On May 12th, 2017, the first case of WannaCry ransomware was discovered and within a day, over 230,000 machines were estimated to have been infected in more than 150 countries. The scale and speed of this attack left the industry stunned, but ransomware is not a new phenomenon. Ransomware has existed in one form or another for fifteen years, and to date more than 350,000 different ransomware variants have been identified. There are some fundamental
Bricata, LLC, a developer of network intrusion detection and prevention solutions, announced today it has added two more veteran cyber security executives to its leadership team. Druce MacFarlane joins as vice president of Products and Marketing, while Randy Fallis joins as vice president of Sales and Customer Strategy. The two new executives add more depth to an existing management team with an impressive track record for solving complex problems in the cyber security space.
On June 1st, Time announced that its MySpace social network had been compromised, and that account information for hundreds of millions of MySpace users with accounts created prior to June 2013 had been leaked. With the rise of networks like Facebook in recent years, MySpace has experienced decreasing relevance as time has gone by. This has resulted in this news being viewed as a point of amusement more than significant issue. However, there is a
Santa Clara, CA: March 7, 2016 – Cyphort, the next generation Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) defense company, announced today that Cyphort’s Advanced Threat Defense Platform won the Excellence Award for ‘Best Enterprise Security Solution’ at the SC Awards 2016. The award was presented during the 19th annual SC Awards Gala on Tuesday, March 1, 2016 and comes on the heels of Cyphort receiving the “Rookie Security Company of the Year†honor at the SC Awards
Just two short years since launch, Cyphort was named a leader in the Forrester Automated Malware Analysis Wave. Cyphort distinguishes itself against industry generalists like Palo Alto Networks and Checkpoint, while distancing itself from established offering by FireEye, Intel/McAffee and Cisco. Download a free copy of the report
“Winning an Excellence Award is no small accomplishment,†said Illena Armstrong, vice president, editorial, SC Magazine. “This award is presented to the best the IT security industry has to offer. Cyphort has demonstrated its commitment to improving the industry as a whole and is very deserving of this recognition.†I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Cyphort, a pioneer of Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) solutions, today announced the General Availability of Version 3.0 of the Cyphort Advanced Threat Defense Platform. Delivering the first Advanced Threat Defense solution able to automatically prioritize threats based on business risk, Version 3.0’s Advanced Threat classification and prioritization capability automatically analyzes and ranks threats based on progression, severity and relevance, and presents that data via an intuitive, visual interface.
Cyphort formally leaves stealth mode today, and officially launches next generation APT Solution. More info at: http://www.cyphort.com/who-we-are/news-and-events/press-releases/cyphort-formally-launches-unveils-its-next-generation-apt-solution/
From Marketwatch.com: “FireEye Inc. filed plans for an initial public offering of up to $175 million in common stock as the IT security company looks to raise funds for general corporate purposes. FireEye intends to use proceeds for purposes such as headcount expansion, working capital, sales and marketing activities and product development For the six months ended June 30, FireEye reported its loss widened to $67.2 million from the year-earlier period amid a sharp jump
nGenius Voice | Video Manager Provides a Unique Level of Visibility into Unified Communications Service Performance to Assure the User’s Quality of Experience with Collaboration Applications Las Vegas, Nev. – Interop 2011. – May 10, 2011 – NetScout® Systems, Inc. today announced nGenius® Voice | Video Manager – the first integration of technology from its recent acquisition of Psytechnics. nGenius Voice | Video Manager significantly extends NetScout’s Unified Service Delivery Management strategy by providing comprehensive