DATA SECURITY,PLATFORM SECURITY,SOFTWARE SECURITY
Balbix | November 17, 2022
Balbix, provider of the world's leading platform for cybersecurity posture automation, announced today the general availability of support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Security teams can now use Balbix to easily quantify, prioritize and mitigate risks in their Google Cloud environments. With this announcement, Balbix has also extended its Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) solution to support multi-cloud environments that span both GCP and Amazon Web Services.
The rapid move to the cloud has made IT environments more complex to manage and secure. As a result, security teams struggle to get a consolidated view of risk. Yet, 63 percent of organizations say they look at security posture in the cloud separately from on-premises, according to Cybersecurity Insiders' 2002 State of Security Posture Report.
"Our customers' environments can include over 1 million assets, spread across multiple clouds and their own facilities. Managing an attack surface this large is no longer a human-scale problem. "With Balbix's new support for GCP, our customers can use automation to manage cybersecurity posture across more of their environment."
Gaurav Banga, Founder and CEO of Balbix
Cyber Security Posture Automation for Google Cloud Platform
Balbix now provides support for popular Google Cloud services, including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Cluster & Deployments, Cloud Functions, Cloud Key Management Service (KMS), Pub/Sub and Secret Manager. As a result, Balbix customers with Google Cloud environments can use automation and advanced analytics to:
Get comprehensive, near real-time visibility of their Google Cloud assets.
Combine data from Google Cloud with their other IT and security tools to gain security and business context for their assets.
Discover misconfigurations – the most exploited attack vector for the cloud – as well as unpatched software vulnerabilities, weak credentials and trust issues.
Measure risk in terms of breach likelihood and business impact in order to prioritize remediation.
Calculate and report on cyber risk quantified in dollars (or other currencies) instead of risk scores
Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management for Multi-Cloud Environments
The addition of support for GCP extends Balbix's CAASM solution to multi-cloud environments. Security practitioners no longer need to use multiple tools or combine data manually from these tools in a custom spreadsheet to understand their security posture. They can see the relationships between assets, applications and users no matter where the assets are in the cloud or on-premises. They can also identify any gaps in coverage for security controls.
Balbix provides more than just visibility. Unlike other vendors, Balbix combines CAASM with Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (RBVM) and Cyber Risk Qualification (CRQ) solutions so security teams are able to immediately take action to reduce their cyber risk. They can continuously identify, prioritize and mitigate security issues as they emerge, while quantifying and tracking residual cyber risk in dollars. Daily cybersecurity decisions – operational as well as executive – can be made using a unified and up-to-date view of cyber risk.
"By adding support for Google Cloud, Balbix has broadened its risk model to be inclusive of multiple public cloud platforms and allowed organizations to better measure their overall cyber risk," said Ed Amoroso, Founder and CEO of research and advisory firm TAG Cyber. "Customers can leverage this unified risk model to quantify cyber risk by business unit, geography, site, asset type or business owner – and quickly remediate those risks."
The API-based Balbix Connector for Google Cloud Platform collects asset inventory and misconfiguration data and is available now. Visibility into other types of vulnerabilities is provided by optional Balbix sensors. These sensors also catalog the software bill of materials (SBOM) of applications running in GCP. Data collected by Balbix connectors and sensors is automatically deduplicated, correlated and inferenced to provide security teams with an accurate and unified view of risk.
About Balbix
Balbix enables businesses to reduce cyber risk by identifying and mitigating their riskiest cybersecurity issues faster. Our SaaS platform, the Balbix Security Cloud™, ingests data from businesses' security and IT tools so they can understand every aspect of their cybersecurity posture, build a unified cyber risk model and obtain actionable insights for risk reduction. With Balbix, businesses can automate inventory of their cloud and on-premise assets, conduct continuous risk-based vulnerability management and quantify cyber risk in dollars. Executives and operational teams can make cybersecurity decisions based on data not opinions.
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DATA SECURITY,PLATFORM SECURITY,SOFTWARE SECURITY
Blackpoint Cyber | November 11, 2022
Blackpoint Cyber, a leading technology-focused cybersecurity company, has released three product features this fall, as they look ahead to 2023.
