Special Meeting of Stockholders to Vote on Pending Acquisition by Thoma Bravo to be Scheduled for Later Date Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced its Board of Directors has cancelled the 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders scheduled for June 15, 2021. This follows 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…

By Adam Nichols, Principal of Software Security at GRIMM The technology we use and depend upon has critical vulnerabilities in their software and firmware, lurking just beneath the surface of the code. Yet, our process has not changed.  A week does not go by where we are not reading about a serious vulnerability in the news and subsequently scrambling to see if we are affected. This scramble, this mad dash, is a process we have…

By Don Boxley, Co-founder and CEO, DH2i When it comes to optimizing Microsoft SQL Server high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR), there’s a strong correlation between greater database transaction processing performance, business resiliency, and profitability—particularly for workloads like those in industries like financial services, though certainly other sectors as well. The fact is that our world is connected yet fragile, which creates many challenges when it comes to database HA/DR—specifically with resilience, security, and…

The restaurant chain reportedly said no U.S. customer data was exposed and the attack did not involve ransomware. Image: seksan Mongkhonkhamsao/Moment/Getty Images McDonald’s is the latest company to fall victim to a cyberattack exposing customer and other data in the U.S., Taiwan and China, The Wall Street Journal has reported. The restaurant giant reportedly told the paper that it has hired external investigators to analyze unauthorized activity on an internal security system. No U.S. customer…

On May 12, the President signed the executive order (EO) on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity. As with every executive order, it establishes timelines for compliance and specific requirements of executive branch agencies to provide specific plans to meet the stated objectives. It is clear from the EO that the Executive Office of the President is putting significant emphasis on cyber threat intelligence and how it will help government agencies make better decisions about responding to…