The European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), Europe’s new framework for data protection laws, will come into effect on May 25th, signalling the most significant shake-up to data privacy in over two decades. It will affect not only organizations
tCell, the San Francisco headquartered startup that focuses on application security in the DevOps-first and cloud-first world, is continually seeking out new solutions to protect modern web apps. As widespread adoption of cloud infrastructure takes place and application deployment velocity
Amazon Web Services recently introduced Firewall Manager and a range of other new security tools to help its cloud customers have access to tools that are easier to use, manage and understand. Speaking at the AWS Summit in San Francisco
Today, Distil Networks, the San Francisco-headquartered cybersecurity company focused on bot detection and mitigation, published its 2018 Bad Bot Report, titled “The Year Bad Bots Went Mainstream”. The report looks in-depth at the nature and impact of automated threats across
Barracuda Networks, a cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions provider headquartered in Campbell, CA, today published the findings of a new survey on cloud security, with a particular focus on firewalls. Market research firm Dimensional Research conducted the survey on
On Wednesday, Google introduced a new DDoS protection service called Cloud Armor. In a blog post from Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the company rolled it out alongside several new security services, including new VPC Service Controls in Google Cloud Platform
California-based cybersecurity firm Shape Security recently released Blackfish, an AI system that proactively protects companies from credential stuffing prior to an attack happening. From the moment a criminal tries to use stolen usernames and passwords, Blackfish starts to monitor and
Zscaler, a San Jose-headquartered global cloud-based information security firm, reported a revenue of $126M in the 2017 fiscal year and $84M in the six months leading up to January 31, 2018, representing a year-over-year growth of 51%. Last week, the
Rackspace, the Texas-headquartered cloud computing company, announced last week it was deploying 22,000 of Cisco’s Next-Generation Firewalls to integrate into their existing services, helping its customers better manage their hosted environments with greater security and efficiency. Organizations are increasingly turning
Oracle just announced that it is buying Zenedge for an undisclosed amount. Zenedge was one of the very first Edge Security CDNs in the industry. Over the last four years, the Zenedge team has done a great job in building
Software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) firm Cato Networks saw rapid growth last year. Its sequential booking growth grew to 100%, quarter-over-quarter across 2017. Its average size of deals increased by 400%. In its January 30th press release, CEO and co-founder, Shlomo
Over the weekend, The New York Times reported on an obscure American company named Devumi, which sells Twitter followers to anyone who wants to appear more popular online, often using fake social media accounts to do so, and collecting millions
Microsoft announced last week that it was integrating Azure Security Center with its Web Application Firewall (WAF) to give its business customers better security. Shalini Pasupneti, senior program manager, Microsoft, wrote in a blog post that web applications are under increasing
Cisco Systems, the networking giant, released a new technology last Wednesday called Encrypted Traffic Analytics (ETA). Cisco claims the software can spot attack attempts within encrypted traffic. According to Gartner and NSS Labs, 55% of current Internet traffic is already
Last Friday, the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Commerce released a draft White Paper on enhancing the resilience of the Internet against Botnets and Distributed Attacks. They are inviting comments from all stakeholders regarding the issues raised and goals
