Cybersecurity posture startup Balbix Inc. today announced the general availability of its platform’s support for the Google Cloud Platform. Balbix argues that the rapid move to the cloud has made information technology environments more complex to manage and secure. As a result, security teams struggle to get a consolidated view of risk. With the provision of GCP ...

Data management provider Cohesity Inc. has launched the Data Security Alliance to enable industry heavyweights in security and services to help enterprises defend against cyberattacks. Announced today at Cohesity’s annual ReConnect Summit, the alliance launches with an impressive lineup of members. Along with Cohesity itself, the initial members of the alliance include BigID Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., CrowdStrike ...

Google Public Sector, a division of Google LLC that launched in June to help U.S. public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, today announced a new continuity-of-operations offering for government entities under cyberattack. The idea of continuity of operations regarding the U.S. government is far from new and dates back to the Eisenhower Administration, but the ...

Digital identity management company ForgeRock Inc. today announced a cloud-native governance offering designed to help solve security and compliance challenges for large enterprises at large scale. ForgeRock Identity Governance converges ForgeRock’s existing identity and access management platform to deliver gains in efficiency and cost savings through the ability to manage, secure and govern identities from ...

A dual Russian and Canadian national has been arrested for his alleged involvement with the infamous LockBit ransomware gang. Mikhail Vasiliev, 33, is accused of conspiring with others to damage protected computers intentionally and transmit ransom demands. He was arrested in Ontario, Canada, on Nov. 9 and is awaiting an extradition hearing. The U.S. Department ...

Apple Inc. today announced that its emergency satellite-based SOS feature for iPhone 14 models will be available later this month in the U.S. and Canada after it invested $450 million to enable the feature. First mooted in August and announced in September, Emergency SOS uses a satellite connection when a user is out of WiFi or ...

Elon Musk has warned that Twitter faces the possibility of bankruptcy amid ongoing turmoil and staff resignations two weeks after he took control of the microblogging company. Speaking at an all-hands meeting today, Musk (pictured) said Twitter is losing so much money that “bankruptcy is not out of the question.” At the same meeting, Musk is ...

Shares of Expensify Inc. dropped in late trading after the payments provider missed on both earnings and revenue in its fiscal third quarter. For the quarter that ended Sept. 30, Expensify reported a loss of 10 cents per share on revenue of $42.5 million, up 13% year-over-year. Analysts had been expecting a loss of seven cents per ...

It was a busy day for Okta Inc. as the identity platform provider announced new product innovations and partnerships at its annual Oktane22 conference. Topping the list are new innovations for Okta Workforce Identity Cloud that are said to strengthen its single control plane for managing identity across all enterprise resources and users. New innovations include anti-phishing filtering ...

Edge computing startup Macrometa Corp. revealed today that it has raised unspecified new funding and entered into a partnership with Akamai Technologies Inc. that includes product integrations. Founded in 2017, Macrometa offers and develops real-time stateful serverless applications. The company’s Global Data Network allows enterprises to build and run geographically distributed applications, ensuring minimal latency no matter where ...