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DATA SECURITY

Veza | June 27, 2022

Veza, the data security platform built on the power of authorization, announced an investment in their Series C funding round from Blackstone Innovations Investments, along with participation from previous investors. To date, Veza has raised a total of $110 million from top-tier investors including Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, GV, Norwest Venture Partners, True Ventures, and others. Blackstone has also selected Veza to help modernize its data security and access governance. Read More

Bugcrowd | August 20, 2020

Bugcrowd, the #1 crowdsourced security company, today announced the launch of Bugcrowd M&A Assessment (Mergers and Acquisitions), a pre-packaged bundle of security tests that combine remotely-deployed penetration testing with the advanced asset discovery, alerting, attribution, prioritization, and management capabilities of the Bugcrowd platform. Organizations can initiate these tests in 72 hours or less—record time for the industry—and access results in real-time, expediting an ...

CBC | March 08, 2020

Canada's cyber intelligence agency says it's working on what it calls the "Holy Grail" of data encryption to protect government information as the number of reports of privacy breaches, malware attempts and ransomware hits continues to grow. Encryption mainly works in transit — which protects data when it's being sent — or "at rest", which guards information when it's being stored. But in order to be processed and understood, that information needs...

Infosecurity | February 21, 2020

A proposed class-action lawsuit has been filed against New Jersey's largest hospital health network over a ransomware attack that happened in December. Threat actors infected the computer systems of Hackensack Meridian Health, causing a system-wide shutdown on December 2. The attack disrupted services at 17 urgent care centers, hospitals, and nursing homes operated by the network. News of the attack was leaked to the media on December 5. Eight days later, Hackensack confirmed that it h...