Tag: security
Abnormal Security announced a global strategic alliance with Microsoft to deliver comprehensive security solutions to enterprises. Starting today, customers can purchase Abnormal’s security offering directly from Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace. Until today, enterprises struggled with advanced cyberattacks that would bypass security gateways that disable native controls. Abnormal Security and Microsoft worked together to ensure that the Abnormal platform […]
Now that we’ve got rid of the preposterous Privacy Shield, companies all over Europe are looking for EU – or at least EEA – alternatives to their tech stack. Though final words have not yet been spoken, European companies are better safe than sorry for moving their data away from the US. If you’re unfamiliar […]
According to statistics, 97% of all business communication goes via email. Even though this number was expected to drop drastically with the rise of tools like Skype, Slack, and most recently, Zoom, they still leave a lot to be desired when it comes to the type of information the standardized email format relays as well […]
Movable Ink, a leading software company powering creative personalization for the world’s largest brands, today announced it has raised $30 million in a Series C funding round with capital from Contour Venture Partners, Intel Capital and Silver Lake Waterman. Movable Ink has raised $39 million in funding to date. Since its founding in 2010, Movable [...]
IRONSCALES, a pioneer of self-learning email security, recently announced it has closed an $8 million Series B extension led by Chicago-based venture and growth capital firm Jump Capital. "Phishing remains one of the largest attack vectors for cybercriminals. Even though enterprises are investing heavily in cloud-native security infrastructure, they still rely on legacy secure email [...]
Software permits users to create customizable and scalable mock phishing campaigns. Schneider Downs, one of the America's 60 largest accounting and business consulting firms, announced the release of redlure, an open-source phishing platform built with the needs of red teamers and penetration testers top of mind. redlure provides users with the ability to self-generate phishing [...]
ResearchAndMarkets.com published a new article on the cypersecurity industry - "Emotet Returns After 5 Month Absence" Emotet, one of the world's most destructive cybercrime operations has returned from a five month absence. On 17th July, it was reported that the Emotet botnet sent approximately 250,000 spam messages mostly to users based in the United Kingdom [...]
CISO organizations face unrelenting fraudsters: maximum wire transfer ploy equaled US$1.6M at end of Q2 2020, up nearly 134% from Q4 2019 FOSTER CITY, Calif. and LONDON, Aug. 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Agari, the market share leader in phishing defense solutions for the enterprise, announced today insights from its latest H2 2020 Email Fraud and Identity [...]
Zero-trust sender identity company now has more DMARC clients under management, more clients at enforcement, and is the fastest-growing DMARC vendor according to their study of publicly available DNS records. Valimail, a provider of zero-trust, identity-based anti-phishing solutions, announced that as of June 1 it now manages DMARC for more organizations — with more domains [...]
New report looks at how scammers are getting access to email accounts, how they're using compromised accounts, and how businesses can protect against these attacks Highlights: Attackers have created a specialized economy using brand impersonation, social engineering, and spear phishing to hijack email accounts and monetize them. In more than one-third of compromised accounts, attackers [...]
Impersonations have become pervasive, and are by far the most prevalent type of email-based attack ending up in business's inboxes. This is according to the third annual Email Security Challenges, Trends and Benchmarks survey report, released today by GreatHorn. Emphasizing the trend, nearly half of respondents (48.7%) reported seeing impersonations of people such as colleagues, [...]
The option for owning or at least controlling your own email infrastructure for your marketing efforts is increasingly viable looking at. In the early days of my career for a long period of time the vast majority of my consulting was spent designing, implementing, managing and supporting in-house email systems. However that was over twenty […]