Financial services giant Morgan Stanley will pay a $35 million fine to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it failed to comply with rules requiring it to safeguard customer data as well as ensure it is disposed of properly.
Deep Instinct has tasked the former CEO of Palo Alto Networks and COO of Zscaler with reworking the company's go-to-market strategy to better serve large enterprises. The company has moved longtime executive Lane Bess from the executive chair to the CEO's seat to recruit experienced sales leaders.
A newly uncovered vulnerability in a wallet addressing tool may be the reason a hacker stole $160 million in digital assets from market maker Wintermute. The company's CEO tweeted that the company is solvent and will honor requests to repay lenders.
CrowdStrike has purchased external attack surface management startup Reposify to help organizations detect and eliminate risk from vulnerable and unknown assets. This deal will allow CrowdStrike to combine its insights on endpoints and IT environments with Reposify's internet-scanning capabilities.
Palo Alto Networks has been in a 19-month dry spell when it comes to major acquisitions, but it looks like that's about to change. Israeli business publication Calcalist reported Monday the firm is closing in on a deal to buy New York-based code risk platform provider Apiiro for around $600 million.
Ransomware gives cryptocurrency a bad name. U.S. federal regulators have noticed, publishing on Friday a slew of recommendations for ensuring that the blockchain world isn't a criminal haven. Among them are legislative proposals that would strengthen anti-money laundering statutes.
Beleaguered vendor IronNet will execute another round of layoffs, axing nearly 90 employees and removing co-CEO William Welch and CFO James Gerber from their posts. IronNet revealed plans to reduce its 250-person staff by approximately 35% less than three months after laying off 55 people.
Foreign investment into the U.S. will undergo added scrutiny for its implications to cybersecurity and data protection under an executive order signed by President Joe Biden. The order focuses on potential security risks of direct investors as well as their ties to third parties that may pose risks.
A host of emerging technologies - including artificial intelligence, 5G cellular, quantum computing, nanomedicine and smart hospitals - offer the potential to revolutionize healthcare, but organizations must carefully evaluate the security risks, federal authorities warn.
NortonLifeLock and Avast completed their $8.6 billion merger Monday, forming a $3.5 billion consumer cyber protection behemoth with expertise across security, privacy and identity. The fully merged company will have fewer than 4,000 employees and will initially go to market as NortonLifeLock.
Mandiant began its new life as part of Google on Monday after the search and public cloud behemoth closed a $5.4 billion acquisition. The megadeal will allow Google to join the back-end data analytics from its Chronicle SIEM platform with Mandiant's ability to identify signals of abnormal behavior.
In this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged," U.S. Air Force Chief Software Officer Nicolas M. Chaillan, a former DHS and DOD adviser, shares his opinions about the government's handling of DevSecOps and cybersecurity, where progress is being made and where more work needs to be done.
After an international law enforcement operation shuttered stolen data forum RaidForums in February, one of its power users launched a replacement called Breached. Within months, the English-language forum has amassed more stolen records and nearly as many users as its predecessor.
Cloudflare has crashed the party for top-performing web application and API protection vendors, joining longtime leaders Akamai and Imperva atop the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant. Gartner observed more separation between the leaders in this market and the rest of the pack.
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