Shares in F5 Inc. dropped in late trading today after the application security firm announced layoffs and reported lower-than-expected guidance. The multicloud security and application delivery firm did, however, top estimates in its latest quarterly earnings report. For its fiscal second quarter, F5 reported a profit before costs such as stock compensation of $154 million, or $2.53 per ...

Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub today announced two new tools aimed at helping developers ensure the integrity of their projects and secure the software supply chain. The first new tool, private vulnerability reporting, is now generally available and designed to help open-source maintainers and security researchers embrace best practices to report and fix vulnerabilities. The private collaboration channel ...

Application programming interface security startup Cequence Security Inc. announced today that Hewlett-Packard Pathfinder and Prosperity7 Ventures have made strategic investments in the company. Founded in 2014, Cequence offers a scalable software platform designed to protect customers’ web, mobile and API applications from malicious bot attacks. The platform offers web and runtime API visibility, security risk monitoring and behavioral ...

Dell Inc. announced today that it is building a zero-trust security ecosystem that brings together more than 30 leading technology and security companies to create a unified solution across infrastructure platforms, applications, clouds and services. The new ecosystem seeks to address the challenge of implementing the seven pillars of zero trust. Dell argues that though ...

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. today announced a new managed extended detection and response service that unifies human expertise with AI-powered automation and threat intelligence. CrowdStrike Falcon Complete XDR, built on the company’s Falcon platform, includes 24/7 expert management, threat hunting, monitoring and end-to-end remediation across all key attack surfaces to close the cybersecurity skills gap. With human expertise ...

Data stolen from network infrastructure provider CommScope Holding Co. Inc. has been published on the dark web, the shady corner of the internet reachable through special software, following a successful ransomware attack. The first anyone became aware that CommScope had been targeted was when the Vice Society ransomware gang published the stolen data on their ...

Cybersecurity solutions and services provider Specter Ops Inc. today announced that it has raised $25 million in new funding to accelerate the adoption of its BloodHound Enterprise product and expand research and development initiatives. SpectorOps, as it prefers to be called, was founded in 2017 with the belief that “only with true knowledge of how ...

Salesforce Inc. today announced new capabilities and compliance certifications across Customer 360 for Public Sector that help government agencies modernize their services. The new capabilities leverage Salesforce’s customer relationship management tools, artificial intelligence, automation and data tools to help government agencies boost staff productivity, reducing costs and improving outcomes. The new release includes prebuilt, government-specific capabilities ...

Information technology services management company Edgio Inc. today announced the availability of a new bot management solution that mitigates a wide range of evolving malicious bots while providing observability into good bots. Edgio’s Advanced Bot Manager works by leveraging massive amounts of data drawn from the company’s global deployment and then applies machine learning to detect bots ...

Low-code security automation company Swimlane LLC today announced a new strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. and said its Swimlane Turbine product is now a cloud-native platform. The partnership sees Swimlane’s low-code automation platform Turbine now integrating with Amazon Security Lake. Security Lake is a purpose-built security data lake from AWS that helps organizations aggregate, manage ...