“I am consistently blown away by the Blackpoint Cyber team. Our desire to improve the security posture for our partners is an ongoing journey as we continue to expand an ecosystem of products which address the needs of MSPs and customers in todays’ dynamic threat landscape. As someone with previous experience in the MSP space, it is refreshing to see how much our team really loves the channel and strives to regularly provide additional value by helping MSPs to secure themselves as well as their customers,” said Justin Weller, Director of Business Development at Blackpoint Cyber.
Blackpoint partners can stay ahead of cyberthreats with the following products:
Security Configuration Benchmarks for M365 – Vulnerability Mapping to CIS Benchmarks for Cloud Environments
CIS foundation benchmark for M365 and Azure provide prescriptive guidance for establishing a secure baseline configuration. Blackpoint has reviewed every control on your behalf and made recommendations on several to harden your customer environments. Now you can compare your security measures to Center of Internet Security Benchmarks directly in the Blackpoint portal. Assess your standing against these internationally recognized security standards and implement the recommended changes to reduce the attack surface in cloud tenants.
MDE Vulnerability Report—Security Visibility Unlocked
The capabilities of Blackpoint’s product bundle, Blackpoint Response, have grown. With Managed Defender for Endpoint, we've introduced internal vulnerability reporting to help you better assess your customers’ security posture, directly within the portal. The reports include recommendations for remediation and simplify the process to action them. Improvements based on the reports may pertain to expiring certificates, device exposure, or vulnerable software.
macOS Agent—The Power of MDR Within Your Mac
After many requests from their partner community, due to a lack of true Mac MDR, Blackpoint’s flagship MDR product, SNAP-Defense, is now available to monitor and respond to threats on Apple devices running macOS. As the macOS market share in business settings continues to grow, Blackpoint partners now have the capability to provide protection to those assets.
About Blackpoint Cyber
Blackpoint Cyber offers the only world-class, nation-state-grade cybersecurity ecosystem serving the MSP community. Using its own software and SOC, Blackpoint’s true 24/7 MDR service not only detects breaches earlier than any other solution on the market, but also provides an actual response rather than just an alert to keep your and your clients’ networks safe from widespread damage.
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DATA SECURITY, NETWORK THREAT DETECTION, PLATFORM SECURITY
IronYun | November 01, 2022
IronYun Inc., a leader in AI vision for security, safety and operational applications, today announced the integration of the award winning Vaidio AI Vision Platform with Genetec™ Security Center. Genetec customers can now add advanced, accurate, and field-proven AI video analytics to their existing infrastructure, to improve security, safety, and operational efficiency.
"Integrating Vaidio with Security Center makes it easy to add advanced artificial intelligence to existing infrastructure to increase functionality and make security operations even more effective and efficient."
Paul Sun, IronYun CEO
With the ability to analyze video from Security Center and to seamlessly feed alerts and notifications into the Security Center interface, the Vaidio AI Vision Platform continues to build on an award-winning foundation. Vaidio won the 2020 New Product Showcase for Commercial Monitoring and received two New Product Showcase Awards in 2021 for Mobile Applications and Video Analytics. Also in 2021, IronYun partnered with DP World and Verizon to study Vaidio AI Vision in port and warehouse safety and operational applications. In addition, IronYun was recognized as a Major Player in IDC's Worldwide Video Analytics MarketScape as "a good decision for enterprises that have extensive video surveillance capabilities and want to upgrade to advanced analytics that incorporate the latest technology."
The Vaidio AI Vision Platform is an open software platform that can be deployed on-prem on servers, on edge devices, and/or in the cloud. Vaidio orchestrates multiple next-generation AI video analytics engines to provide such functions as video search, intrusion detection, license plate recognition, face search and recognition, people and vehicle counting, vehicle make and model recognition, social health analytics, and many others. Vaidio works with any IP camera and integrates out of the box with Genetec Security Center.
Vaidio AI monitors real-time video streams with superhuman accuracy, and accelerates forensic video search of stored video. The platform offers the flexibility to purchase only needed analytics, with the option to run multiple analytics on a single camera, and to add more analytic functionality over time. Vaidio's optimized, next-generation AI vision algorithms maximize hardware resource efficiency, to effectively lower overall solution costs relative to competitive alternatives.
