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NEW TECH: Exabeam retools SIEMs; applies credit card fraud detection tactics to network logs

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Launched in 2013 by Nir Polak, a former top exec at web application firewall vendor Imperva, Exabeam in just half a decade has raised an eye-popping $115 million in venture capital, grown to almost 350 employees and reaped over 100 percent revenue growth in each of the last three years. Here are a few takeaways: Very Big Data.

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SHARING INTEL: Here’s why it has become so vital to prioritize the security-proofing of APIs

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The pursuit of agile software has companies, large and small,at consumed in rapidly developing and tossing into service software meant to function far beyond the perimeters of legacy company networks, in the wide-open Internet cloud. Salt Security is taking a big data and automation approach to this monumental challenge, Isbitski told me.

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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

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It foreshadowed how encryption would come to be used as a foundation for Internet commerce – by companies and criminals. It was unleashed on the internet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and began infecting computers at various universities. This was considered a significant win for the U.S. The Creeper Virus (1971).

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Healthcare Cyberattacks Lead to Increased Mortality, Lower Patient Care: Ponemon Study

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Ponemon chairman and founder Larry Ponemon said in a statement that “Most of the IT and security professionals regard their organizations as vulnerable to these attacks,” and that growing adoption of technologies such as cloud, mobile , big data , and the Internet of Things (IoT) are adding to that risk.

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

Here are my takeaways: Skills deficit Over the past 20 years, enterprises have shelled out small fortunes in order to stock their SOCs with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. But that hasn’t been enough. Talk more soon.

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MY TAKE: Six-figure GDPR privacy fines reinforce business case for advanced SIEM, UEBA tools

The Last Watchdog

Different flavors of cloud architectures, sprawling IoT systems and the coming wide deployment of 5G networks add up to not just Big Data, but Very Big Data. Launched in 2013 by Nir Polak , a former top exec at web application firewall vendor Imperva, Exabeam appears to be on the right track. Talk more soon.

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NEW TECH: Human operatives maintain personas, prowl the Dark Net for intel to help companies

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Our growing fixation with leveraging artificial intelligence to extract profits from Big Data – for both constructive and criminal ends—is the order of the day. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW Talk more soon.