Sean Michael Kerner

Shlomo Kramer is well-known in the security industry as the co-founder of Check Point, arguably the world’s first network security firewall vendor. Kramer now leads a new security company called Cato Networks, which on Sept. 13 announced a $30 million Series B round of funding. The funding round included the participation of Greylock Partners, Singtel […]

By default, the web is not secure, enabling data to travel in the clear, but that’s a situation that is easily corrected through the use of SSL/TLS. A challenge with implementing Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security has been the cost to acquire an SSL/TSL certificate from a known Certificate Authority (CA), but that has changed […]

The mobile Pwn2Own hacking contest is back for 2016, this time offering top prize of $250,000 to any security researcher who forces an Apple iPhone to unlock. The Pwn2Own contest has undergone a bit of a transition as Hewlett Packard Enterprise sold the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) group that sponsors the event to Trend Micro […]

In the modern startup world, no company will invest in hardware as most will go right to the cloud for their infrastructure needs. Aiming to attract startups, cloud vendor DigitalOcean is launching its Hatch effort to provide infrastructure credit, training and mentoring opportunities to startups. Mitch Wainer, co-founder of DigitalOcean, is familiar with the struggles […]

Security vendor Tanium first achieved some measure of notoriety in June 2014, when it announced a $90 million investment was made in the company. Tanium has gone on to raise additional funding since then, as the company grows its platform, which is all about helping organizations rapidly identify, detect and analyze what is running in […]

In June 2015, security vendor Sophos Group made its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Just over a year later, Sophos CEO Kris Hagerman remains confident that going public was the right decision for his company. “The summary is that it has been a great year. We have had a very strong […]

For those who are looking to hack the Facebook accounts of others, there is a marketplace of Facebook Hacker tools that offer the promise of point-and-click ease. According to a new report from Blue Coat Elastica Cloud Threat Labs (BCECTL), the promise made by many Facebook Hacker tools is false. Rather than providing access to […]

Kali Linux 2016.2 Delivers New Security Testing Options In addition to multiple desktop options, Kali Linux 2016.2 offers updates for forensics, social engineering, sniffing and post-exploitation security tools. Kali Linux Gets Enlightenment In the past, users that downloaded Kali got the GNOME desktop environment by default. Now with the 2016.2 milestone, users can choose to […]

HashiCorp announced Sept. 7 a new $24 million Series B round of investment and the general availability of its Vault Enterprise secrets management platform. The new funding will be used to help grow HashiCorp’s sales, marketing and engineering efforts as the company continues to evolve its DevOps platform. Investors in the Series B funding include […]

Best Practices for Managing Privileged Access in an Enterprise A BeyondTrust study looks at what separates top-tier and bottom-tier organizations when it comes to privileged access management. Grant Privilege to the App, Not the User Among the best practices that are widely embraced by top-tier organizations is to grant privilege to apps, rather than the […]

Google’s September Android security update provides users with patches for 55 vulnerabilities spread across three patch levels. Google first began to split Android updates into two patch levels with the July update, which fixed 108 security vulnerabilities. The basic idea behind the new three-patch model is to make it easier for handset vendors to deliver […]

Security vendor Iovation is acquiring privately held password-free log-in vendor LaunchKey in a bid to improve user security and reduce the risk of fraud. News of the acquisition was provided exclusively to eWEEK, but terms of the deal are not being made public. LaunchKey was founded in July 2012 and has raised $4 million in […]