Cyber Threats July 20, 2017 Call Issued for Federal Agencies to Adopt DMARC to Prevent Phishing Over the past few months there have been several cases of criminals impersonating government departments in phishing campaigns, prompting Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) to write ... Read more
Security Breaches July 20, 2017 Ransomware Investigation Uncovered 15-Month Data Breach When Peachtree Neurological Clinic was attacked with ransomware all was not lost as data were recoverable from backups; however, the ransomware investigation revealed something far ... Read more
Compliance July 19, 2017 Securing Your Email Training Module Released by Wombat Security The security awareness training company Wombat Security Technologies has announced the release of a new series of training modules that can be used by businesses ... Read more
Trends & Reports July 18, 2017 Google Makes It Harder to Install Malicious Apps In May, a phishing campaign took advantage of users of Google Docs. Emails were sent containing a link to Google Docs that appeared to be ... Read more
Compliance July 17, 2017 HHS Announces Closing Out of Office of the Chief Privacy Officer The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will be closing out the Office of the Chief ... Read more
Tools & Practices July 16, 2017 UK Hospital Cybersecurity Funding to Increase by £21 Million Hospital cybersecurity funding has been increased in the UK in the wake of the recent WannaCry ransomware attacks that crippled parts of the NHS. Health ... Read more
Tools & Practices July 15, 2017 ONC Offers Tips to Improve Patient Data Access The HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has given covered entities tips to improve patient data access, explaining how important ... Read more
Tools & Practices July 13, 2017 Cloud Resource Management Solution Provider Spotinst Raises $15 Million in Series A Funding Cloud resource management solution provider Spotinst has raised more than $15 million in Series A funding, with Intel Capital leading the latest funding round. Springtime ... Read more
Cyber Threats July 13, 2017 Fortinet FortiMail Receives VBSpam+ Certification Topping List for Malware Detection For the eighth consecutive time, Fortinet’s FortiMail spam filtering solution as passed the Virus Bulletin test and has been awarded VBSpam+ Certification. The test confirms ... Read more
Trends & Reports July 12, 2017 Skeddly Adds New Report Showing Health of EBS Snapshots Skeddly has added a new report that gives users visibility into their disaster recovery efforts and helps them check they are meeting their backup requirements. ... Read more
Tools & Practices July 10, 2017 GorillaStack Helps Firms Manage EBS Snapshots and Save on Cloud Storage Costs GorillaStack has announced it has introduced new AWS cost allocation functionality for Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots. Amazon EBS is a block storage system that ... Read more
Insights July 10, 2017 MediaPro Phishing Training Solution The MediaPro phishing training program helps organizations assess their risk profile and develop training courses to suit their individual needs. The MediaPro phishing training program ... Read more
Insights July 10, 2017 PhishLine Phishing Solution The PhishLine phishing solution helps organizations improve their resilience against phishing and social engineering attacks. Employees are trained to recognize phishing attacks and are tested ... Read more
Insights July 10, 2017 SecurityIQ Phishing Solution The SecurityIQ phishing solution is a security awareness training program developed by the Infosec Institute that combines computer-based training with phishing simulations to improve resilience ... Read more
Insights July 10, 2017 Sophos Phishing Solution The Sophos phishing solution is a new addition to the portfolio of cybersecurity products offered by Sophos. The Sophos phishing solution is an easy to ... Read more
Trends & Reports July 7, 2017 CloudRanger Releases Version 2.0 of its AWS Cloud Management Platform CloudRanger has announced that version 2.0 of its award-winning cloud management platform has now been released. The new version includes several key updates and new ... Read more
Trends & Reports July 3, 2017 Spotinst Launches Spectrum: A Cloud Agnostic, Cross Platform Monitoring and Analytics Service Spotinst, the leading cloud workload management platform provider, has developed a platform that allows businesses to take advantage of the low cost of spot instances ... Read more
Trends & Reports July 1, 2017 Wombat Security Technologies Study Reveals Personal Security Habits of Workers The 2017 User Risk Report from Wombat Security Technologies has shown that UK and US workers are engaging in risky activities at work and on ... Read more
Tools & Practices June 29, 2017 Microsoft Confirms Acquisition of Cloudyn The first rumors that Microsoft was attempting to purchase the Israeli cloud cost management firm Cloudyn surfaced in April, although it has been relatively quiet ... Read more
Security Breaches June 28, 2017 Global Petya Ransomware Attacks involve Modified EternalBlue Exploit Global Petya ransomware attacks are underway with the campaign bearing similar hallmarks to the WannaCry ransomware attacks in May. The attackers are using the a ... Read more
Compliance June 28, 2017 Visual Server Management Platform Launched by CloudRanger CloudRanger, a provider of simple backup solutions for AWS, has announced the launch of a new visual server management platform that gives users control over ... Read more
Trends & Reports June 28, 2017 Mimecast Announces New Partnership with Insight Mimecast has announced its North America division has partnered with the Intelligent Technology Solutions provider Insight. The new partnership means Insight can now provide Mimecast’s ... Read more
Trends & Reports June 27, 2017 FittedCloud Adds New Anomaly Detection Capability for EBS, EC2 and DynamoDB FittedCloud has announced it has introduced new anomaly detection capabilities for EBS, EC2, and DynamoDB that generate near real time alerts about abnormal resource provisioning ... Read more
Security Breaches June 27, 2017 $115 Million Anthem Data Breach Settlement Agreed A $115 million Anthem data breach settlement has been agreed in the consolidated data breach case filed on behalf of the 78.8 million victims of ... Read more
Trends & Reports June 27, 2017 PhishLabs Rated One of the Best Places to Work in South Carolina If you live in South Carolina and are looking to work in an innovative, fast-growing company, you could do much worse than seek employment at ... Read more
Compliance June 26, 2017 Healthcare Data Breach Resolution Costs Fall Healthcare data breach resolution costs are still higher than all other industries, but the latest Ponemon Institute/IBM Security study has shown that for the first ... Read more
Insights June 26, 2017 Ironscales Phishing Defense Platform The Ironscales phishing defense platform consists of a training program to teach employees about phishing and a phishing email simulation program to assess the effectiveness ... Read more
Insights June 26, 2017 PhishLabs Phishing Protection The PhishLabs phishing protection solution has been developed to improve organization’s resilience against phishing attacks by protecting organizations from the exploitation of people. People are ... Read more
Insights June 26, 2017 Agari Phishing Solution In contrast to many organizations that offer anti-phishing protection, the Agari phishing solution does not train enterprise employees how to recognize phishing emails, instead the ... Read more
Compliance June 24, 2017 Healthcare Data Breach Report Shows Breaches Are Taking Years to Detect The latest healthcare data breach report issued by Protenus, in conjunction with databreaches.net, shows healthcare data breaches increased in May, with 37 breaches reported compared ... Read more