Sean Michael Kerner

For much of the history of anti-virus technology, the focus has been on determining if certain files, embedded in documents or downloaded from the internet, are malicious. Security vendor Carbon Black is now moving beyond just looking at files with a new event streaming processing approach in its Cb Defense Next Generation Anti-Virus (NGAV) platform […]

Cisco is expanding its security analytics capabilities with the launch of the Tetration 2.0 platform. Tetration was first announced in June 2016, though the initial focus was largely around data center visibility. “What we did with the first release of Tetration is provide machine learning that observes the behavior of applications,” Yogesh Kaushik, product management […]

LibreOffice 5.3 Upgrade Brings Open-Source Office Suite to the Cloud The open-source office suite enhances multiple features, making it easier for users to build documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Writer Gets PDF Improvements Users now can digitally sign PDF files and verify existing signatures. PDF support overall has improved, with the ability to insert PDFs into […]

Security vendor Rapid7 has been helping to lead the open-source Metasploit penetration testing framework project since October 2009, largely focused on software. On Feb. 2, Rapid7 announced a new expansion of Metasploit’s capabilities to enable security researchers to directly link to hardware for vulnerability testing. The new hardware enablement is currently in the open-source Metasploit […]

Understanding all the security data that is collected by an organization to actually detect threats often involves the expertise of a trained security analyst. Unfortunately, security analysts are in short supply, which is where Kumar Saurabh, co-founder and CEO of LogicHub, sees an opportunity for his new company. LogicHub officially emerged from stealth on Feb. […]

Privacy-Focused Tails 2.10 Linux Includes Security Updates, New Tools The first 2017 release of the privacy-focused Linux distribution patches security issues and provides a new anonymous sharing tool called Onion Share. Default Search Engine Is Now DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo is now the default search engine choice in Tails 2.10, replacing disconnect.me, which was the default in […]

Container technologies already provide multiple types of isolation to keep application workloads safe and segmented. According to Aqua Security CTO and co-founder Amir Jerbi, additional segmentation is needed, which is what his company is now delivering with the 2.0 release of its Container Security Platform (CSP). Aqua Security first debuted CSP in May 2016, with […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced on Feb. 1 that it is acquiring privately-held security vendor Niara Inc. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. Niara is a security analytics vendor with a specific focus on market segment known as User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA). The company first emerged from stealth in […]

When a user loses access to an online account, a common feature in many sites is a password reset feature via email. While an email based account password reset can work for users, it’s not a particularly secure approach. Facebook wants to help improve the state of account recovery with a new open-source Delegated Recovery […]

Cisco released its 2017 Annual Cybersecurity Report (ACR) on Jan. 31 providing insights into the latest trends from security statistics gathered over the course of 2016. Among the key findings in the 110-page report is that data breaches are having a financial impact on the bottom line of victimized organizations. “There is no shortage of […]

Survey Shows Gap Between Perception, Reality in Midmarket Security Arctic Wolf Networks survey provides insights into how mid-market companies think about security and what they actually do to enforce IT security. Most Organizations are Confident in Their Security Posture When asked about security posture, 95 percent of respondents indicated that they believed their organizations were […]

Tenable Network Security is expanding its product portfolio with a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) security platform called Tenable.io. The new platform isn’t simply a cloud version of Tenable’s existing Security Center platform, but rather is a complete re-write, with features and capabilities purpose-built for the evolving cloud era. “Tenable has been in the vulnerability management business […]