Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The Vision Leading to Check Point's Acquisition of Cyberint

The cyber threat landscape is complex and includes many vectors of attack. Organizations face critical security challenges every day, such as stolen employee credentials, fake websites, and social media impersonation. Taking a binary point of view, those threats can be divided into two simplistic dimensions: external and internal. According to the 2023 Verizon DBIR, the external threats consume 83% of the total threats.

5 Genuine Reasons - Why Mergers & Acquisitions Need Virtual Data Rooms

Virtual data rooms (VDRs) are revolutionizing merger and acquisition operations. They enable all parties involved - buyers, sellers, and intermediaries - to access, exchange, and analyze large amounts of information quickly and efficiently. This not only speeds up the transaction process but also increases its overall value. All transaction participants have access to a secure place to request, share, organize, and store thousands of confidential documents when using a virtual M&A data room.

Cloudflare acquires BastionZero to extend Zero Trust access to IT infrastructure

We’re excited to announce that BastionZero, a Zero Trust infrastructure access platform, has joined Cloudflare. This acquisition extends our Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) flows with native access management for infrastructure like servers, Kubernetes clusters, and databases.

Bugcrowd Acquires Informer

It is a proud and exciting day for me to announce that Bugcrowd has acquired Informer. On this momentous day, I can’t help but take a walk down memory lane, thinking about the past decade of hard work and innovation that led us to this moment. Ten years ago, I founded a specialist penetration testing business called The Security Bureau. As our client base grew, certain patterns emerged and it became clear that many organizations were unsure of exactly which assets were internet-facing.

A Practical Approach to Streamline M&A

Mergers and acquisitions often sound amazing to the Board, but they can become an operational nightmare for the infrastructure, networking, and security teams. In recent years, I’ve worked with a fair few highly acquisitive organisations and so I have seen firsthand that the practical steps to onboard new users can become hugely challenging–especially when the two organisations are running different technologies.

How to navigate the rapid changes and consolidation in the SIEM and security analytics market

The security solutions landscape is evolving at a breakneck pace, with significant acquisitions reshaping the market. Notably, Palo Alto Networks has acquired IBM's QRadar product line, and Exabeam and LogRhythm have announced their merger. These moves echo Cisco's previous acquisition of Splunk, highlighting a trend where major players like AWS, Microsoft, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and CrowdStrike are consolidating their positions in the SIEM and security analytics space.

Veracode Advances Cloud-Native Application Security with Longbow Acquisition

As I travel around the world meeting with customers and prospects, we often discuss the tectonic shifts happening in the industry. At the heart of their strategic initiatives, organizations are striving to innovate rapidly and deliver customer value with uncompromising quality and security, while gaining a competitive edge in the market.

JumpCloud Acquires Resmo for Integrated Asset Management

JumpCloud has acquired Resmo, an asset management and SaaS security solution, to provide customers a unified solution of SaaS, IT security, and asset management that empowers them to eliminate shadow IT and gain full visibility into all apps and cloud infrastructure in an all-in-one solution. The inclusion of Resmo’s technologies will enhance JumpCloud’s ability to help customers deliver secure and streamlined user provisioning, access request management, and utilization monitoring.