Sean Michael Kerner

McAfee is refreshing its enterprise cyber-security portfolio with both a new vision and a new lineup of products, which were announced on July 17. The McAfee Mvision product portfolio includes ePolicy Orchestrator (ePO), as well as endpoint and mobile products. The goal is to help make it easy for organizations to include, orchestrate and control […]

Symantec announced its Email Threat Isolation technology on July 17, providing organizations with new capabilities to help block advanced email attacks. According to Symantec, Email Threat Isolation blocks advanced email attacks on end-user devices and protects users against spear phishing, credential theft, account takeover and ransomware attacks. Symantec built Email Threat Isolation to secure email links […]

Optiv Security announced its Privileged Access Managed Service on July 16, which benefits from a technology integration with privileged access security vendor CyberArk. The new service pairs CyberArk’s technology with Optiv’s cyber-security management platform, providing an overall approach to help organizations manage and secure privileged access management. Optiv will manage customers’ existing CyberArk deployments or help […]

Among the most impactful cyber-attacks is business email compromise (BEC), where criminals trick unsuspecting organizations into paying fraudulent invoices. The FBI has calculated the estimated impact of BEC attacks that it is aware of and has determined that between October 2013 and May 2018, there has been $12.5 billion in global losses. During that period, the […]

In recent years that there been multiple cyber-attacks that compromised a software developer’s network to enable the delivery of malware inside of software updates. That’s a situation that Justin Cappos, founder of The Update Framework (TUF) open-source project, has been working hard to help solve. Cappos, an assistant professor at New York University (NYU), started TUF […]

The Linux Foundation launched on July 12 its latest effort—LF Energy, an open-source coalition for the energy and power management sector. The LF Energy coalition is being backed by French transmission system operation RTE, Vanderbilt University and the European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E). With LF Energy, the Linux Foundation is aiming to replicate the […]

HackerOne released its 2018 Hacker-Powered Security Report on July 11, providing insights into the current state of the bug bounty marketplace. The report is based on 78,275 security vulnerability reports that HackerOne received on its managed bug bounty platform, which handles programs for more than 1,000 organizations. The 46-page report reveals that the average bug bounty […]

Chief information security officers are responsible for developing and establishing cyber-security strategies and policies with their organizations. Yet, according to a new study from Accenture Security, many organizations don’t give their CISOs the resources they need and few CISOs have the required influence within enterprises to effect change. The Securing the Future Enterprise Study Today-2018 […]

Intel disclosed a series of vulnerabilities on July 10, including new variants of the Spectre vulnerability the company has been dealing with since January. Two new Spectre variants were discovered by security researchers Vladimir Kiriansky and Carl Waldspurger, who detailed their findings in a publicly released research paper tilted, “Speculative Buffer Overflows: Attacks and Defenses.” […]

The cost of data breaches has increased over the past year, according to the 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by IBM, which was released on July 11. The new report found that the average cost of a data breach is now $3.86 million, which is a […]

Apple released a series of updates for its desktop and mobile operating systems on July 9, providing users with multiple updates for security issues. Among the updated operating systems are iOS 11.4.1, watchOS 4.3.2, tvOS 11.4.1 and macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 The iOS 11.4.1 adds a a feature called USB Restricted Mode, which aims to […]

The first half of 2018 has seen a resurgence in ransomware attacks, according to SonicWall’s mid-year 2018 cyber-threat report released on July 10. For the first six months of 2018, SonicWall reported that it found 5.99 billion malware attacks, which is a 102 percent increase over the first six months of 2017. Of particular note, […]