The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 27, 2022

This due diligence process should account for: •Deal information exposure. Depending on the nature of the deal, a select number of employees will have knowledge about the deal before closing. Fast-paced deals and lack of support from the acquired organization can also exacerbate these risks. Lack of documented evidence.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Based on 2,500 deals, it found that more than 60% destroyed shareholder value. “Despite slower deal volumes in 2023, M&A interest in cybersecurity remains high and I expect we’ll see an uptick in activity later this year and into 2024,” said Chris Stafford, who is a partner in West Monroe’s M&A Practice. Consulting.

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OpenText Information Management

APRIL 15, 2024

Customers look for platforms that easily scale resources up or down based on demand and allow them to manage their data workloads more flexibly and cost-effectively compared to traditional on-premises solutions. we’re announcing a new analytics cloud database.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 14, 2022

Despite those headwinds, there are some interesting deals getting done in the cybersecurity market. Cybersecurity innovation is alive and well and cybersecurity continues to be a spending priority for public and private sector institutions,” said Alberto Yepez, managing director and co-founder at Forgepoint Capital.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The National Logistics Portal (NLP), a newly launched platform to manage all port operations in India, left public access to sensitive data, posing the risk of a potential takeover by threat actors. As the platform deals with the country’s critical infrastructure, this oversight might introduce great risk.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Delegated User Management: The Key to Secure Online Collaboration madhav Thu, 02/15/2024 - 05:29 In the digital age, collaboration between human beings has leapt out of the confines of the physical office and the individual organization. At the heart of this challenge is user identity and access management.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 17, 2022

NetSPI, a top penetration testing and vulnerability management company, recently announced a $410 million funding round, a huge amount in a year in which $100+ million rounds have become a rarity. The number of deals for this year’s Q3 was only 124. Besides the NetSPI funding, there have been some other interesting recent deals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 1, 2023

5 Ways CIAM Enables Effective, Secure Business Partner Identity Management madhav Tue, 05/02/2023 - 05:40 Businesses and their partners must work together without barriers to maximize customer value. At its core, this challenge calls for a robust CIAM platform to help connect and protect organizations’ business-to-business ecosystems.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Professional networking and social media platforms continue to prove a rich landscape for phone numbers, locations, hobbies, dates of birth, family members, and friendships. a digital marketing agency; he has expertise in the cybersecurity and IT managed services fields.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This SaaS (Software as a Service) will help you manage all your cyber security and data privacy obligations in one place. I’m Sam, and I’m the product marketing manager for CyberComply. More than that, our platform isn’t limited to ISO 27001, or even a handful of standards and regulations.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Attack surface management (ASM) is a relatively new cybersecurity technology that combines elements of vulnerability management and asset discovery with the automation capabilities of breach and attack simulation (BAS) and applies them to an organization’s entire IT environment, from networks to the cloud.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 27, 2023

Just five of those deals came in the second quarter: Blackpoint Cyber, ID.me, Cyera, Cybereason, and Eagle Eye Networks, and the highest was Blackpoint’s $190 million Series C round. “From what I’ve seen, these deals fall into three buckets,” said Seth Spergel, managing partner at Merlin Ventures.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Senior management is now focused on embracing well-vetted best practices such as those outlined in FFIEC and SOC 2 , and many more. Consider that PCI-DSS alone has over 250 complex requirements that include things like endpoint protection, password management, anti-virus, border security, data recovery and awareness training.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And this year, ESPN Fantasy Football is using AI models built with watsonx to provide 11 million fantasy managers with a data-rich, AI-infused experience that transcends traditional statistics. ” Trade Grades are another new feature that helps managers assess the value of potential trades.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 26, 2023

Thales partners with Hint AG to provide managed security services for the Swiss healthcare sector madhav Thu, 07/27/2023 - 04:32 Analysts from Statista are projecting that the Healthcare market in Switzerland will need to invest 1.3 Identify and secure data across structured, unstructured and big data platforms. Reduce time-to-value.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups. Another “swarm” of LinkedIn bot accounts flagged by Taylor’s group. ”

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 25, 2024

Get the study: The Revolutionary Content Supply Chain A content supply chain brings together people, processes, and technology to effectively plan, create, produce, launch, measure, and manage content. A new way to create and manage content Any new concept or major change comes with some hesitancy and push back.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 5, 2023

If you really think about it, insurance also deals directly with the lives of its clients. With so much riding on the assets of an insurance organization, though, one thing is certain: the need for easy access and reliable data that will be protected with the right identity access management. Leveraging a CIAM platform a.s.r.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

