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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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FireMon Founder Jody Brazil Returns As CEO After Acquisition
by Michael Novinson
‘This is more than just acquiring the [DisruptOps] technology. This is about fundamentally shifting FireMon from the historic on-prem technology management platform that we’ve been into the age of the cloud,’ says Jody Brazil.
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Okta Quietly Buys Startup atSpoke to Fuel Identity Governance
by Michael Novinson
Okta CEO Todd McKinnon says atSpoke’s access request workflow capability will help augment the broader strategy and vision around the company’s identity governance offering, which is set to debut early next year.
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Accenture Clients Breached By LockBit Ransomware Gang: Report
by Michael Novinson
The LockBit ransomware gang said it has taken advantage of credentials accessed during the Accenture cyberattack to compromise an airport that was using Accenture software and encrypt its systems. Accenture denies LockBit‘s claims.
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Ransomware Causing Security Insurance Costs To Spike: MSPs
by Mark Haranas
“I got my renewal the other day from our insurance company, but it wasn’t even a renewal, it was basically the first shot over the bow that said, ‘Hey, by the way, I know you haven’t had an incident this year, but your rates are going to go up 15 percent because you work in technology,’” says Dawn Sizer, CEO of 3rd Element Consulting.
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