Michael Vizard Mike Vizard is a seasoned IT journalist with over 25 years of experience. He also contributed to IT Business Edge, Channel Insider, Baseline and a variety of other IT titles. Previously, Vizard was the editorial director for Ziff-Davis Enterprise as well as Editor-in-Chief for CRN and InfoWorld.
Michael Vizard
Orca Security Extends Visibility Into the Cloud Security
Orca Security this week added an ability to classify cloud security threats in a way that enables security operations teams to better prioritize their remediation efforts ... Read More
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Salt Security Provides Free Scans for XXS Vulnerabilities Involving OAuth Protocol
Salt Security is making available a free scanning tool that it has been using to assess the level of potential risk organizations face from cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks in the wake of discovering similar flaws in multiple websites, including the Hotjar service that millions of users rely on to analyze ... Read More
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Opal Security Extends Scope and Reach of Platform for Managing Privileges
Michael Vizard | | access, Cloud Security, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, Phishing, privilege, Security Awareness
Opal Security this week updated its privilege posture management platform to provide the ability to detect irregular access to an IT environment and manage privileges by groups ... Read More
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Report: Amount of Data Being Analyzed by Cybersecurity Teams Rises
An analysis published today by Cribl, a data management platform provider, suggests that the amount of data being processed and analyzed by cybersecurity teams is increasing exponentially ... Read More
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IBM: Cost of Data Breach on Average Reaches $4.9 Million
An IBM analysis of 604 organizations published today finds the average cost of each breach, including lost revenue, has now reached $4.9 million ... Read More
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Fortanix Extends Encyption Key Discovery to On-Premises IT Platforms
Michael Vizard | | Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, data protection, Data Security, encryption keys, security
Fortanix today extended the reach of its ability to discover encryption keys to on-premises IT environments to enable organizations to more comprehensively manage risks ... Read More
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Report: An 18% Increase in Ransomware Attacks Includes $75M Payment
A report published today by Zscaler finds an 18% increase in ransomware attacks, including one that involved a record $75 million payment that appears to have been made to the Dark Angels ransomware group ... Read More
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Rezonate Streamlines Identity Security Across IT Environments
Michael Vizard | | Cybersecurity, human ID, identity, identity security, IT Security, non-human ID, zero trust
Rezonate has extended the reach of its platform for managing access to infrastructure to include the credentials that are used by humans alongside the identifies of machines and software components that organizations need to track to ensure zero-trust security ... Read More
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CISA Alert Calls Out Operating System Vulnerabilities
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has jointly issued a Secure by Design Alert in response to threat actor campaigns that exploit operating system (OS) command injection defects in network edge devices. The alert notes these vulnerabilities, which allow unauthenticated ... Read More
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Survey: Nearly Half of SMEs Fell Victim to Cyberattack in Last Six Months
A survey shows that nearly half of all small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) fell victim to cyberattacks in the first half of this year ... Read More
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