Jeff Schwartz
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Journalist covering cybersecurity and enterprise information technology. Contributing writer: Dark Reading https://authory.com/JeffreySchwartz www.linkedin.com/in/jeffaschwartz
Cribl Adds Agentic Detection Engineering & Boosts SecOps With CardinalOps Deal - www.darkreading.com/cybersecurit...
Cribl Buys CardinalOps, Adds Agentic Detection Engineering
CardinalOps will give Cribl customers the ability to map detection rules and security controls to the MITRE ATT&CK framework to identify coverage gaps.
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Anthropic's AI Finds Bugs. IBM Bets $5B It Can Fix Them. IBM and Red Hat assign 20,000 engineers to the new Project Lightwell service as Anthropic's Mythos findings ignite debate over how to secure the open-source software supply chain. www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilit...
Anthropic's AI Finds Bugs. IBM Bets $5B It Can Fix Them.
IBM and Red Hat launched Project Lightwell with $5 billion to patch open-source vulnerabilities faster than AI can discover them
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Microsoft's Original Windows Secure Boot Certificate Is Expiring-- The original UEFI Secure Boot certificates for Windows will start expiring in late June. Microsoft urged IT and security leaders to apply updated certificates to all Windows PCs made before 2024.
Microsoft's Original Windows Secure Boot Certificate Is Expiring
The Secure Boot refresh is one of the largest coordinated security maintenance efforts across the Windows ecosystem, Microsoft said. Update those PCs soon.
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Once CrowdStrike's nemesis, Microsoft is now a collaborator. A shared interest in Formula 1 helped thaw the years-long fierce rivalry. www.darkreading.com/endpoint-sec...
CrowdStrike Falcon Can Now Ingest Microsoft Defender Telemetry
CrowdStrike Falcon now supports Microsoft Defender data for better threat detection and analytics in its Next-Gen SIEM platform
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Delinea's StrongDM Acquisition Highlights the Changing Role of Privilege Access Management www.darkreading.com/identity-acc...
Delinea Closes StrongDM Deal, Boosts PAM Capabilities
With StrongDM's product portfolio, Delinea will be able to offer privilege access management across cloud, SaaS, Kubernetes, and database environments.
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Quantum-Resistant Data Diode Secures Sensitive Data on Edge Devices, Critical Systems - www.darkreading.com/ics-ot-secur...
Quantum-Resistant Data Diode Secures Data on Edge Devices
Forward Edge-AI's new Isidore Quantum is a compact, low-power hardware device that protects sensitive data on edge devices against quantum attacks.
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Zscaler is the latest cybersecurity giant to snap up a secure Web browser technology provider with the acquistion of early-stage startup SquareX www.darkreading.com/remote-workf...
Zscaler-SquareX Deal Expands Zero Trust & Secure Browsing
With merger, Zscaler will add the SquareX browser extension to the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform to boost its browser security capabilities.
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TransUnion's Real Networks Deal Focuses on Robocall Blocking - www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/t...
TransUnion's Real Networks Deal Focuses on Robocall Blocking
The acquisition allows the credit reporting agency to add SMS spam and scam prevention to its robocall blocking capabilities.
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Tenable Tackles AI Governance, Shadow AI Risks, Data Exposure - www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/t...
Tenable Tackles AI Governance, Shadow AI Risks, Data Exposure
The Tenable One AI Exposure add-on discovers unsanctioned AI use in the organization and enforces policy compliance with approved tools.
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ServiceNow has agreed to acquire acquire Armis, an information technology/operational technology (IT/OT) cybersecurity platform provider for $7.75 billion. The deal is ServiceNow's largest purchase to date, and its fourth cybersecurity acquisition over the past year.
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Microsoft to Bundle Security Copilot in M365 Enterprise License
The move aims to expand the use of Security Copilot and comes with the launch of 12 new agents from Microsoft at the company's Ignite conference last week.
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ServiceNow's Acquisition of NHI Provider Veza Strengthens Governance Portfolio
ServiceNow to Acquire NHI Provider Veza in Governance Play
The deal, believed to be valued at $1 billion, will bring non-human identity access control of agents and machines to ServiceNow’s offerings
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Varonis has acquired email security provider SlashNext and plans to add advanced phishing protection to its data security platform. www.darkreading.com/endpoint-sec...
Varonis Acquires Email Security Provider SlashNext
Varonis plans to integrate SlashNext's advanced phishing, BEC, and social engineering attack protection capabilities into its data security platform.
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IBM Consulting, Keyfactor, Quantinuum and Thales are pooling their respective resources to provide enterprises with unified post-quantum cryptography (PQC) technology and services with the new Quantum-Safe 360 Alliance.
New Quantum-Safe Alliance Aims to Accelerate PQC Implementation
The new Quantum-Safe 360 Alliance will provide road maps, technology, and services to help organizations navigate the post-quantum cryptography transition before the 2030 deadline.
