FortyCloud, an Israeli cloud security service, announced today it was joining the Rackspace Marketplace to provide Rackspace customers with cloud security services and the ability to safely connect between different cloud products. Like any good partnership if it offers something to both parties giving FortyCloud access to Rackspace customers, who then get access to FortyCloud’s… Read […]
Posted on August 9th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Cyber security startup Hexadite, launched by three former Israeli intelligence officials, came out of stealth today and announced $2.5 million in seed funding. The money comes from YL Ventures with a contribution from former Microsoft Vice president Moshe Lichtman, a general partner at Israeli venture capital firm, Israel Growth Partners. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on July 6th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
This morning General Electric announced it had completed a deal to buy Wurldtech, a Vancouver-based cyber-security firm that protects big industrial sites like refineries and power plants from cyber attacks. GE VP and world technology head, Bill Ruh told me that they intend to leave Wurldtech as a wholly owned subsidiary. The newly purchased company […]
Posted on May 9th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Today, FireEye, a security and intrusion detection company, bought nPulse Technologies to beef up its security platform by giving customers easier insight into the nature of a network intrusion. According to FireEye, they will pay approximately $60 million in cash, and issue around $10 million in stock consideration that is subject to the achievement of certain milestones. They […]
Posted on May 7th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
London-based security company CertiVox, which sells information security infrastructure-as-a-service, has closed an $8 million Series B round of investment from new investors NTT Docomo Ventures (making its first investment in Europe), along with existing investor Octopus Investments. Read More Tweet This Post
Posted on May 3rd, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Swiss-Hungarian startup Tresorit is a cloud-storage solution it claims one-ups the likes of Dropbox and Box in terms of security and privacy because it employs end-to-end encryption, meaning that you — and only you — have access to the “keys” needed to access your files. And, according to the company, without losing the convenience of […]
Posted on May 1st, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
IBM has seen the technology world changing as much as any other vendor and that’s part of the reason it bought SoftLayer last year –to broaden its cloud offerings. Today, the company has built upon that, announcing new security and disaster recovery services that could make the cloud more attractive to companies that remain skeptical. One area the cloud […]
Posted on April 14th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Cotap, an enterprise messaging startup founded by ex-Yammer execs, launched last year with ambitions to be the “WhatsApp for the workplace” — a free app that was as ubiquitous as the popular messaging service bought by Facebook in February for $19 billion, used not just by “road warrior” white collar workers as an extension of their desktop […]
Posted on April 3rd, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
To catch a sophisticated cybercriminal in today’s age, IT departments must look deeper into their web traffic and examine many sources of information about web visitors and sessions to determine what behavior is typical and what is not. Existing solutions for detecting and analyzing online criminal behavior usually identify either pre-authentification threats , or post […]
Posted on March 28th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
Security News Digest Cybersecurity IT Pros are in short supply IT Pros who can handle cybersecurity are in short supply Cybersecurity specialist are not being trained by our educational system and this shows with high… Top 10 Data Security Risks for Cloud Storage There is tremendous anxiety about security risks in the cloud. CIOs and […]
Posted on March 11th, 2014 by admin
Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »
