Cisco and Splunk announced a definitive agreement under which Cisco intends to acquire Splunk for $157 per share in cash, representing approximately $28 billion in equity value. Upon close of the acquisition, Splunk President and CEO Gary Steele will join…
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Dig enhances its platform to protect enterprise data in all storage environments
Dig has expanded the Dig Data Security Platform to protect data anywhere enterprises store sensitive information, including public cloud, software as a service (SaaS), database as a service (DBaaS) and on-premise environments. Dig’s data security posture management (DSPM) and data…
BlueVoyant Supply Chain Defense enhancements reduce issues in third-party ecosystems
BlueVoyant released new Supply Chain Defense (SCD) product offerings and services. BlueVoyant now provides a comprehensive solution to reduce cyber risk in organizations’ third-party ecosystems. BlueVoyant has added more options for continuous monitoring of vendors, a fully configurable questionnaire management…
Viavi Observer Sentry provides threat visibility into AWS environments
Viavi Solutions unveiled Observer Sentry, Software-as-a-Service-based Threat Exposure Management providing SecOps, DevOps, and cloud architects much-needed threat visibility into ever-changing AWS environments. The 2023 State of the Network study from VIAVI revealed increases in enterprises’ dependence on the cloud, dissatisfaction…
CyberArk and Accenture join forces to improve identity security for organizations
CyberArk announced that Accenture has expanded its deployment of the CyberArk Identity Security Platform to include CyberArk Privilege Cloud. The solution enables Accenture to control and monitor privileged access across on-premises, cloud and hybrid infrastructures for clients as well as…
Juniper Apstra enhancements simplify and standardize data center architectures
Juniper Networks announced new Juniper Apstra capabilities that enhance operator experiences to facilitate the deployment and operations of private data center infrastructures. With the introduction of new experience-first data center features, including simplified data collection and visualization via graph databases,…
Fake WinRAR PoC spread VenomRAT malware
An unknown threat actor has released a fake proof of concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2023-4047, a recently fixed remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in WinRAR, to spread the VenomRAT malware. The fake WinRAR PoC On August 17, 2023, Trend Micro’s…
Fortress Information Security partners with NetRise to secure software supply chains
Fortress Information Security and NetRise partnered to offer a new, innovative Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) transparency solution to secure software supply chains and meet evolving regulatory requirements for software transparency. Fortress’ cybersecurity experts partner with public sector organizations and…
Critical Trend Micro vulnerability exploited in the wild (CVE-2023-41179)
Trend Micro has fixed a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2023-41179) in several of its endpoint security products for enterprises that has been spotted being exploited in the wild. About CVE-2023-41179 The nature of the flaw hasn’t been revealed, but we know…
Regulatory pressure complicates cybersecurity for industrial equipment manufacturers
50% of companies lack a dedicated security function for control systems and devices within their organizational structure, according to Cybellum. Security incidents involving industrial organizations have seen a sharp rise in recent years, with notable cases highlighting the vulnerabilities in…