Sean Michael Kerner

IBM announced a series of new cognitive computing-powered cyber-security products and services on Feb. 13, including the general availability of Watson for Cyber Security. IBM has been training its Watson cognitive computing platform to understand cyber-security since May 2016 and had a beta launch in December. “Watson has been on a journey to learn the language of […]

When it comes to detecting potential breaches, visibility into the network and everything that runs on it is critically important. Simply having visibility into what is happening in real time, though, isn’t always enough, since many advanced attacks can take weeks or months to get into a system. Security vendor SS8 is now advancing its […]

Cisco Cyber-Security Report Finds Server Threats Increased in 2016 Cisco’s 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report reveals some significant trends, including a dramatic rise in spam volume as well as an increase in server vulnerabilities. Malware Shifts to Web-Based Attacks The types of common malware seen by Cisco shifted in 2016 from being largely Trojan droppers, to […]

IBM today is announcing the new Red Portal cloud based collaboration platform for its elite X-Force Red security team, providing new visibility and control to organizations that are using IBM’s security testing services. The X-Force Red security team was first publicly announced in August 2016. The new Red Portal is welcome addition to the X-Force Red’s operations. […]

Phishing Site Study Reveals Why These Cyber-Scams Pervade the Web Phishing is a security problem for organizations worldwide, according to a report from security firm PhishLabs. The company released its “2017 Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report” Feb. 7, providing insight into the evolving phishing landscape. A major security threat, Phishing is the practice of using […]

Bracket Computing announced new security features for its Computing Cell network isolation platform on Feb. 9. The new capabilities include runtime integrity protection and event driven forensics to help secure application workloads in the cloud. Bracket Computing emerged from stealth mode in October 2014 with its core Computing Cell technology for security virtualization. The platform […]

Docker is advancing its open-source container engine as well as its commercially supported Docker Datacenter platform with enhanced capabilities designed to help safeguard container secrets. Secrets in the context of container applications are access tokens, passwords and other privileged access information that needs to be kept secure. The Docker 1.13 container engine release that debuted on Jan. […]

Among the many security challenges that organizations face is having an always-on security approach. It’s a challenge that Cisco is aiming to solve with new enhanced capabilities in its Umbrella platform that is now being positioned as a Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) technology. The Umbrella technology comes from OpenDNS, which is a company Cisco acquired […]

Security vendor Sophos is set to expand its capabilities with the acquisition of next generation security vendor Invincea, in a deal announced on Feb. 8. The financial terms of the deal call for Sophos to pay a cash consideration to Invincea shareholders of $100 million with a $20 million earn-out clause, bringing the total potential […]

Security vendor Skyhigh Networks debuted new Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) capabilities on Feb. 7, extending security protections to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms as well as custom application deployments in the cloud. The CASB technology developed by Skyhigh was originally focused largely on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), providing access control and security for popular services including Office 365, […]

Google released its second Android patch update of 2017 on Feb. 6, providing users of the mobile operating system with patches for 58 different vulnerabilities, up significantly from the 13 flaws Google fixed in its February 2016 Android update. In the new February 2017 update, 8 vulnerabilities are rated by Google as critical. Among the […]

More Software Vulnerabilities Disclosed in 2016 Than Ever Before Risk Based Security’s software vulnerability report for 2016 shows find that the number of new flaws found during the year set a record and that bug bounty programs are an important source of new discoveries. The Number of Vulnerabilities Keeps Rising According to Risk Based Security’s […]