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Tufin®, the market-leading provider of Network Security Policy Orchestration solutions, announced the release of Change Window Automation and Policy Commit to enable organisations to automate planned changes during designated change windows and respond immediately to urgent firewall policy change requests. Change Window Automation improves operational efficiency and avoids disruption to the business during normal working hours, with full trust that changes will be committed according to security policy in designated off-hour change windows. Policy Commit...

As cybercriminals and nation-states continue to improve the sophistication of attacks that bypass traditional preventive defences, organisations must evolve their security defences to reduce dwell time. Fidelis Cybersecurity (Fidelis) – a leading automated detection and response provider — asked cybersecurity leaders, security architects and security analysts about the evolution of their cyber defence strategies, including post-breach detection and response, as well as threat hunting. Fidelis interviewed over 580 security professionals from around the globe to...

Kaspersky Lab is launching the fourth international industrial Capture the Flag (CTF) security competition and inviting ethical hackers, known as whitehats, from across the world to test the security of smart devices and industrial systems. Any release of a new piece of technology is usually followed by waves of hacking attempts, as cybercriminals search for vulnerabilities. However, unlike blackhats, who are looking to exploit systems and new technologies for illegal purposes, whitehats are working towards...

The world’s most advanced security product for IoT devices has been unveiled today at the IoT Solutions World Congress. Developed by the UK company, Crypto Quantique, it has the capabilities required to become the foundational security product for every IoT device in the world. The foundational technology consists of the world’s first quantum driven secure chip (QDSC) on silicon which, when combined with cryptographic APIs, provides highly scalable, integratable, easy-to-implement and seamless end-to-end security for...

Ensighten, the global leader in data security, governance and omni-channel data management, today unveiled research showing that nearly half (46%) of enterprises believe they have a probable (or greater) risk of a website data breach. 15 per cent of enterprises also admitted that they have a definite, known risk. 67 per cent have not evaluated, considered, or yet implemented marketing security for their website. The research, which investigated the views and attitudes of enterprises on...

Nyotron, an Israeli company and provider of the industry’s first OS-Centric Positive Security solution to strengthen endpoint protection, today announced that the company has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with Ingram Micro to help it accelerate its global presence – particularly in the United States – and build its global channel ecosystem. The partnership, which includes a $10 million investment from Ingram Micro, expands on an existing relationship between Nyotron and Ingram Micro, which...

Imperva, Inc. (NASDAQ: IMPV), a leading global provider of best-in-class cybersecurity solutions on-premises, in the cloud and across hybrid environments, today announced it entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by leading private equity technology investment firm Thoma Bravo, LLC. Upon the close of the transaction, Imperva will operate as a privately-held company with the flexibility to focus on execution and drive to be a world-class profitable growth company. Under the terms of the...

Fidelis Cybersecurity announces support for Microsoft Azure’s high-speed virtual network terminal access point (TAP) to enable continuous mirroring of virtual machine (VM) network traffic, without the use of agents, directly to Fidelis Network sensors. Applications and workloads are continuing to migrate to the cloud but security visibility for cloud-based applications has lagged behind. With cyber attackers constantly exploiting weaknesses and access credentials, cloud network traffic analysis is critical for threat detection, threat hunting, and data...

Touch Biometrix, a disruptive fingerprint technology company headquartered in North Wales, has appointed a Chief Innovation Officer. Rob Van Lier has joined the St Asaph-based company, which was recently recognised as one of the Top 20 global key players in the fingerprint sensing market alongside the likes of Apple. Rob is the latest senior appointment to Touch Biometrix, following the recruitment earlier this year of Eric Derckx as Chief Technology Officer. Touch Biometrix was established...

Kaspersky Lab Automatic Exploit Prevention technology, embedded in most of the company’s endpoint solutions, has detected a series of targeted cyber-attacks. The attacks were attempted by a new piece of malware that exploited a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows operating system. The intension was for cybercriminals to gain persistent access to victim systems in the Middle East. The vulnerability was patched by Microsoft on 9 October. An attak via a zero-day vulnerability...