Airbus has made a formal offer to purchase a 29.9% stake in Atos' $4.8 billion Evidian cybersecurity, big data and digital business. Atos says it will initiate negotiations focused on both Airbus' offer and a long-term strategic and technological partnership between the two organizations.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discuss the ESXiArgs ransomware campaign that has snared 2,800 victims, the data breach reported in an SEC filing by a multistate hospital chain, and Check Point's building of SD-WAN capabilities that are integrated with the company's network security stack.
In this podcast, Rodman Ramezanian, global cloud threat lead at Skyhigh Security, discusses why the risk of data breaches is so high, how security teams can protect data wherever it resides, and why security leaders should embrace a new mindset for data protection.
Open Systems has split its MDR and SASE businesses into separate divisions with unique executive teams to help each optimize its engineering stack and selling motion. The 300-person MDR division will be known as Ontinue and led by Geoff Haydon, who had served as Open Systems CEO since February 2021.
Federal authorities are urging healthcare sector entities to take steps to protect their web applications, connected devices and other critical systems against distributed denial-of-service attacks. The warning comes weeks after a wave of DDoS attacks from Russian nuisance hacking group KillNet.
Managed detection and response titan Deepwatch has received a $180 million investment to strengthen its threat analytics, user interface and security scoring for clients. The money from Splunk, Springcoast and Vista will allow Deepwatch to invest in R&D, platform innovation and threat intelligence.
The founding team behind SOAR vendor Demisto has started a passwordless authentication and user management platform company that caters to the developer community. Descope helps developers embed authentication in the application build process and competes with Auth0 in the CIAM space.
As ransomware continues to disrupt British organizations, the U.K. for the first time has sanctioned alleged cybercriminals, including accused Conti and TrickBot operators. Ransomware victims must conduct due diligence before paying any ransom, as violating sanctions carries severe penalties.
Zscaler has agreed to purchase a startup established by a former Proofpoint executive to help organizations thwart SaaS supply chain attacks. The proposed acquisition of Tel Aviv, Israel-based Canonic Security will help customers streamline SaaS application governance and enforcement.
Before healthcare entities can promise advanced identity and access management technologies and practices, their IAM programs need to address important fundamentals, which many entities still struggle with due to the complexity of healthcare itself, says Erik Decker, CISO of Intermountain Health.
Check Point has at last introduced an SD-WAN offering that supports more than 1,000 applications and is tightly integrated into the company's network security stack, CEO Gil Shwed says. The debut of Quantum SD-WAN makes Check Point Software the last major firewall vendor to enter the SD-WAN space.
The Play ransomware group listed networking hardware manufacturer A10 Networks on its leak site after briefly gaining access to the company's IT infrastructure, according to data breach notifications firm BetterCyber. The Play group says it has confidential data, technical documentation and more.
Healthcare entities and their vendors should be prepared to show evidence to regulators of how they've implemented "recognized security practices," or RSPs, says Robert Booker, chief strategy officer of HITRUST. "You've got to demonstrate that you align with a framework."
Identity verification and lack of WebAuthn implementation in legacy applications and smartphones are two of the biggest challenges associated with adopting FIDO authentication. Merck Germany's Andreas Pellenghar also says the current setup of jumping to a browser to log in is turning people off.
Reddit says hackers penetrated its internal systems via a phishing attack but that user passwords and accounts appear safe. The self-proclaimed "front page of the internet" says the hackers gained access to its internal documents, code and some internal business systems.
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