over a quarter Businesses are increasing their cyber security budgets year-on-year In the Hiscox 2022 Cyber Readiness...

The Outpost24 research team have released the results of attack data gathered from a network of honeypots deployed to gather actionable threat intelligence. In total, 42 million attacks were registered between January 1st and September 30th 2022, with 20 honeypots evenly distributed around the world. Honeypots are, in essence, a trap. They are a decoy system (computer, network, or software) imitating a genuine system to attract malicious users and collect information about how they operate....

 Salt Security, the leading API security company, today announced that Open Line NL, a supplier of managed cloud services and applications, has selected and deployed the Salt Security API Protection Platform. The Salt platform allows Open Line to offer services to its customers that quickly identify and block API attacks and remediate potential risks, ensuring the security of its customers’ critical data and services. Open Line provides both managed cloud infrastructure and vertical-specific solutions for...

KnowBe4 has announced that its new SecurityCoach product now integrates with Netskope. The two security organisations have collaborated together to help reduce risky behaviour with product integration to support real-time security coaching of users. SecurityCoach helps IT/security professionals to develop a strong security culture by enabling real-time security coaching of their users in response to risky security behaviour. Leveraging an organisation’s existing security stack, security teams and administrators can configure their real-time coaching campaigns to...

Axiad, a leading provider of organization-wide passwordless orchestration, today released Certificate-Based Authentication (CBA) for IAM, its newest offering in the Axiad Cloud authentication product line.  CBA is an improved and phishing-resistant form of MFA integral to the White House's recent Zero Trust mandate. Axiad's CBA for IAM allows security teams to easily extend the capabilities of existing IAM systems and bolster their overall cybersecurity posture. IAM ecosystems can be complex.  In fact, a recent Axiad...

Cato Networks, the world’s leading single-vendor SASE platform provider,  has announced it has grown its annual recurring revenue (ARR) from $1 million to $100 million in just five years. This best-in-class performance for enterprise network security compares with LinkedIn and faster than consumer-oriented brands, such as Twilio, Wix, Zapier, Canva, and Shopify.   Like these companies, Cato was the first to bring a born-for-the-cloud architecture to disrupt its category. Since its founding in 2015, Cato's...

Illusive has announced the release of its enhanced Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) platform. The new features enable organisations to visualise misconfigurations in and between Active Directory and Azure Active Directory domains, as well as to discover and remediate Kerberoastable identity risks and privileged accounts unmanaged by privileged access management (PAM). Additionally, Illusive visually correlates all identity risks with the MITRE ATT&CK framework so that organisations can more easily manage identity risk. According to...

It is a scenario anyone who works in an office can imagine all too easily; You’ve locked yourself out of your email accounts, and the myriad complexity of your own authentication systems leaves you locked out for hours at a time.  This scenario is felt even more keenly from the IT and security departments charged with managing this system of complexity, according to a new survey conducted by Axiad, who today announced the results of...