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Google announced the completion of the acquisition of Mandiant for $5.4 billion

Security Affairs

Mandiant is considered a leading cyber security firm, in 2013 FireEye acquired it, but FireEye separated Mandiant Solutions in 2021 as part of a $1.2 billion appeared first on Security Affairs. (NASDAQ: MNDT) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Google LLC for $23.00

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MY TAKE: How ‘CASBs’ are evolving to close the security gaps arising from digital transformation

The Last Watchdog

The Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) space is maturing to keep pace with digital transformation. One company still actively innovating as an independent CASB is San Jose, CA-based security vendor CipherCloud. CASBs began by closing glaring security gaps created by the rapid adoption of mobile devices and cloud tools.

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GUEST ESSAY: What it will take to train the next generation of cybersecurity analysts

The Last Watchdog

It is no secret that there is, and has been for some time, a shortage of trained cyber security professionals in corporate IT Security teams. The cyber security talent crunch has been a growing issue for many years now. million unfilled cyber security jobs globally by 2021.

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MY TAKE: How advanced automation of threat intel sharing has quickened incident response

The Last Watchdog

based security vendor in the thick of helping companies make more of their threat feeds. The company launched in 2013, the brainchild of Ryan Trost and Wayne Chiang, a couple of buddies working as security analysts in a U.S. We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. ThreatQuotient is a Reston, Virg.-based Talk more soon.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes.

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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

Krebs on Security

Turner said he created the account at Experian in 2020 to place a security freeze on his credit file, and that he used a password manager to select and store a strong, unique password for his Experian account. John Turner is a software engineer based in Salt Lake City. “I have no confidence this won’t happen again.”

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Centre Releases Paper on Big Data and Analytics

Hunton Privacy

The examples in the paper illustrate how Big Data processing occurs and help frame the challenges to analytics and Big Data raised by existing laws, regulations and traditional notions regarding fair information practices.