Amazon Web Services Inc. customers will be required to use multifactor authentication to log into their AWS Management Console starting i mid-2024 in a move designed to strengthen the security posture of AWS. The announcement today was made by Steve Schmidt, vice president of security engineering and chief security officer at Amazon, who explained in a post ...

Google LLC today announced that it’s introducing new requirements for bulk email senders with an aim to help keep Gmail safe, user-friendly and spam-free. The new requirements, set to be introduced by February 2024, are designed to tackle spam and malicious emails. In a blog post, Neil Kumaran, group product manager of Gmail security and trust, ...

Data management provider Cohesity Inc. today announced an expansion to its Data Security Alliance ecosystem with the addition of leading data security posture management vendors to identify and locate previously unknown data repositories and mitigate associated security and privacy risks. Cohesity launched the Data Security Alliance in November. The initial members of the alliance included a long ...

Kubernetes optimization and management platform startup PerfectScale Inc. announced today that it has raised $7.1 million in new funding to expedite its pace of innovation and expand its sales and marketing infrastructure. Founded in 2021, PerfectScale’s Autonomous Optimization and Governance Platform has been designed to streamline so-called Day 2 operations — managing and optimizing an application ...

Identity security platform startup Stack Identity Inc. today announced Shadow Access Risk Assessment Freemium, a free service that provides users with a daily report of shadow access risks in their environment. Shadow access risk — the risk posed by unauthorized access to information technology resources and systems when employees use unauthorized devices, applications, or credentials to ...

New York-based assembly work instructions software startup Dirac Inc. launched today with the beta release of its first product, BuildOS. Pitched as bringing work instructions into the 21st century, BuildOS has been designed to address the issue wherein assembly work instructions take weeks or months of manual, mind-numbing effort. Dirac argues that figuring out what order ...

Security intelligence firm LogRhythm Inc. today announced major advancements to its cloud-native security information and event management platform aimed at rounding out its ability to detect, investigate and respond to potential threats within a security operations center. The new release has a foundation of incident response. Security teams can now leverage Axon to automate team workflows through ...

The U.S. National Security Agency has announced the creation of a new entity to oversee the development and integration of artificial intelligence capabilities within U.S. national security systems. The new NSA AI Security Center has been designed to become a focal point for developing best practices for evaluating methodology and risk frameworks, with an aim ...

Network security company IronNet Inc. has ceased operations two years after it became a publicly traded company through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company. The disclosure came via a Sept. 29 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. IronNet said that given that it had run out of money, it had ceased all ...

As regular as the day becomes night, scammers are always on the lookout for new opportunities, and according to a new report today, that new opportunity is Microsoft Corp.’s artificial intelligence chatbot Bing Chat. Malwarebytes Labs wrote that scammers are now targeting Bing Chat users with malicious ads within the chatbot. Ads can be inserted into ...