Cybersecurity software provider Tanium Inc. today announced new artificial intelligence-powered autonomous innovations at its Converge 2024 user conference, designed to transform how information technology and security teams manage their environments. Leading the list is Tanium Autonomous Endpoint Management, a new service that enhances and extends the company’s existing offering through a set of autonomous capabilities across its ...

Third-party cyber risk intelligence firm Black Kite Inc. today announced new cloud asset mapping capabilities that enhance vendor risk management and deliver new levels of visibility. The new capabilities have been designed to deliver deeper insights into customer and vendor cloud infrastructure. With the new capabilities, customers can track and monitor their own cloud infrastructure ...

Microsoft Corp. announced a series of advancements in its security strategy at its annual Ignite Conference in Chicago today, all aimed at enhancing protection across its ecosystem. The updates focus on expanding the capabilities of Windows security, enhancing defense through the general availability of Microsoft’s Security Exposure Management Platform and the launch of a new ...

Artificial intelligence infrastructure provider Nebius Group NV today announced the launch of its first graphics processing unit clusters in the U.S. with a deployment in Kansas City, Missouri. Nebius was previously known as Yandex NV, the Dutch holding company of the prominent Russian technology company of the same name. Yandex sold its Russian assets to ...

Content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced two significant updates aimed at increasing cloud security and enhancing application performance. The first announcement today is the extension of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation to Amazon Web Services Inc. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is a service that provides microsegmentation capabilities that isolate and protect critical applications and workloads ...

A database with information on 122 million people that has been circulating since February 2024 has been confirmed to have been stolen from the business-to-business demand generation platform DemandScience US LLC. The database first appeared for sale on the infamous hacking forum BreachForums from a user called “KryptonZambie,” who claimed that the data was stolen ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is reportedly preparing to launch an investigation into claims that Microsoft Corp. uses anticompetitive practices in its cloud business. The Financial Times, referencing unnamed “people with direct knowledge of the matter,” reported that the FTC is examining allegations that Microsoft is abusing its market power by imposing punitive licensing terms to ...

Passwordless authentication company Descope Inc. today announced a range of new capabilities that are designed to help e-commerce and online retail companies provide secure, personalized and omnichannel authentication experiences to their customers. The capabilities include support for Google One Tap, a comprehensive WordPress plugin, passkey support and user journey A/B testing that allows retail stores of all sizes ...

Amazon Web Services Inc. announced today that it has joined the Sheltered Harbor Alliance program, a nonprofit industry consortium dedicated to enhancing cyber resiliency in financial services. As part of joining the alliance, AWS is aiming to simplify the process of building cyber vault capabilities for AWS. The collaboration aims to bolster protection against ransomware ...

Managed cloud service provider Mission Cloud Services Inc. today launched Mission Cloud Secure, a fully managed cloud detection and response service powered by CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s Falcon cybersecurity platform. The new offering has been designed to provide Amazon Web Services Inc. customers with comprehensive managed security to stop cloud breaches. Mission Cloud Secure seeks to take on ...