Security + Compliance

Cybersecurity platform LogPoint secures $10 million in funding

LogPoint positioned to accelerate growth with advanced analytics and machine learning driving the next generation of SIEM.

Worldwide IT spending forecast to grow 1.4 per cent in 2017

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.5 trillion in 2017, a 1.4 per cent increase from 2016, according to Gartner, Inc. This growth rate is down from the previous quarter's forecast of 2.7 per cent, due in part to the rising US dollar.

Cyberlytic makes AI-based web security tech developed for UK Government available to SMEs

UK start-up Cyberlytic is making innovative web application security technology, originally developed for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and now available to SMEs to help them counter increasingly complex cyber threats. Cyberlytic’s new ‘Cyber Threat Profiler’ uses artificial intelligence (AI) techniques, including machine learning, to detect and prevent web attacks targeting websites, in a way that is both faster and more sophisticated than ever before.

Protecting networks against the widest range of external and internal DNS-based attacks

Infoblox says that its flagship product for infrastructure protection, Advanced Domain Name System (DNS) Protection, is now available as a virtual offering with software subscription pricing.

McAfee Labs report highlights critical challenges to threat intelligent sharing

McAfee catalogues 176 new cyber threats every minute, almost three every second; ransomware grows 88%, mobile malware grows 99% in 2016.

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