John DiLullo has been appointed as CEO of Deepwatch, succeeding Charlie Thomas who is retiring and will serve as chairman of the Board of Directors. DiLullo brings over 30 years of experience in leading global technology teams in the cybersecurity industry. He most recently served as CEO of LiveVox, which was acquired by NICE Systems…
Attackers are improving their techniques using genAI, while security practitioners are overwhelmed by vendors offering numerous solutions. Enterprise customers are looking for platforms that provide comprehensive protection across multiple areas: users, devices, applications, data, and development environments. They desire automation, analytics, AI, and generative AI. In response to these demands, significant vendor consolidation has occurred,…
NordVPN has launched a new experimental product called File Checker, an online tool that scans files for malware and viruses. The tool uses machine learning, AI, and other advanced techniques to check against a huge database of known malicious file hashes. Users can upload suspicious files to the tool, which will alert them if the…
The most devastating security failures often occur when assumptions about potential risks are not taken into account. Prior to major incidents, such as 9/11 or the SolarWinds breach, assumptions were made that turned out to be incorrect. The imperative of security is to anticipate and mitigate risks that will arise in the future. Assumptions are…
Cisco has announced patches for a medium-severity zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2024-20399) in the NX-OS software that has been exploited by a China-linked cyberespionage threat actor. The vulnerability affects the command line interface of NX-OS and could allow an authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system with root privileges. Read more