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Behind the scenes with the head of Kaspersky’s GReAT

SecureList

Costin Raiu has been with Kaspersky since 2000, initially as the Chief Security Expert overseeing research efforts in the EEMEA region. That’s how I wrote my first antivirus, and from that moment on, more and more people asked if I could write them a custom solution for their problems. What makes research successful?

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Top-Tier Russian Hacking group Fxmsp claims hack of major AntiVirus Companies

Security Affairs

A Russian hacking group Fxmsp is offering for sale the access to the networks of at least three antivirus companies in the US and source code of their software. Buyers can also pay at least $300,000 acquiring both, the price depends on the antivirus company. ” reported Advanced Intelligence. ” continues AdvIntel.

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FortiSASE SASE Solution Review

eSecurity Planet

Founded in 2000, Fortinet began producing physical firewall appliances and soon expanded into other security categories. Who is Fortinet? More than two decades later, the company is a cybersecurity market leader with more than $5 billion in annual revenue. However, the bandwidth is pooled for the entire organization. Mbps of bandwidth.

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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Sophos delivers endpoint protection harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) as well as firewalls and network and cloud security products. This includes antivirus, identity protection, SIEM (where Gartner names it a Leader), endpoint protection (graded a Visionary by Gartner) and secure web gateways (Gartner Challenger).