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Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity leader protecting over 500 million systems across 150 countries, today announced the addition of security risk analytics and hardening to its flagship GravityZone endpoint security solution. This latest GravityZone innovation helps organizations reduce the endpoint attack surface and proactively safeguard systems from breach by continuously discovering, prioritizing and remediating risks from endpoint software misconfigurations. Most of today’s threats target well-known endpoint application and configuration vulnerabilities. For example, the WannaCry Ransomware took...

NTT Security, the specialised security company and centre of excellence in security for NTT Group, has launched its inaugural Women in Cybersecurity Awards as part of an initiative to recognise and inspire talented female professionals and newcomers in the cybersecurity industry. The new awards, developed in partnership with Global Digital Women (GDW), will recognise the voices of women in cybersecurity across Europe and change perceptions of them as well as inspire young women to consider...

Radiflow, a leading provider of industrial cybersecurity solutions for industrial automation networks, and Trusted Cyber Security Solutions (TCSS), a provider of cybersecurity services and solution, today jointly announced that TCSS has joined Radiflow’s OT MSSP Partner program in order to expand its service offerings and pursue market opportunities to provide managed OT cybersecurity services to its industrial customers across central and southern Europe. TCSS is a growing cybersecurity systems integration and consulting firm based in...

Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today debuted The Passwordless Future Report, which demonstrates how passwords negatively impact the security of organisations and mental health of employees. The research, which surveyed 4,000+ workers across the UK, France and the Netherlands, also found that there is a readiness for passwordless security methods such as biometrics, with 70% workers believing biometrics would benefit the workplace. Dr. Maria Bada, Research Associate, Cambridge...

ESET, a global leader in cybersecurity, has received Level 1 MRG Effitas Online Banking/Browser Security Certification for their ESET Internet Security product. MRG Effitas, a world leader in independent IT security efficacy testing, research and expertise, has awarded ESET Internet Security Level 1 certification in their Online Banking/Browser Security Certification Q1 2019 Report. ESET was one of only four vendors to achieve certification, out of a total of nine vendors tested. As the only testing...

Imperva, Inc., the cybersecurity leader championing the fight to secure data and applications wherever they reside, today announced significant enhancements to the Imperva Application Security portfolio, now offering targeted protection against account takeover (ATO), an industry-leading approach to detecting and blocking malicious attacks targeted at APIs, as well as partnerships with leading API vendors and an unprecedented three-second SLA for mitigating any type of DDoS attack. These capabilities help customers further harden their defences against...

Global cybersecurity leader Forcepoint today announced transformational technology business leader Shayne Higdon has joined the company as chief operating officer (COO). Higdon reports to CEO Matthew Moynahan and will be based in Forcepoint’s Austin, Texas headquarters.As COO, Higdon will drive Forcepoint’s operational strategy leading the company’s engineering, product management, customer success, operations and service organizations as the company grows to more than one billion in revenue. He will bring a strong operational focus further expanding...

The biggest risk to a British company’s cybersecurity is not, as often believed, external hackers and overseas-based virus attacks, but an organisation’s own employees. Whether unknowingly or intentional, the actions of those within an organisation have been shown to be the biggest threat to the digital security of a company, according to new research by technology and telecommunications company Telstra One of the key findings from the Telstra Cyber Security Report 2019, the study found...

95% of cyber security breaches are due to human error, which in reality means it could be any user, at any time. The best bit? They probably won’t even know they’re doing something wrong, but they have inadvertently just become an unintentional insider threat. As Andy Pearch, Head of IA Services, CORVID, explains, organisations need to stop playing the blame game and pointing fingers at users when the system is compromised and instead ensure they...

People remain the greatest threat to industrial control systems (ICS) and associated networks, according to a new SANS survey focused on better understanding cybersecurity risks to operational technology (OT) systems. More than half of respondents also see the cyber risks to their safe and reliable operations as high or higher than in past years. Three hundred and forty-eight security professionals worldwide, representing IT, OT and hybrid IT-OT domains provided their thoughts in the SANS 2019...