DATA SECURITY, SOFTWARE SECURITY, WEB SECURITY TOOLS
Interos Inc | March 10, 2023
On March 9, 2023, Interos, one of the leading operational resilience companies creating the world's strongest, safest, and most secure supply chains, announced the introduction of its upgraded cyber risk factor, a part of its i-ScoreTM measurement of operational resilience.
The Interos i-Score is the first of its kind resilience score that assesses the health of extended supply chains against multiple risk factors, such as restriction, financial, geopolitical, operations/catastrophe, ESG, and cyber.
The i-Score update includes an innovative cyber behavior model to detect potentially harmful cyber activity irrespective of public disclosure, commercial cyber ratings, threat assessment (Mitre ATT&CK®), vulnerability information (CVEs), regulatory compliance, cyber events, and operating country issues into a single score.
This advancement directs cyber risk and procurement managers to their multi-tiered vendors most exposed to ransomware, breaches, data leakage, and other cyber-attacks carried out by malicious attackers who target suppliers concealed in the extended global supply chain. Interos's 2022 Resilience study of 1,500 cybersecurity and procurement leaders found that cyber incidents cause supply chain disruptions that cost businesses $37M each year.
Andrea Little Limbago, SVP, Research & Analysis, Interos, said, "This is another crucial step forward in helping organizations achieve operational resilience." She further mentioned, "We've added new, proprietary models that integrate and assess data on cloud-based risk exposure, evaluate anomalous cyber behavior, measure regulatory compliance risks and more. It's designed to deliver better and faster information to CPOs partnering with CISOs — who are increasingly being held accountable for collective cyber resilience — to respond to more frequent and severe supply chain cyberattacks, with enhanced monitoring of vendors and third-party service providers."
(Source – Cision PR Newswire)
About Interos Inc
Founded in 2005, Interos is one of the leading operational resilience companies. The company's first-of-its-kind scoring and relationship discovery technologies automate evaluation, detection, and response to risks. As the only operational resilience platform in the world, it protects customers from unethical labor, regulatory violations, cyberattacks, disasters, bankruptcy, and other supplier vulnerabilities. Interos is based in Washington, DC, and has clients all over the world, including NASA, the U.S. Department of Defense, and a number of Global Fortune 500 companies.
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DATA SECURITY, ENTERPRISE SECURITY, SOFTWARE SECURITY
Privacera | February 23, 2023
On February 22, 2023, Privacera, a leading SaaS-based data security and access governance platform, announced its integration with Databricks Unity Catalog. Through this integration, users of both Privacera and Databricks can now facilitate data discovery and access across the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, including seamless migration of existing Privacera policies.
Privacera increases the ability of its users to provide a holistic unified data security platform, protecting all data assets, including modern cloud-native data warehouses, on-premise legacy data sources, modern data lakehouses, and data mesh architectures.
Users can trial these capabilities and spin up Privacera and Databricks together through pre-configured integration settings on Databricks Partner Connect, simplifying the process of testing a secure, well-governed data lakehouse with minimal administrative effort.
The Unity Catalog integration supports table/view level access control, dynamic column-level data masking, dynamic row-level filtering, attribute-based access control, tag-based policies, and file/object level access control.
Privacera enables enterprise data teams to protect sensitive data and promote privacy by securely managing data access policies across multiple on-premise, hybrid, and multi-cloud data sources, automating manual governance processes to reduce time to insights. It is the only open-standards-based data security governance firm, natively integrating with the most popular data and analytic sources. Its scalable and data query performance architecture has made it the solution of choice for many Fortune 500 organizations worldwide.
Privacera's CEO Balaji Ganesan commented, "Securing and governing the modern data lakehouse is a non-trivial challenge for its users and that's why we've invested in extending our modern data security governance capabilities to the Unity Catalog-powered data lakehouse." He further emphasized, "Our users can seamlessly apply the security and governance controls to Unity Catalog and other sources with ease and at scale, and through a proven, open security standard."
About Privacera
Privacera is a SaaS-based data security and access governance platform established in 2016 by the founders of Apache Ranger™ and Apache Atlas™. The platform enables data and security teams to simplify data security, access and privacy for data applications and analytical workloads. Its centralized data access governance platform extends beyond traditional Big Data environments to cloud-native services and analytics platforms such as AWS, GCP, Azure and Databricks and enables data democratization without compromising on compliance with data access control, data discovery, and encryption. In addition, the platform ensures compliance with regulations such as GDPR, LGPD, CCPA, and HIPAA while maximizing usability for data science and analytics teams.
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PLATFORM SECURITY, SOFTWARE SECURITY, WEB SECURITY TOOLS
ThreatLocker | February 07, 2023
ThreatLocker®, an endpoint security technology pioneer, recently announced the launch of ThreatLocker Ops, a community-driven threat detection tool, at Zero Trust World. This new product helps administrators detect attempted intrusions or system vulnerabilities.
Ops is a policy-driven system that determines good or bad behavior based on ThreatLocker agent data. This information may be used to notify IT administrators of attempted attacks or to initiate measures to harden an environment utilizing other platform components. The Ops platform also integrates with ThreatLocker's new community, which allows similar firms to publish policies that are pertinent to their business, allowing for information exchange and a more comprehensive set of alerts.
With tighter security controls, reduced agent fatigue, and minimal overhead on personal computers, Ops reduces dependency on other IT resources.
ThreatLocker further announced the incorporation of the Third Wall plug-in into its zero trust platform. This announcement followed Third Wall's acquisition last November.
The sophisticated configurations manager for Windows consists of 58 lockdown policies and emergency actions to widen the scope of ransomware prevention and assure user compliance with HIPAA, PCI, NIST, and GDPR.
The latest additions to ThreatLocker comply with several government regulations on the use of Zero Trust strategies to counter current threats.
ThreatLocker will offer its new products to existing and new partners. Currently, it secures over a million endpoints worldwide.
About ThreatLocker
Founded in 2017, ThreatLocker is an endpoint security technology pioneer driving the cybersecurity industry toward a more secure way of preventing unexpected application vulnerabilities. Its ThreatLocker Control Suite integrates solutions for RingfencingTM, Application Whitelisting, Storage Control, and Elevation Control to simplify security. ThreatLocker’s powerful suite of security tools are designed to provide everyone from enterprises to government agencies to academic institutions complete control over which apps operate on their networks. The company is headquartered in Maitland, Florida and has been recognized as one of the most efficient cyber security solutions.
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