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FBI Delayed Helping Kaseya Ransomware Victims For Weeks: Report
by Michael Novinson
The FBI secretly obtained the decryption key by accessing REvil’s servers, but held onto it for almost three weeks because it was planning to carry out an operation to disrupt REvil and didn’t want to tip them off.
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F5 To Acquire Cloud Security Vendor Threat Stack For $68M
by Michael Novinson
F5 said its application insights and controls combined with Threat Stack’s proactive risk identification and threat detection will allow applications to detect and mitigate threats in real time.
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Saviynt Raises $130M To Drive R&D, Geographic Expansion
by Michael Novinson
‘It is important to also look at how identity is changing. For identity to get deeper into cybersecurity, we need it to be much more agile, much more real-time, and much more intelligent,’ says Saviynt CEO Amit Saha.
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ForgeRock CEO Rosch On IPO: ‘This Is A Really Exciting Market’
by Michael Novinson
‘When you go public, it demonstrates that you‘re playing with the big boys and you’ve got a certain level of credibility. And I think we’ll be able to attract even better talent,’ ForgeRock CEO Fran Rosch tells CRN.
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SEC’s SolarWinds Probe Could Expose Undisclosed Security Breaches: Report
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We don’t live in a world where you can’t report. If I as an MSP am breached, I report it right away so that if there are issues, customers can deal with them,’ says Ed Tatsch, president of ETS Networks.
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Radware Eyes Going Private Via Sale To Siris Capital: Report
by Michael Novinson
Publicly-traded Radware has a valuation of $1.67 billion and competes with companies like Akamai, Cloudflare, and F5 to protect corporate websites from targeted denial-of-service attacks from hackers.
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Tenable To Buy Cloud Security Startup Accurics For $160M
by Michael Novinson
‘We can ensure that what is deployed is secure by default and that any fixes are a simple merge request rather than a patch or operational afterthought,’ says Tenable Co-Founder and CTO Renaud Deraison.
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BitSight Buys Startup VisibleRisk, Gets $250M From Moody’s
by Michael Novinson
‘We believe Moody’s decision to partner with BitSight is a clear validation of our ratings and data, our successful business model, and our trustworthiness as a business partner,’ says BitSight CEO Steve Harvey.
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JumpCloud Raises $159M To Aid User And Device Management
by Michael Novinson
‘There’s such a big opportunity for our channel partners to reorient from a device-centric model to a user-centric model,’ says CEO Rajat Bhargava as the directory platform vendor notches a $2.56 billion valuation.
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REvil: We Accidentally Leaked Kaseya Universal Decryptor Key
by Michael Novinson
‘One of our coders misclicked and generated a universal key, and issued the universal decryptor key along with a bunch of keys for one machine. That’s how we sh*t ourselves,’ says REvil on a Russian-language forum.
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Zscaler CEO: ‘We Are Barely Scratching The Surface Of The Federal Market’
by Michael Novinson
Zscaler added 20 new U.S. government customers last quarter, and has been tapped to run a pilot program driving zero trust implementation in support of the Biden administration’s cybersecurity executive order.
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Microsoft Finds Attack Attempts With Office Files
by Wade Tyler Millward
“This can be mitigated really easily with user training,” Kelly Yeh, president of Chantilly, Va.-based Microsoft partner Phalanx Technology Group, tells CRN. “We call it layer eight problems -- the layer between the chair and the desk is the biggest problem that IT guys always have.”
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Snyk Raises $530M On $8.5B Valuation To Protect Applications
by Michael Novinson
The Series F funding should position Snyk to go public in late 2022 or early 2023, with the company using the proceeds to invest aggressively in its product and engineering organization, says CEO Peter McKay.
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SentinelOne CEO: Customers Want A Prevention-First Approach
by Michael Novinson
‘They‘re feeling more and more frustrated by this need to constantly put out fires. And if you take a more prevention-first approach, you can actually stop these fires from even happening,’ says SentinelOne CEO Tomer Weingarten.
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