Sean Michael Kerner

Cisco announced on April 16 a series of enhancements to its Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints platform that provide improved email security and visibility capabilities. The new capabilities include Cisco Visibility, which provides a threat hunting capability to AMP for Endpoints, enabling security professionals to gather insights for investigations. Fileless malware detection and prevention […]

Illumio is partnering with Qualys to enable organizations to pair vulnerability data with network micro-segmentation, enabling enhanced enterprise security. The new partnership, which was announced on April 12, pairs threat and vulnerability scan information from the Qualys Cloud Platform with Illumio’s Adaptive Security Platform, which provides the micro-segmentation capabilities. The partnership is helping to power […]

Cyber-security startup Infocyte launched the 3.0 edition of its Hunt Platform on April 10, providing organizations with enhanced threat hunting capabilities. The Infocyte Hunt 3.0 platform benefits from the experience of the company’s founders gained in the U.S Air Force’s cyber-security division, providing features that enable security operation teams to find advanced threats. The new […]

The new WebAuthn standard is coming to the web as the W3C is working to bring the latest generation of the FIDO strong authentication specifications forward into the standards realm. The FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance has been building strong authentication specifications including the Universal Second Factor (U2) and Universal Authentication Framework (UAF) since 2012. […]

Security startup Capsule8 officially launched the 1.0 release of its zero-day threat detection platform on April 11, after more than a year of active development. Capsule8 1.0 is intended to help secure both container as well as non-container based Linux workloads from unknown zero-day threats. Among the risks that Capsule8 aims to help mitigate are […]

Data Breaches Continue to Be Financially Motivated as Detection Lags Verizon released on April 10 the 2018 edition of its Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), which analyzed a filtered data set of 53,308 security incidents across multiple industries around the world. Of those security incidents, the 68-page report revealed that 2,216 were confirmed to be […]

Ransomware attacks grew significantly in 2017, doubling in volume from the year earlier, according to Verizon’s 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report, which was released on April 10. Verizon’s 2018 DBIR reveals insights on the state of data breaches, derived from analysis of over 53,000 security incidents and 2,216 breaches. The doubling of ransomware attacks from […]

A security vulnerability put at risk warning sirens across the city of San Francisco, according to a report released by security firm Bastille Networks on April 10. Bastille said the vulnerability, which it dubbed “SirenJack,” could have enabled an attacker to broadcast a false alarm that would have impacted millions of people. The SirenJack vulnerability […]

Security firm Flashpoint is warning of an emerging attack pattern where fraudsters are using a technique known as HTTP injectors to steal internet access. Analysts at Flashpoint reported on April 9 that they have noticed an increase in fraudster conversations about HTTP injectors, which can be used to modify the HTTP headers sent on network […]

Aqua Security announced on April 9 that it is adding new automated compliance capabilities to its namesake container security platform. The enhanced capabilities are aimed at helping organizations meet different compliance requirements. Aqua now includes compliance checks to help identify personally identifiable information in container application images. In addition, the Aqua update can identify embedded “secrets” […]

Security vulnerabilities are rampant, while software patching remains a key challenge. These are a few of the high-level findings from research reports released the week of April 2-6.  In the aggregate, the reports provide a snapshot of some of the top concerns facing enterprise IT today, including data breaches, patching and cyber-security professional staffing. Digital […]

Amazon Advances Cloud Security, Storage Tools at AWS Summit Amazon held its AWS Summit in San Francisco on April 4, unveiling multiple new capabilities that enhance the company’s public cloud services. Security was a key theme of the event, with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels announcing a series of new services, including the AWS Secrets Manager […]