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Sophos unifies threat analysis and response units into X-Ops team

UK-based cybersecurity vendor Sophos announced today that it had reorganized its SophosLabs, Sophos SecOps and Sophos AI teams into an umbrella group called Sophos X-Ops, in order to provide a more unified response to advanced threats. The company said that while its security teams routinely share information among themselves, the creation of the X-Ops team makes that process faster and more streamlined. According to Joe Levy, CTO and chief product officer at Sophos, the new organizational move is a recognition of the fact that the threat landscape has changed rapidly of late, and that there’s an increasing need for collaboration. “Modern cybersecurity is becoming a highly interactive team sport, and as the industry has matured, necessary analysis, engineering and investigative specializations have emerged,” he said in a statement. “Attackers are often too organized and too advanced to combat without the unique combined expertise and operational efficiency of a joint task force like Sophos X-Ops.” To read this article in full, please click here
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Spate of pending U.S. privacy initiatives could significantly impact businesses

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, which will expose pregnant people in over half of U.S. states to a digital law enforcement surveillance environment, the Biden administration and Congress have kicked into gear to address a spate of privacy and digital protection threats that substantially broaden the scope of privacy and data security protections. To read this article in full, please click here
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Huntress acquires security awareness training platform Curricula for $22 million

Huntress, the managed security platform for SMBs, has acquired Curricula, a story-based security awareness training platform that empowers employees to better defend themselves against hackers. In addition to its core platform, Curricula offers a number of additional features to help businesses build a positively focused security culture – including a gamified phishing simulator, story-based training episodes, custom content creation tools, compliance reporting, and more. In this Help Net Security video, Marcos Torres, Huntress’ CFO, talks … More → The post Huntress acquires security awareness training platform Curricula for $22 million appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Push Security raises $4 million to introduce user-centric approach to securing SaaS

Push Security announced it completed a $4 million seed round led by Decibel and backed by prominent industry leaders, including Jon Oberheide, co-founder of Duo Security, and Haroon Meer, CEO and founder of Thinkst. With this funding, Push will continue to develop technology that guides employees to make smart decisions while they are using company SaaS platforms, enlisting their help to improve security. In a cloud-first world, employees are moving fast and adopting SaaS platforms … More → The post Push Security raises $4 million to introduce user-centric approach to securing SaaS appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Contractors sat up and listened to an astonishing speech from a military acquisition leader

A high ranking military official recently cited acquisition and the Defense supply chain in predicting mathematical certainty of the US losing out to China. That made contractors sit up and listen.
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10 industry-defining security incidents from the last decade

The last decade has seen its fair share of watershed moments that have had major implications on the cybersecurity landscape. Severe vulnerabilities, mass exploitations, and widespread cyberattacks have reshaped many aspects of modern security. To take stock of the past 10 years, cybersecurity vendor Trustwave has published the Decade Retrospective: The State of Vulnerabilities blog post featuring a list of what it considers to be the 10 most prominent and notable network security issues and breaches of the last 10 years. “It is difficult to tell the complete story about the network security landscape from the past decade because security tools and event loggers have evolved so much recently that many of the metrics that we take for granted today simply did not exist 10 years back,” the blog read. “Nevertheless, the data that is available provides enough information to spot some significant trends. The most obvious trend, based on sources like the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), Exploit-DB, VulnIQ, and Trustwave’s own security data, is that security incidents and individual vulnerabilities have been increasing in number and becoming more sophisticated,” it added. To read this article in full, please click here
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