New infosec products of the week: August 13, 2021
Here’s a look at the most interesting product releases from the past week, featuring releases from NETGEAR, McAfee, Sectigo, Arcserve and Threat Stack. NETGEAR Armor offers …
Arcserve appliances protect critical IT infrastructure from data loss, downtime, and ransomware
Arcserve announced Arcserve N Series appliances, which deliver integrated hyperscale backup, recovery, and ransomware protection to enterprise infrastructures. The Arcserve N …
Consumers are increasingly concerned about online security and imminent attacks
According to a new Sophos Home survey, forty-five percent of consumers say they’re more at risk of being hit by an attack now than they were before the pandemic, and 61% …
Sophos acquires Braintrace to provide better security outcomes to their MDR customers
Sophos announced that it has acquired Braintrace, further enhancing Sophos’ Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem with Braintrace’s proprietary Network Detection and Response (NDR) …
Sophos XDR: Threat hunting through the entire security ecosystem
Almost a decade ago, ransomware started becoming a prominent consumer problem, locking computers and threatening users with fines and jail time for supposedly downloading …
Security Compass names Rob Bentley as CRO
Security Compass announced the expansion of its executive leadership team. In addition to the internal advancement of multiple strategic leaders, Rob Bentley has been named …
Only 8% of businesses that paid a ransom got all of their data back
The average total cost of recovery from a ransomware attack has more than doubled in a year, increasing from $761,106 in 2020 to $1.85 million in 2021, a Sophos survey …
Organizations can no longer afford to overlook encrypted traffic
Whether you’re a small business operating out of a single office or a global enterprise with a huge and distributed corporate network, not inspecting the encrypted traffic …
Elastic Security 7.12 accelerates threat hunting workflows and prevents ransomware
Elastic announced new updates across the Elastic Security solution in the 7.12 release to accelerate threat hunting and investigation workflows, prevent ransomware, and …
Arcserve UDP 8.0 offers ransomware prevention and data protection
Arcserve unveiled Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) 8.0, which is designed to protect organizations’ entire infrastructure, including hyperconverged, from data loss, …
Multi-payload Gootloader platform stealthily delivers malware and ransomware
The delivery method for the six-year-old Gootkit financial malware has been developed into a complex and stealthy delivery system for a wide range of malware, including …
Bitglass reveals additional technical integrations between its platform and SD-WAN providers
Bitglass announced additional technical integrations between its platform and SD-WAN providers. Specifically, organizations can now use Bitglass to secure traffic coming from …