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Chainguard is among the fastest-growing cybersecurity unicorns. Co-founder and CEO Dan Lorenc and newly appointed CISO Quincy Castro share their ambitious roadmap to expand its secure-by-default libraries to include Python, Java and a new Linux distro.
Minimal, Hardened & Updated Daily: The New Standard for Secure Containers
Chainguard provides DevSecOps teams with a library of "secure-by-default" container images so that they don't have to worry about software supply chain vulnerabilities. The startup is expanding its fo...
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LevelBlue, the cybersecurity services business spun out of AT&T last year, announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Trustwave from The Chertoff Group-sponsored MC2 Security Fund for an undisclosed amount.
LevelBlue Acquires Trustwave, Forms World's Largest Independent MSSP
As the largest managed security services provider, the combined entity will offer cyber consulting, managed detection and response, and incident response services.
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IBM has plans to integrate its watsonx.governance and Guardium AI Security offerings to help organizations integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their daily operations and to get security and governance teams on the same page.
IBM Pushes for More Collaboration Between Security, Governance
IBM is integrating its governance and AI security tools to address the risks associated with the AI adoption boom.
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SIEM platform provider Securonix has acquired ThreatQuotient to strengthen its breach detection and incident and response capabilities.
Securonix Acquires Threat Intelligence Firm ThreatQuotient
The deal will combine Securonix's security information and event management (SIEM) platform with ThreatQuotient's threat detection and incident response (TDIR) offering to build an all-in-one security...
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Apex Security will enhance Tenable's AI Aware by mitigating the threats and risks it finds, establishing best practices for AI security, and enforcing existing security policies.
Tenable to Acquire AI Security Startup Apex
Apex will enhance Tenable's AI Aware tool by mitigating the threats of AI applications and tools not governed by organizations, while enforcing existing security policies.
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Microsoft's David Weston describes the new Administrator Protection feature it plans to roll out as the most significant architectural Windows security change in a generation. www.darkreading.com/endpoint-sec...
Microsoft Readies Administrator Protection Option for Windows 11
Microsoft's David Weston describes the new feature as the most significant architectural Windows security change in a generation.
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Among the new security capabilities that use agentic AI announced by Cisco at the RSA conference this week Instant Attack Verification uses agentic AI to initiate and process incident investigations autonomously.
Cisco Boosts XDR Platform, Splunk With Agentic AI
Cisco joins the agentic AI wave with the introduction of advanced LLMs to autonomously verify and investigate attacks.
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Palo Alto Networks has begun rolling out Cortex Cloud, the outgrowth of its efforts to provide a unified cloud security platform with automation and real-time detection and response capabilities for security operations centers (SOCs). www.darkreading.com/cloud-securi...
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New Google Workspace features will make it easier for enterprise customers to implement end-to-end encryption within Gmail.
Google Brings End-to-End Encryption to Gmail
The new Google Workspace features will make it easier for enterprise customers to implement end-to-end encryption within Gmail.
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Microsoft is adding agentic AI capabilities to its Security Copilot, enabling the digital assistant to offload and automate specific processes now performed by security teams, such as triaging phishing alerts and vetting and remediating threats.
Microsoft Gives Security Copilot Some Autonomy
New agentic AI capabilities in Microsoft Security Copilot will allow agents to triage threats and provide recommendations.
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HP previewed enterprise and professional-grade printers resistant to quantum attacks at the company's annual Amplify partner conference in Nashville, Tenn. this week. The upgraded versions of the printers, which support the NIST PQC standards approved last year, are slated to arrive this fall.
HP Brings Quantum-Safe Encryption to Printers
Starting this fall, HP's 8000 Series enterprise and commercial printers, which include Color LaserJet Enterprise MFP 8801, Mono MFP 8601, and LaserJet Pro Mono SFP 8501, will feature new quantum ASICs...
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At F5 AppWorld, the F5 Application Delivery Controller and Security Platform was launched. It combines BIG-IP, NGINX and Distributed Cloud Services and new AI Gateway and AI Assistants.
F5 Integrates API Security and Networking to Address AI Onslaught
The new The F5 Application Delivery Controller and Security Platform combines BIG-IP, NGNIX and Distributed Cloud Services and new AI Gateway and AI Assistants.
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Operational technology (OT) exposure management provider Armis has acquired OTORIO.
Armis Acquires Otorio to Expand OT Exposure Management Platform
Armis will integrate Otorio's Titan platform with its cloud-based Centrix, bringing an on-premises option to the cloud-only offering.
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Google revealed its roadmap for implementing the National Institute for Science and Technology Standards’ (NIST’s) new post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards with the addition of quantum-resistant digital signature support to its Cloud Key Management Service (KMS).
Google Adds Quantum-Resistant Digital Signatures to Cloud KMS
The new Cloud Key Management Service is part of Google’s new roadmap for implementing the new NIST-based post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards.
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