Sean Michael Kerner

Alphabet’s Chronicle security division announced the launch of VirusTotal Enterprise on Sept. 27, providing security professionals with new tools and capabilities to hunt malware. VirusTotal Enterprise is a new version of the popular VirusTotal online service, combining capabilities that had previously been known as premium features on the platform with new capabilities. Among the new […]

Cloudflare is celebrating its eighth birthday this week with a series of announcements that look to accelerate and secure the internet, as well as helping organizations to save some money. On Sept. 24, Cloudflare announced its support of the Encrypted Server Name Indication (ESNI) service in a bid to keep service providers from being able […]

For six years in a row, Verizon has reported a steady increase in compliance with the PCI-DSS security standard for payment security. Unfortunately, it’s a trend that has now changed course. On Sept. 25, Verizon released its 2018 Payment Security Report, revealing a drop in Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) compliance. In the […]

Pivotal along with VMware announced the new Pivotal Container Service 1.2 update on Sept. 25, providing new capabilities for the Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform. The PKS update was announced at Pivotal’s SpringOne Platform developer conference, alongside the new Pivotal CloudFoundry (PCF) 2.3 and Pivotal Application Service (PAS) 2.3 releases. Among the new features that landed in […]

Symantec announced a new release of its data loss prevention platform on Sept. 25, providing new security features to help protect users against sensitive data loss. The DLP 15.1 update protects data and documents in Microsoft’s Office 365 and Google’s G-Suite of cloud-based office applications, as well as on-premises based deployments. The platform now integrates […]

As organizations begin to embrace container and serverless technologies, there is a corresponding need to secure those deployment models. On Sept. 24, Attivo Networks announced its entry into the container and serverless security market with an update of its ThreatDefend cyber-security deception platform. The basic idea with cyber-security deception is to provide what appears to […]

Yubico announced its 5 Series security keys on Sept. 24, providing organizations with enhanced hardware to improve authentication security. Yubico develops a hardware-based authentication device known as the YubiKey, which provides support for different authentication protocols. Organizations can use YubiKeys to enable different types of multifactor authentication and password-less authentication approaches. “Our new YubiKey 5 […]

While quantum computing could potentially enable new innovations and models for IT, it also represents a looming challenge for IT security, as existing forms of encryption could be at risk.  In an effort to help prepare for the post-quantum future, DigiCert, Gemalto and ISARA announced a partnership on Sept. 20 to build quantum-safe encryption technologies. […]

If time is money, then how important is it to secure the integrity of time itself? Time across many computing devices is often synchronized via the Network Time Protocol (NTP), which isn’t a secure approach, but there is another option. On Sept. 21, Cloudflare announced that it is deploying a new authenticated time service called Roughtime, […]

Rapid7 announced during a webcast customer event on Sept. 20 that it is enhancing its product portfolio with new automation capabilities to help IT security teams deal with the deluge of information and tasks needed to secure their organizations. Among the enhancements is the new InsightConnect security orchestration and automation offering, which has its roots […]

Online retailers have increasingly come under attack in 2018 from a hacking group known as Magecart. The latest victim is allegedly online computer parts retailer Newegg, which admitted on Sept. 19 that it was breached. Volexity Threat Research working in collaboration with RiskIQ identified the attack on Newegg. According to the two research groups, Newegg […]

Fidelis Cybersecurity announced on Sept. 18 that it has raised $25 million in a new round of funding to help grow the company’s platform, which provides multiple capabilities for network and endpoint security. This has been a busy year for Fidelis as the company has expanded its core Elevate Platform with multiple new features, including […]