One key similarity lies in the meticulous management of data, starting from governance levels and progressing through collection, processing, review, and export stages. Efficient workflow management is crucial for both FOIA requests and eDiscovery. Search and review processes are central to both FOIA requests and eDiscovery workflows.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

This ultimately resulted in the 2020 roll out of DigiCert ONE, a new platform of tools and services aimed at “embedding digital trust across the board within the enterprise and between all parts of the cloud ecosystem,” Chauhan says. Back in Silicon Valley, Oracle was playing catchup.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Confidential & Semi-Private Files Legally protected files should be stored on compliant cloud platforms; industry-specific security procedures required for confidential files. Understanding these risks helps firms implement informed risk management and mitigation strategies.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 15, 2023

Vulnerability management is the process of identifying, classifying, remediating, and mitigating vulnerabilities. There are many different vulnerability management frameworks, but the vulnerability management lifecycle of most organizations today typically includes five phases.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

DPFS will be relevant to all those in financial services, including those in the banking, insurance, fintech, funds, payments, private equity, securities, wealth management, and other financial sectors. How to deal with and manage the key issues for 2022, such as AI, data governance, and international transfers.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 4, 2023

Adding a platform layer to Bing, so third party developers can integrate in much the same manner as they can with ChatGPT’s plugins, which I’ve both praised and trashed in past posts (praised because of their potential, trashed because the model reminds me of the app store, which is a walled garden nightmare).

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Billion Deal ). STG co-founder and Managing Partner William Chisholm said in a statement, “Cyber risk is the number one threat facing modern organizations and we are excited to advance our growing portfolio of cybersecurity companies. Industry analysts have speculated that STG might merge at least some of its security holdings.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 21, 2021

If Spotify has an excuse, it is that the complexity of issuing and managing digital certificates has become prodigious. They’re in need of better ways to manage PKI, and it can’t be human error-prone processes. It’s not just a matter of dealing with the sheer volume of certificates. Here are key takeaways: PKI on centerstage.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2022

John Todd is general manager of Quad9 , a free “anycast” DNS platform. that are easier for computers to manage. But the data collected by Quad9 suggest that a great deal of low-level cyberattacks targeting Ukrainians remain ongoing.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2022

Third-Party Risk Management ( TPRM ) has been around since the mid-1990s – and has become something of an auditing nightmare. Observes Stapleton: “It’s a combination of capabilities that produces something that is truly actionable, specifically for the purposes of improving third party risk management outcomes.”.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

–Organizations juggle an average of 127 third-party API connections, yet only 33% feel secure : While dealing with an average of 127 third-party API connections, a mere 33% express confidence in managing these external threats.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Payment rails are the most critical element when thinking about payments No matter their size, scope or sector, all businesses that handle transactions and transfers deal with payments—and this means dealing with payment rails.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2023

But those brokers would eventually get stiffed because Bernard’s company would never consummate a deal. However, the due diligence company he insisted on using — another Swiss firm called The Inside Knowledge GmbH — also was secretly owned by Bernard, who would invariably pull out of the deal after receiving the due diligence money.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2019

Because this incident deals with somewhat jargon-laced and esoteric concepts, much of what is described below has been dramatically simplified. The misconfiguration of the WAF allowed the intruder to trick the firewall into relaying requests to a key back-end resource on the AWS platform.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

That’s where managed security services providers, or MSSPs, come in. MSSPs monitor and manage cybersecurity systems as a contracted service. This can include spam filtering, malware detection, firewalls upkeep, vulnerability management and more. Here are the key takeaways: Rethinking the platform. Eroding effectiveness.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 10, 2020

Related : SMBs are ill-equipped to deal with cyber threats Without a cohesive cybersecurity framework, SMBs are falling further behind as digital transformation, or DX, ramps up. Embracing digital transformation becomes even more of a challenge without a dedicated platform to address vulnerabilities. That’s our goal.”

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 12, 2024

For enterprises dealing with sensitive information, it is vital to maintain state-of-the-art data security in order to reap the rewards,” says Stuart Winter, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder at Lacero Platform Limited, Jamworks and Guardian. . “AI is driving a revolution in education, accessibility and productivity.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 3, 2021

FireEye’s products span network, email, endpoint and cloud security , and the vendor has been pursuing an XDR platform approach to unite them all. Gartner expects worldwide information security and risk management spending to grow 12% this year to $150 billion, with services making up almost half the market.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But when organisations are dealing with Cloud services provided by Microsoft, it makes sense to gain the requisite training straight from the source. It’s the platform for delivering Microsoft Office 365 client services, such as Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and the Office applications. Getting started.

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