Darktrace, the world’s leading machine learning company for cyber security, announced recently that it has raised a US$75 million Series D funding round led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Summit Partners, KKR and TenEleven Ventures. This brings its valuation to US$825 million. Darktrace also…
SonicWall Surpasses Three Million Firewalls Sold and Achieves 50 Percent Growth in Partner Deal Registrations Reflecting More Than $250 Million in New Pipeline
SonicWall Surpasses Three Million Firewalls Sold and Achieves 50 Percent Growth in Partner Deal Registrations Reflecting More Than $250 Million in New Pipeline · More than 15,000 partners register for SecureFirst with 4,000 partners new to SonicWall · More than…
McAfee: Transform Time into a Cybersecurity Advantage
With the memory of the recent WannaCry and Adylkuzz cyberattacks fresh in the minds of organisations all over the world, it is time for cyber defenders to place more importance on improving the time it takes to detect breaches and…
New McAfee Study Reveals Asia Pacific Consumers Prioritise Convenience Over Security While on Vacation
New McAfee Study Reveals Asia Pacific Consumers Prioritise Convenience Over Security While on Vacation Easy Accessibility to Unsecured Wi-Fi Leads Vacationers to Risk Their Privacy NEWS HIGHLIGHTS · Majority of respondents from countries in APAC like Japan and Australia, intended…
WannaCry/Wcry Ransomware: How to Defend against It
WannaCry/Wcry Ransomware: How to Defend against It An unprecedented wave of ransomware infections is hitting organizations in all industries around the world. The culprit: the WannaCry/WCry ransomware (detected by Trend Micro as RANSOM_WANA.A and RANSOM_WCRY.I). Trend Micro has been tracking WannaCry since its emergence…
Macron Campaign Hacking During The French Presidential Election
Cybercriminals’ interference and efforts to undermine the electoral process is becoming a trend. France’s newly elected president, Emmanuel Macron, is the latest victim to experience such malicious attacks, resulting in a massive leak of documents one day before the French presidential election. This follows…
SonicWall Sets Blistering Pace of Channel Sign Ups and Launches SonicWall University and Marketing Programs to Enable the Channel to Battle the Cyber Arms Race for SMBs
SonicWall Sets Blistering Pace of Channel Sign Ups and Launches SonicWall University and Marketing Programs to Enable the Channel to Battle the Cyber Arms Race for SMBs · SonicWall launches the SecureFirst Partner Program in Asia Pacific · Registered SecureFirst channel partners…
Don’t Analyse Everything – Analyse the Right Thing to Detect and Respond to Insider Threats
Don’t Analyse Everything – Analyse the Right Thing to Detect and Respond to Insider Threats Jeffrey Kok, Director of Pre-Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan In 2013, organizations worldwide started to take insider threats seriously, thanks to a man named Edward…
Asian cybersecurity confidence levels take a dip
Asian cybersecurity confidence levels take a dip Dick Bussiere, APAC technical director With nation-state cyber attacks, malware intrusions and massive data breaches in the news every day, it is no surprise that cybersecurity is top of mind for organisations everywhere.…
AXA Reaffirms Commitment to Cyber Protection with Award of Cybersecurity Research Grant to SMU
AXA Reaffirms Commitment to Cyber Protection with Award of Cybersecurity Research Grant to SMU 17 April 2017 – The AXA Research Fund, the science philanthropy initiative of global insurance leader, the AXA Group, announced that Professor Robert Deng from SMU’s School…
$150 MILLION IN CONTRACT VALUE: DARKTRACE SOARS TO NEW HIGH
$150 MILLION IN CONTRACT VALUE: DARKTRACE SOARS TO NEW HIGH 30,000 In-progress Threats Detected Across 2,400 Deployments Singapore, April 13, 2017 – Darktrace, the leader in Enterprise Immune System technology, has closed another quarter of phenomenal growth and demand for its unique technology…
From hackers’ point of views: New study exposes their strategies
From hackers’ point of views: New study exposes their strategies A recently released survey interviewed black hat hackers to get a better sense of the strategies and methodologies today’s cybercriminals are using. Today’s businesses can’t take any chances with their…
Rise of new technologies a major concern for Asian cybersecurity professionals
Rise of new technologies a major concern for Asian cybersecurity professionals Dick Bussiere, APAC technical director, Tenable The rapid evolution of technology toward mobile computing, the internet of things (IoT) and cloud is serving to dramatically improve interactions between people…
What Is a Non-Malware (or Fileless) Attack?
What Is a Non-Malware (or Fileless) Attack? Kane Lightowler, Managing Director, Asia Pacific & Japan, Carbon Black Virtually every organization was targeted by a non-malware attack in 2016, and this year will be no different. The global emergence and continued…