Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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Orca Security deepens integration with AWS through Amazon Bedrock support

Cloud cybersecurity startup Orca Security Ltd. today announced an enhancement of its partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. by becoming one of the first cloud security companies to integrate with Amazon Bedrock, Amazon’s managed cloud service for developers to build and scale generative artificial intelligence applications. The integration between Orca Security and Amazon Bedrock has been designed ...

Action1 unveils enhanced patch management platform to accelerate remediation workflows

Risk-based patch management startup Action1 Corp. today announced the latest release of its patch management platform that can be used to enable automated workflows for reducing mean time to remediate. The new release has been designed to assist global enterprises that are struggling with complex environments, including the need to organize endpoints manually. The release offers reduced ...

Backslash Security announces availability of its application security posture management platform

Israeli application security startup Backslash Security Inc. today announced the general availability of its application security posture management platform for enterprise AppSec and product security teams. The solution weaves ASPM capabilities with core AppSec functions, including software composition analysis, static application security testing, software bill of materials, vulnerability exploitability exchange and secrets detection in a single, visualized ...

Cybersecurity practitioners fret after SEC sues SolarWinds and its CISO

Updated with comment from SolarWinds Cybersecurity practitioners are expressing concern after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued both SolarWinds Corp. and its Chief Information Security Officer Timothy Brown for fraud relating to the hack of the company first disclosed in December 2020. The hack, which was attributed to Russian government-linked hackers, saw the insertion ...

Commvault surprises with earnings and revenue beats

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. pleasantly surprised investors with its fiscal third-quarter earnings today, reporting beats in revenue and earnings. For the quarter that ended Sept. 30, Commvault reported adjusted earnings per share of 70 cents, up from 10 cents in the same quarter of last year, on revenue of $201 million, up 7% year-over-year. Analysts ...

UserTesting unveils enhanced features for its Human Insight Platform

Human insights platform company UserTesting Inc. today announced new enhancements and capabilities to its platform designed to simplify the process of reaching niche, hard-to-find audiences. The new announcements include product integrations with Canva Pty. Ltd. and FullStory Inc. to help organizations maximize the value of human insight and a new Insights Services offering that allows organizations to ...

LogRhythm teams up with D3 Security for enhanced incident response automation

Security intelligence firm LogRhythm Inc. today announced a new partnership with security orchestration, automation and response or SOAR company D3 Security Management Systems Inc. to automate threat management and incident response in LogRhythm’s Axon SEIM. The partnership brings together LogRhythm Axon SIEM, or security information and event management, and D3 Smart SOAR’s incident enrichment and response capabilities ...

Apple announces new MacBook Pros and M3 chips at ‘Scary Fast’ event

Apple Inc. announced a new range of MacBook Pros this evening at an event called “Scary Fast,” along with debuting new three-nanometer-based M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max chips. The new chips, the latest in Apple’s in-house designed chips, offer up to 80% faster performance than Apple’s M1 chips. The new Arm-based systems-on-a-chip are the first ...

Cyber consolidation: SailPoint closes Osirium acquisition as Proofpoint to buy Tessian

In an increasing sign of consolidation in the cybersecurity market, SailPoint Technologies Inc. today closed its acquisition of endpoint management, access management and process automation company Osirium Ltd. and Proofpoint announced a deal to acquire enterprise security firm Tessian Ltd. Sailpoint’s acquisition of Osirium was announced in August, with Sailpoint reportedly paying $8.3 million for the ...

Immuta’s new product aims to streamline data management and regulatory compliance

Data security startup Immuta Inc. today announced a new product for automated tagging and classification on supported cloud data platforms. Called Immuta Discover, the new product enables data teams to establish and maintain highly accurate metadata for data access control, monitoring and regulatory compliance. The product automatically and continuously discovers structured data in cloud data platforms and also leverages ...