cybersecurity

IBM Buys Polar Security, a Data Security Platform in a USD 60M Deal

  Insights Desk   May 19, 2023

Highlights: After cataloging a company’s data assets, the startup’s software identifies potential cybersecurity concerns. According to Polar Security, its software can identify problems w...

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Report: One Unpatched Vulnerability Raises Cyber Insurance Claim Risk By 33%

  Insights Desk   May 19, 2023

Highlights: A new cybersecurity and cyber insurance startup Coalition Inc. report finds that policyholders with as few as one unresolved critical vulnerabilities are more likely to experience a c...

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Report Shows 900% Increase in Shadow API Usage

  Insights Desk   May 19, 2023

Highlights: Approximately 45 billion shadow API searches were made in the second half of 2022, up from a much more modest five billion searches in the first half of 2022, according to Cequence. ...

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Cyber Hygiene: Securing Online Identity and Business Data Assets

  Insights Desk   May 18, 2023

Highlights: Cyber hygiene can boost the performance of your hardware and software in addition to enhancing security. IT personnel can monitor or uninstall software by using cyber hygiene to ac...

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SquareX Secures USD 6 M for Its Browser Security System

  Insights Desk   May 12, 2023

Highlights: SquareX’s browser extension runs on cloud-based sandboxes that render web pages, which makes it impossible for any malware to reach consumer devices. As per SquareX, its platform...

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New Okta Services Help Organizations Improve Identity Security Posture

  Insights Desk   May 12, 2023

Highlights: The service leverages security insights from the Okta Customer Identity Cloud to enable teams to detect and respond to identity threats faster. The new service demonstrates the imp...

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Absolute Software will be Acquired by Crosspoint Capital for USD 657 MN

  Insights Desk   May 12, 2023

Highlights: Absolute Software, based in Vancouver, provides a platform for organizations to identify vulnerable and malicious devices within their corporate networks. Administrators have the a...

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Quest Software’s New Release Safeguards Against Cyberattacks and Storage Data Loss

  Insights Desk   May 11, 2023

Highlights: QoreStor reduces storage requirements and costs for both on-premises and cloud storage while speeding up backup and recovery performance. According to the needs of an organization,...

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Google Cloud Launches Differential Privacy Technology for its BigQuery Data Warehouse

  Insights Desk   May 09, 2023

Highlights: Differential privacy deters hacking efforts by adding flaws or noise into a dataset, which prevents hackers from using popular data extraction techniques to obtain personal informati...

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The New Cactus Ransomware Encrypts Itself to Avoid Antivirus Software

  Insights Desk   May 09, 2023

Highlights: The ransomware binary is protected by encryption, which sets Cactus apart from other operations. The actor downloads the encryptor binary with 7-Zip using a batch script. The ranso...

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