Sean Michael Kerner

The market for Internet of Things (IoT) cyber-security technologies got a bit more crowded this week, with the launch on June 6 of startup Armis from stealth mode. The company has raised a total of $17 million in funding, from investors Sequoia Israel and Tenaya Capital. The two co-founders of Armis, CEO Yevgeny Dibrov and […]

For cloud services vendor Rackspace, going private has been a very positive experience, according to CTO John Engates. In a video interview with eWEEK, Engates details how becoming privately owned has helped the company advance its cloud initiatives. In August 2016, Rackspace announced that it was going private in a $4.3 billion deal led by […]

Email Impersonation Attacks on the Rise, Mimecast Finds Email security vendor Mimecast released its latest quarterly Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA) report on June 6, providing insight from data collected across 44,644 participating users over a 287-day period. During the quarter, the ESRA test found 9 million emails that Mimecast categorized as some form of […]

Security vendor Illumio today announced that it has raised $125 million in a Series D round of funding to help the company continue building and delivering its Adaptive Security Platform to customers around the world. The funding round was led by J.P. Morgan Asset Management and included the participation of existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, General […]

Since September 2015, Gaurav Banga has been working on a new security company called Balbix to help calculate cyber-resilience and breach risk, though few details about the effort have been publicly disclosed. That changes today as the Balbix platform and the company are now officially emerging from stealth mode. Balbix isn’t Banga’s first cybersecurity startup, […]

Security vendor Netskope announced a new $100 million round of funding today as the company aims to expand its technology platform and market presence. The Series E funding round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Accel, bringing the total funding to date for Netskope up to $231.4 million. “For us this was an over-subscribed, […]

Outdated OSes, Unpatched Browsers Expose Companies to Risk Users around the world continue to run older operating systems and unpatched software applications. That was one of the findings of Duo Security’s 2017 Trusted Access Report, released on June 5. The report, which provides insight into the security status of 4.6 million devices that Duo Security […]

Enterprise software life cycle automation management firm 1E is updating its Tachyon Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platform today with new capabilities to improve automated remediation. 1E has been in business since 1997, led by CEO Sumir Karayi, with a goal of helping to improve Windows PC and server management. In March 2017, 1E announced […]

Online password manager service OneLogin reported on May 31 that it was the victim of a data breach that exposed its users and their data to risk. Initially the company provided few details, other than disclosing the fact that there was an unauthorized access to OneLogin customer data. Late on June 1, the company provided […]

KDE Plasma 5.10 Puts Folders on Linux Desktop, Improves Search Thanks to its latest update—version 5.10—that debuted on May 30, the open-source KDE Plasma desktop now provides users with a refined user interface and new capabilities. KDE has long taken a different view on how a desktop should work and look, but with the 5.10 […]

The QakBot financial Trojan has been active since at least 2011 stealing information from banks and end users around the world, but now the attacks have taken a new twist. The QakBot attacks are locking out Microsoft Active Directory (AD) system users, according to research from IBM’s X-Force team. “The X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence […]

CoreOS is extending its Tectonic Kubernetes container management and orchestration system with new deployment options and security capabilities. The new capabilities were announced at the CoreOS Fest conference in San Francisco held on May 31 and June 1. A core theme for CoreOS with the new updates and the overall platform is to enable flexibility […]