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Bitglass Accuses Ex-Exec Of Taking Trade Secrets To Netskope
by Michael Novinson
Bitglass claims former Vice President of Worldwide Solutions Engineering Joseph Green took confidential information to Netskope, which was then used internally and in competitive bids to gain an unfair edge.
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Mimecast Acquires Email Security Startup MessageControl
by Michael Novinson
MessageControl will provide customers using productivity apps such as Microsoft 365 with stronger protection against advanced phishing and impersonation attacks, according to Mimecast.
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Mandiant MDR Service No Longer Exclusive To FireEye Products
by Michael Novinson
‘You’re not going to own every damn account on endpoint, period, and the demand for our expertise and a second set of eyes to look at every single alert is something almost everybody I’ve talked to wants,’ says FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia.
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Check Point CEO Gil Shwed: ‘We Can Do Much More With The Channel’
by Michael Novinson
‘I can’t say that I have today a huge drive of business that’s new from the channel yet, but I hope that it will come,’ Check Point founder and CEO Gil Shwed tells investors Wednesday.
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Fortinet Buys Cloud Security Startup Opaq To Protect Networks
by Michael Novinson
‘Adding Opaq allows us to be more flexible in terms of where and how customers want to apply security,’ says Fortinet’s John Maddison. ‘We already had the most complete SASE offering, but this gives us more flexible consumption options.’
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New Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi To Expand Reach Of OT Security
by Michael Novinson
Yaniv Vardi’s appointment comes just nine months after industrial cybersecurity vendor Claroty named Thorsten Freitag as its new CEO, who has since left the company.
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Twitter Hack: No Evidence Account Passwords Were Accessed
by Michael Novinson
Twitter doesn’t currently believe that resetting account passwords is necessary following Wednesday’s massive breach that gave hackers control over high-profile accounts.
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BlueVoyant Raises $68 Million To Boost Security Services Tools
by Michael Novinson
The funding was led by Temasek, and will allow BlueVoyant to increase the number of technical, sales and marketing resources supporting its managed security, third-party cyber risk, and cyber defense services.
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Twitter Employees Hacked In ‘Coordinated Social Engineering Attack’
by Michael Novinson
Twitter said Wednesday that hackers breached employees with access to internal systems and tools, and then used that access to take control of high-profile accounts and tweet on their behalf.
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Twitter Hack Snares Accounts Of Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Apple
by Kyle Alspach
Other prominent accounts reportedly affected by hacks included Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Warren Buffett.
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ALTR Looks To Diversify Partner Base With New Program
by Michael Novinson
ALTR says its new program will allow cloud architects, application development partners and AWS-focused SIs to get involved in deals as a consultant without having to execute the transactions themselves.
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Advent Acquisition Of Forescout Back On, Price Cut By $4 Per Share
by Michael Novinson
The $29-per-share deal comes just five days before the scheduled start of a Delaware Court of Chancery trial over Advent International’s attempt to walk away from the Forescout acquisition back in May.
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Acronis Buys Endpoint Data Loss Prevention Vendor DeviceLock
by Michael Novinson
DeviceLock will help customers identify and block abnormal behaviors such as threat actors attempting to access sensitive documents or employees looking to steal data that isn’t relevant to their job responsibilities, according to Acronis’ Gaidar Magdanurov.
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Cybersecurity Firm Auth0 Raises $120M In Salesforce-Led Funding
by Michael Novinson
The Series F funding raises Auth0’s valuation to $1.92 billion, and will allow the identity security vendor to establish a direct presence in emerging markets like India, Southeast Asia, the Nordics and Central Europe, according to CEO Eugenio Pace.
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