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Infosecurity | January 21, 2020

An American businessman who co-founded a cybersecurity company has admitted to hiring criminals to carry out cyber-attacks against others. Tucker Preston, of Macon, Georgia, confessed to having paid threat actors to launch a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks between December 2015 and February 2016. DDoS attacks prevent a website from functioning by bombarding it with so much junk internet traffic that it can't handle visits from genuine users. In a New Jersey court last ...

DATA SECURITY

HITRUST | December 18, 2021

HITRUST today announced it is addressing the need for a continuously-relevant cybersecurity assessment that aligns and incorporates best practices and leverages the latest threat intelligence to maintain applicability with information security risks and emerging cyber threats, such as ransomware. The design and selection of the controls for the HITRUST Implemented 1-year (i1) Assessment puts it in a new class of information security assessment that is threat-adaptive – designed to maintain...

DATA SECURITY, ENTERPRISE IDENTITY, SOFTWARE SECURITY

SynSaber | October 21, 2022

SynSaber, an early-stage ICS/OT cybersecurity and asset monitoring company, today announced the addition of a new Dynamic Pipeline feature to the company's platform, providing customers with improved scalability and flexibility. Building upon the product launched in February 2022, this update includes a comprehensive set of features and capabilities to collect, analyze, and curate data at the OT edge. SynSaber was purpose-built to bring edge visibility to industrial networks (...

DATA SECURITY

Field Effect | October 29, 2021

Field Effect, a global cyber security company specializing in intelligence-grade protection for small and medium organizations, today announced a new partnership with RS22, a UK-based IT security reseller and managed service provider. With up to 65% of large and medium sized UK companies affected by data breaches in the past 12 months, the partnership will enable best-in-class cyber security protection for RS22 customers, helping them defend and stay ahead of business-disrupting cyber attacks. Read More