Security News

Radware® (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of cybersecurity and application delivery solutions, today announced it has released its 2018-2019 Global Application and Network Security Report, in which survey respondents estimate the average cost of a cyberattack has climbed to $1.1M. For those organisations that calculate (versus estimate) the cost of an attack, that number increases to $1.67M. The top impact of cyberattacks, as reported by respondents, is operational/productivity loss (54%), followed by negative customer experience...

Pioneering cybersecurity start-up, Barac, today announced it is ramping up operations with the appointment of Peter Christou as its first EVP Global Sales and by expanding into the US market with the opening of a Boston office. Christou, an experienced cybersecurity professional, has been appointed to drive growth through increased sales, new partnerships and further international expansion through 2019. Barac is a highly innovative cybersecurity company that enables organisations to identify and stop the growing...

Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, today announced that its telecom IoT security solution, Virtual Network Function Suite (VNFS), has been certified as VMware Ready. This designation verifies the compatibility of the Trend Micro solution to secure modern networks that are built to support 5G and Internet of Things (IoT). “We are pleased that Trend Micro qualifies for the VMware Ready logo, signifying to customers that it has...

Due to demand, the deadline for registration and completion of the initial assessment phase of the UK government’s landmark cybersecurity training programme, Cyber Discovery, has been extended to the 31st January. Funded by the Department for Digital, Media, Culture & Sport (DCMS) and delivered by global IT training company SANS Institute, Cyber Discovery is a free programme that uses gamification to teach and demonstrate the basics of cybersecurity in a safe, challenging and fun setting....

With the CES 2019 coming to an end, at an Award Ceremony in Las Vegas, specialized VPN review website BestVPN.com announced winners of the annual BestVPN.com Awards 2019. For its fast development and market stirring innovation, privacy service provider Surfshark received an award as the Best VPN 2019 in the Newcomer category. “Such acknowledgment from the top-graded privacy service reviewers is a significant milestone for us. It embodies all the hard work we have put...

By Maxim Frolov, Vice President of Global Sales at Kaspersky Lab There’s an inconvenient truth in the business community. As many business decision-makers are only too aware, hardly a week seems to go by without a data breach of some form being reported to press, and this year alone has witnessed some major breaches which have affected thousands of people around the world. Just take a look at the stats. In October last year, DNA...

Immersive Labs today announced that Goldman Sachs has led an $8m Series A investment round in its fast-growing cyber security skills platform. The funding, made alongside smaller private investors, will grow an offering which arms enterprise IT and cyber security teams with the latest skills by combining threat data with gamified learning. The award-winning Immersive Labs platform uses real-time feeds of the latest attack techniques, hacker psychology and technological vulnerabilities to rapidly build cyber wargames...

Global cybersecurity leader Forcepoint today announced that veteran technology marketing executive Matt Preschern has joined the company as chief marketing officer (CMO). Preschern reports to CEO Matthew Moynahan and will be based in Forcepoint’s Austin, Texas headquarters. As CMO, Preschern will lead all aspects of global marketing including driving brand awareness, revenue generation, and sales enablement for the company. He brings more than 25 years of experience in brand, digital marketing, demand generation and revenue...

Semafone, the leading provider of data security and compliance solutions for contact centres, takes an optimistic view of the outlook for the technology industry in 2019. CEO Tim Critchley, global solutions director Ben Rafferty and head of information security Shane Lewis, share their top tech predictions for this year. 1) Brexit – the voice of the tech sector will prevail Our view is that the pre-Brexit fog will lift. The UK Government will finally implement...

Cyber security specialist CySure Ltd has appointed Frost Solutions as a specialist value added reseller partner in South Africa. Frost Solutions specializes in delivering IT services to the small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) market and has added CySure’s information security management system, VOSO to its product and service portfolio. Richard Frost, CEO and Founder at Frost Solutions said, “We are delighted to introduce CySure’s Virtual Online Security Officer (VOSO) to our offering. Our vision...