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On January 20, President Joseph Biden issued Executive Order (E.O.) 13990 to help protect U.S. bulk power organizations. This Order enacted a 90-day suspension of E.O. 13920 which was set by the previous administration. The new executive order empowered the Secretary of Energy (“Secretary”) to publish new criteria around pre-qualifying vendors of electric equipment, as well as to devise rules for helping U.S. entities replace electric devices at risk of sabotage. With those functions suspended,…

Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, announced Tenable.io® was named the winner of the SC Awards Europe Best Vulnerability Management Solution category. The enterprise is rapidly evolving as organisations embrace digital transformation. Against this expanded attack surface, organisations struggle with vulnerability overload and the inability to identify today’s most business-critical issues before they become tomorrow’s compromises. Tenable.io was designed to address this challenge. Powered by Nessus technology and managed in the cloud, it automatically detects…

Transaction Is Expected to Close in Third Quarter of 2021 Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced the expiration of the 45-day “go-shop” period under the terms of the previously announced definitive agreement, pursuant to which Thoma Bravo, a leading private equity investment firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sector, will acquire Proofpoint in an all-cash transaction that values Proofpoint at approximately $12.3 billion. The “go-shop” period expired…

Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today announced it has become the first vulnerability management vendor to partner with CyberNB’s Critical Infrastructure Security Operations Center (CI-SOC) to increase the resilience and security of Canada’s critical infrastructure. Through the strategic partnership, Tenable will bring its risk-based vulnerability management and industrial security solutions to the CI-SOC, empowering critical infrastructure stakeholders to see, predict and reduce cybersecurity risk.  CI-SOC brings together data from multiple critical infrastructure owners and…

By Ryan Heidorn, Managing Partner, Steel Root For most Managed Service Providers (MSPs), using a remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform to centrally manage their clients’ networks is a foregone conclusion – it’s generally assumed that RMM tools are necessary to deliver IT services. However, that tide may be turning as more MSPs wake up to the fact that traditional RMM platforms can introduce an increasingly unacceptable level of risk to their business and their…

By, George Waller, CEO of Strikeforce Technologies A full year of disruption by the global pandemic has forced businesses to adapt fast to the shifting remote work realities. This new dynamic, which has employees using their own computers and accessing company networks everywhere but the office, has created new headaches and threat vectors for security and IT professionals. There’s been a massive increase in global cyber attacks aimed at governments and corporations since the very…

Cloud-native applications that are based on new types of infrastructure such as containers and serverless platforms are being rapidly adopted by organizations worldwide. While cloud-native applications deliver compelling benefits such as elastic scalability, unmatched resilience and rapid development velocity, they also raise challenges. Cloud-native applications have a huge number of moving parts and are based on short-lived infrastructure elements that are here one minute and gone the next. This raises operational and maintenance challenges, but…

Siloscape is a new strain of malware that targets Windows Server containers to execute code on the underlying node and spread in the Kubernetes cluster. Researchers from Palo Alto Networks have spotted a piece of malware that targets Windows Server containers to execute code on the underlying node and then drop a backdoor into Kubernetes clusters. Siloscape is a heavily obfuscated malware that was designed to open a backdoor into poorly configured Kubernetes clusters in order…