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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Ermetic announces CNAPPgoat, a new open-source project for cloud security testing

Cloud infrastructure security company Ermetic Ltd. today announced CNAPPgoat, an open-source project that allows organizations to test their cloud security skills, processes, tools and posture safely in interactive sandbox environments. Set to be officially presented at the DEF CON hacker conference Demo Labs event on Aug. 11, CNAPPgoat enables organizations to evaluate their cloud-native application protection ...

Solvo introduces SecurityGenie, a prompt-based cloud security solution

Adaptive cloud infrastructure security solutions startup Solvo today announced the launch of SecurityGenie, a prompt-based cloud security solution with instant and precise answers to cloud security questions, eliminating time-consuming manual searches. Powered by technology from OpenAI LP, SecurityGenie uses natural language processing to assist security engineers and executives in quickly identifying and remediating security risks such as misconfigurations, vulnerabilities and ...

Location intelligence insights company Local Logic raises $13M

Location intelligence insights company Local Logic today announced that it has raised $13 million in new funding to accelerate its predictive capabilities, which allow users to predict latent demand for housing and understand how neighborhoods evolve. Founded in 2014 as Enterprise Nexmoov Inc., Logic Logic offers a location intelligence platform that digitizes the built world to make ...

Mitiga report reveals unique way to abuse AWS Systems Manager agent

Updated Aug. 4 with comment from Amazon  A new report today from cloud incident response company Mitiga Security Inc. details a new potential post-exploitation technique involving Amazon Web Services Inc.’s System Manager agent. The exploit involves the potential for the SSM agent to be used as a remote access trojan or RAT virus on both Linux ...

Akamai’s new API Security solution seeks to combat rising cyberthreats

Content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced a new application programming interface security solution designed to combat increasing API attacks and identify business logic abuse within APIs. API Security uses technology gained by Akamai from its purchase of API detection and response platform provider Neosec Inc. earlier this year. API Security works with any ...

Cisco’s new XDR features strengthen cyber resilience against ransomware

Networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. today announced that it has added ransomware detection and recovery support to its extended detection and response solution, bringing near real-time recovery for business operations after a ransomware attack. Cisco announced its XDR service in April, introducing deep telemetry and visibility across network and endpoints. The addition of ransomware protection is centered ...

Commvault shares fall despite earnings and revenue beats

Shares in Commvault Systems Inc. fell by nearly 6% in regular trading today despite the data protection provider reporting earnings and revenue beats in its latest quarter. For its fiscal first quarter that ended June 30, Commvault reported earnings before certain costs of $32.5 million, or 72 cents per diluted share, up from 64 cents per ...

Balbix introduces new automated CIS Benchmark capabilities for enhanced security compliance

Cybersecurity posture startup Balbix Inc. today announced a new Center for Internet Security Benchmark automation tool that allows compliance teams to obtain updated CIS Benchmark reports, identify their most vulnerable assets and reduce security risks. The new service has been designed to tackle the issue wherein businesses often undertake CIS Benchmarking once a year and don’t understand how ...

Enterprise network-as-a-service startup Nile raises $175 million

Enterprise network-as-a-service startup Nile Global Inc. today announced that it has raised $175 million in new funding. The company’s goal is to eliminate the operational complexities plaguing enterprise networks in their ability to support cloud enterprise information technology solutions without compromising zero-trust security. That’s the notion that no user or device on a computer network can be ...

Surge in threat activity in OT and IoT environments uncovered by Nozomi Networks

A new report released today by industrial cybersecurity firm Nozomi Networks Inc. has warned that there is an alarming surge in malware activity in operational technology and internet of things environments. The Nozomi Networks Labs OT & IoT Security Report: Unpacking the Threat Landscape with Unique Telemetry Data was put together based on telemetry data from OT and IoT ...