Security Management and Integration

DATA SECURITY

Covail | December 23, 2021

Covail, a Columbus-based cybersecurity and digital optimization firm founded by Central Ohio’s largest companies, is being acquired by a leading Managed Detection and Response firm. Covail announced today that it has agreed to be acquired by cybersecurity and managed detection and response (MDR) services provider GoSecure. The transaction is estimated to close in December 2021. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. “Since our...

Security Magazine | January 22, 2020

Led by internet privacy researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, vpnMentor’s research team discovered a data breach in THSuite, a point-of-sale system in the cannabis industry. The research team identified an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket owned by THSuite that exposed 85,000 files of sensitive data from multiple marijuana dispensaries around the U.S. and their customers. The leaked data included scanned government and employee IDs, exposing personally identifiable information (PII) for over 30,0...

PLATFORM SECURITY

CrowdSec | July 13, 2022

CrowdSec, the French security startup enhancing the open-source and collaborative cyber security solution landscape, has today announced that its IP reputation tool has expanded its features in a paid version for enterprises. While CrowdSec's Community product remains available for individual users for free, the new Professional and Enterprise features will allow organizations to maximize scarce IT resources by crowdsourcing a higher volume of cyber threat intelligence (CTI). ...

prnewswire | October 06, 2020

BitSight, the Standard in Security Ratings, and Solactive, a German index engineering firm, today released new research demonstrating that a company's cybersecurity performance is an indicator of business performance. Analysis shows that indices composed of well-performing BitSight-rated companies outperform their respective benchmarks by 1% to 2% annually. For certain sectors, such as U.S. Technology, well-rated companies outperform the benchmark by 7% per year. The findings are...