The latest Vaidio releases add new AI-enabled safety detection, privacy blurring and associated data and user management features, a fully featured parking management application, (the first 3rd party application developed on the Vaidio platform), Vaidio Data, a robust business intelligence engine, and Vaidio Command Center, for centralized management of complex, distributed, large scale environments.
About Vaidio
The Vaidio AI Vision Platform offers 30 AI -enabled next-generation video analytics functions for security, safety, access control and operational applications. Vaidio is an open platform that works with any IP camera, scales from 1 to 1,000s of cameras, and integrates with market leading VMSs for real-time, forensic and holistic situational awareness. The Vaidio Platform is differentiated by higher accuracy and greater resource efficiency across a vast array of advanced AI-enabled video analytics. Relative to competitive alternatives, Vaidio can reduce hardware requirements up to 80%, and false alerts up to 99.995% -- reducing both up front and long-term operating costs.
About IronYun
IronYun has evolved the artificial intelligence at the core of the Vaidio Platform to create a resource-efficient, open platform that is field-proven to maximize accuracy and performance across the industry's broadest array of analytics functions. We are NDAA approved, headquartered in Stamford, CT, and our Vaidio Platform is deployed across tens of thousands of cameras for government, healthcare, education, retail, transit and enterprise customers worldwide.
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DATA SECURITY,ENTERPRISE SECURITY,PLATFORM SECURITY
Laminar | November 30, 2022
Laminar, a leader in public cloud data security, today announced it is supporting the launch of Amazon Security Lake from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon Security Lake automatically centralizes an organization’s security data from cloud, on-premises, and custom sources into a customer owned purpose-built data lake. With support for the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) standard, Amazon Security Lake reduces the complexity and costs for customers to make their security solutions data accessible to address a variety of security use cases such as threat detection, investigation, and incident response.
“All cybersecurity in the end is about protecting data and all cybersecurity is more effective and efficient with data-context. “Laminar is proud to be a launch partner for Amazon Security Lake, adding data-context to security events for better risk models, effective investigations and efficient remediation.”
Amit Shaked, co-founder and CEO, Laminar
Amazon Security Lake helps organizations aggregate, manage, and derive value from log and event data on the cloud and on-premises to give security teams greater visibility across their organizations. With Amazon Security Lake, customers can use the security and analytics solutions of their choice to simply query that data in place or ingest the OCSF-compliant data to address further use cases. Amazon Security Lake helps customers optimize security log data retention by optimizing the partitioning of data to improve performance and reduce costs. Now, analysts and engineers can easily build and use a centralized security data lake to improve the protection of workloads, applications, and data.
Laminar is a Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) leader that delivers autonomous, agentless, and continuous data security for everything that you build and run on the cloud. Laminar provides autonomous discovery and classification for all data across AWS and hybrid cloud environments into a cloud data catalog, prioritization of data assets by our proprietary risk model, and an agentless and asynchronous approach to DSPM to reduce the exposure surface without impacting performance.
“Data is every enterprise’s most valuable asset, which makes protecting it a critical capability for all cybersecurity solutions,” said Rod Wallace, General Manager for Amazon Security Lake. “Amazon Security Lake enables security teams to optimize security log data collection and retention by optimizing the partitioning of data to improve performance and reduce costs. With the Laminar integration, analysts and engineers can store their data in the OCSF format for further analytics to improve the protection of workloads, applications, and data.”
About Laminar
Laminar’s Cloud Data Security Platform protects data for everything you build and run in the cloud across cloud providers and cloud data warehouses. The platform autonomously and continuously discovers and classifies new datastores for complete visibility, prioritizes risk based on sensitivity and data risk posture, secures data by remediating weak controls and actively monitors for egress and access anomalies. Designed for the multi cloud, the architecture takes an API-only approach, without any agents, and without sensitive data ever leaving your environment. Founded in 2020 by a brilliant team of award winning Israeli red team experts, Laminar is proudly backed by Insight Partners, Tiger Global, Salesforce Ventures, TLV Partners, and SentinelOne.
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