Unified identity security company Silverfort Inc. today announced its “identity-first” incident response solution, which aims to accelerate attack remediation time by complementing existing incident response tools and optimizing IR processes. The new service is pitched as “flipping the script” on conventional IR playbooks by enabling teams to start their investigation by discovering and locking down ...

Cloud permission management startup Apono Inc. revealed today that it has raised $15.5 million in new funding to accelerate product development and advance its mission of providing artificial intelligence-driven secure solutions that help organizations manage distributed cloud environments. Founded in 2022, Apono offers a Cloud Privilege Access platform that gives companies just-in-time and just enough ...

Connected vehicles continue to increase in popularity with features such as remote access and start, but what if a hacker could access those same features to gain access to a car? A group of security researchers have revealed that it was able to gain access via critical flaws on Korean car maker Kia Corp.’s dealer ...

BlackBerry Ltd. today logged earnings and revenue beats in its fiscal second quarter. For the quarter that ended on Aug. 31, BlackBerry reported it broke even, up from a loss of four cents per share in the quarter of the previous year, on revenue of $145 million, up 10% year-over-year. Analysts had been expecting a ...

Code reuse platform startup Crowdbotics Inc. today unveiled new capabilities for its artificial intelligence-powered application development platform that are aimed at addressing challenges in creating applications. The new capabilities have been designed to address issues such as the fact that 70% of development project failures are the result of poor or missing requirements, coupled with inconsistent architecture ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has announced a crackdown on companies allegedly making deceptive artificial intelligence claims and schemes, including robot lawyer startup DoNotPay Inc. The crackdown, named “Operation AI Comply,” has seen the FTC take action against multiple companies that are alleged to have relied on AI as a way to supercharge deceptive or ...

Scalable application security company DefectDojo Inc. announced today that it has raised $7 million in new funding to fuel innovation, product development and market expansion. Founded in 2015 and based on the open-source project of the same name, DefectDojo offers a security automation and vulnerability management platform designed to help organizations manage security findings across ...

Cloud-native security and networking provider Infoblox Inc. today unveiled its Universal DDI Product Suite, a new service that offers a comprehensive domain name system, dynamic host configuration protocol and IP address management, asset visibility and proactive security. The Universal DDI Product Suite breaks down silos across NetOps, CloudOps and SecOps while offering the flexibility of adaptive deployment models, ...

A new report out today from phishing defense company Cofense Inc. details a new phishing scam that uses TikTok URLs to redirect users to malicious sites, in particular targeting Microsoft 365 credentials. Phishing campaigns using social media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook are not new and have a similar theme — deceiving users into clicking ...

Digital adoption platform and analytics provider Whatfix Pvt. Ltd. announced today that it has raised $125 million in a new late-stage funding to enhance its product suite through organic growth and strategic acquisitions and to expand its market presence globally. Founded in 2014, Whatfix offers a digital adoption platform that helps organizations improve software adoption ...