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Okta CEO: ‘We’re Really, Really Lucky’ To Join With ‘Amazing Company’ Auth0
by Michael Novinson
‘They [Auth0] built the company from the ground up to be focused on developers, and that manifests itself in a lot of different ways. But the biggest way is almost a cultural way,’ says Okta CEO Todd McKinnon.
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Okta To Acquire Red-Hot Identity Vendor Auth0 For $6.5B
by Michael Novinson
The Okta-Auth0 identity megadeal is one of the biggest cybersecurity acquisitions of all-time, behind only Broadcom’s $10.7 billion buy of Symantec in 2019 and Intel’s $7.6 billion purchase of McAfee in 2010.
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Microsoft Exchange Vulnerability Much Larger Than Company Is Saying: Huntress
by Michael Novinson
‘This seems to be a much larger spread than just ‘limited and targeted attacks’ as Microsoft has suggested ... These [victim] companies do not perfectly align with Microsoft’s guidance,’ says Huntress’ John Hammond.
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Microsoft Exchange Server Attacked By Chinese Hackers
by Michael Novinson
Volexity has seen active in-the-wild exploitation of multiple Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities used to steal email and compromise networks, and the attacks appear to have begun as early as Jan. 6.
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Novacoast To Open Two New SOCs Amid ‘Exploding’ Managed Services Demand
by Wade Tyler Millward
The cybersecurity-focused solution provider is expecting revenue growth of 20 percent for 2021 compared to last year, CEO Paul Anderson told CRN.
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It’s Official: Centrify-Thycotic Merger To Form Identity Superstar
by Michael Novinson
The combined company will be led recently-appointed Centrify CEO and former Symantec Enterprise Head Art Gilliland, while James Legg, who has led Thycotic since July 2015, will step into the president role.
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TPG Capital To Buy Thycotic For $1.4B, Merge It With Rival Centrify: Report
by Michael Novinson
The deal between TPG and privileged access management vendor Thycotic was signed Monday but has yet to close. It will lead to the private equity firm combining Thycotic with recently acquired rival Centrify.
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SentinelOne Eyes $10B IPO For Later This Year: Report
by Michael Novinson
A $10 billion market cap would be more than triple SentinelOne’s $3 billion valuation in November and would be the highest valuation for a newly traded pure-play cybersecurity company.
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Asset Management Firm Axonius Raises $100M To Go Global
by Michael Novinson
The Series D funding round was led by private equity firm Stripes comes on the heels of Axonius doubling headcount during the pandemic as well as triple-digit annual recurring revenue growth in 2020
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Microsoft’s Brad Smith Drags AWS, Google Over SolarWinds Response
by Michael Novinson
‘There are other companies that... have not even alerted their customers or others that they were a victim of a SolarWinds-based attack. These are companies where their own infrastructure was used to launch the attack,’ says Microsoft’s Brad Smith.
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Zscaler Rides Channel Wave To Go After Smaller Enterprises
by Michael Novinson
VARs accounted for just over half of Zscaler’s revenue in the quarter ended Jan. 31, up from the high 40-percent range in previous quarters as the fast-growing cloud security vendor pushes downmarket.
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AWS: SolarWinds Hackers Used Our Elastic Compute Cloud
by Donna Goodison
‘The actors used EC2 just like they would use any server they could buy or use anywhere (on-premises or in the cloud). And, in fact, the actors did use several different service providers in this manner,’ AWS tells CRN.
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SolarWinds To Spend Up To $25M On Security Following Attack
by Michael Novinson
SolarWinds says the money will be put toward security initiatives as well as used to cover higher costs around both insurance and professional fees stemming from the massive cyberattack.
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5 Big Changes Coming To Palo Alto Networks’ Partner Program
by Michael Novinson
From unlocking cloud resale and SMB technical support to driving sales enablement and emerging technology specializations, here’s a rundown of key changes to the Palo Alto Networks NextWave Partner Program.
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