Cyber risks for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have never been higher. SMBs face a barrage of attacks, including ransomware, malware and variations of phishing/vishing. This is one reason why the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) states “thousands of SMBs have been harmed by ransomware attacks, with small businesses three times more likely to be targeted by cybercriminals than larger companies.”

Every day more than 2 billion documents and emails are added to Microsoft 365, making this critical data a priority target for ransomware and other cyber attacks. After all, 61% of attacks affect SaaS applications, the most targeted platform / environment. This data can also often be unstructured, and rapidly processing and managing the content at enterprise scale is critical when it comes to both applying protection and performing restores.

When it comes to conducting vendor security reviews, the two most time-consuming tasks are gathering the relevant information from your vendor and analyzing it thoroughly. Last month, we announced AI-powered security document analysis to drastically simplify the process of extracting insights from SOC 2 reports, DPAs, and other sources that document a vendor’s security posture.

CyberArk MFA now supports authentication with phishing-resistant passkeys and qualifies for the highest NIST Authenticator Assurance Level (AAL3). Based on FIDO2 standards, passkeys replace passwords and provide faster, easier and more secure sign-ins to websites and apps across user devices. With this release, end users can authenticate using passkeys to access their applications and resources.

It’s been a long journey toward securing and optimizing the enterprise branch, from the days of rigid MPLS networks to the agile era of SD-WAN. Now comes the next stage of that journey: Secure access service edge (SASE), which, when architected correctly, converges the most important network and security capabilities into a single cloud-delivered service. Before we talk about how, though, let’s examine why SASE’s moment is now.

Elastic Security 8.11 introduces pipe queries with Elasticsearch Query Language (ES|QL), an Elastic AI Assistant connector for AWS Bedrock, and data integrations for Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Wiz, and Palo Alto Prisma Cloud. Together, these enhancements deliver vital guidance and context to threat hunters and investigators. Elastic Security 8.11 is available now on Elastic Cloud — the only hosted Elasticsearch® offering to include all of the new features in this latest release.

We’re extremely excited to announce the availability of the EventSentry v5.1, which will detect threats and suspicious behavior more effectively – while also providing users with additional reports and dashboards for CMMC and TISAX compliance. The usability of EventSentry was also improved across the board, making it easier to use, manage and maintain EventSentry on a day-by-day basis. We also released 60+ training videos to help you get started and take EventSentry to the next level.

San Francisco, CA, November 2, 2023—Nightfall AI, the leader in cloud data leak prevention (cloud DLP), announced the launch of the industry’s only AI-native DLP solution for popular communication app Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams continues to grow as a top enterprise collaboration tool, with over 300 million monthly active users reported in Q3 of 2023. As the dominant communication app in highly regulated industries (e.g.

Mend Renovate is the industry leader in dependency management, downloaded more than a billion times — including by most of the top 10 tech giants — to help keep their applications safe and up to date. Its primary job is to scan your application software looking for external dependencies, and if newer versions are available, it will suggest code changes to upgrade you to the latest.

Welcome to the extended reality of the GitProtect 1.6.0 release! What great features are awaiting you? We’ve been trying to hint about some upcoming changes in the Jira restore process to you earlier … And now we are more than happy to announce the official launch of the GitProtect Granular Restore for Jira Software.