Cybersecurity will take its place alongside chemical contaminant removal as an element the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says public water systems must mitigate. "Cyberattacks that are targeting water systems are real and a significant threat," said an EPA official.
Zscaler has axed nearly 180 workers after more deliberation from new customers around large purchasing decisions led to reduced billings growth. The company revealed plans to cut its 5,900-person staff by roughly 3% - or about 177 positions - as it adapts to a more challenging business environment.
In the 21-month stretch from October 2020 to June 2022, a whopping 48 cybersecurity startups received 10-figure valuations as investors evaluated prospects on potential rather than performance. Now that the financial boom has gone bust, what happens to these unicorns from a different economic era?
Hewlett Packard Enterprise will soon offer clients single-vendor SASE after agreeing to buy a security service edge startup founded by a Symantec security researcher. HPE will combine the cloud, web and data security technology acquired from Axis Security with its SD-WAN tool from Silver Peak.
A Georgia man who is the chief operating officer of a network security firm can't escape criminal charges related to a 2018 cyberattack against a local medical center. Vikas Singla faces 18 charges of illegal hacking, including 15 charges for disrupting a Lexmark printer network.
A new federal strategy to make commercial manufacturers liable for insecure software requires an attainable safe harbor policy and could be a disincentive for software manufacturers in sharing important vulnerability information with the U.S. government, according to industry observers.
Retired Air Force Gen. Gregory Touhill, the very first U.S. federal CISO back in the Obama administration, says he's encouraged by the new U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy. His top takeaway: the shift of cybersecurity responsibility from consumers to manufacturers of vulnerable products.
Online counseling provider BetterHelp is set to come under two decades of privacy monitoring by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission after settling allegations that it violated users' privacy by sharing identifying information with social media platforms including Facebook.
Tom Kellermann has never tempered his criticism of U.S. cybersecurity policies. But he is openly enthusiastic about the National Cybersecurity Strategy unveiled March 2. "I was blown away," Kellermann says about the Biden administration's new five-pillar policy. "Seriously, this is a true strategy."
In this week's roundup: an incident affecting News Corp and ransomware at Dish Network, Washington's Pierce Transit and the U.S. Marshals Service. Also: a DDoS attack on Danish hospitals from a threat actor that isn't what it claims and a bit of good news about a ransomware decryptor.
High street retailer WH Smith reports that it suffered a hack attack that led to the exposure of current and former employees' personal data, but no exposure of customer data or website disruption. It's the latest big British business in recent months to suffer a data breach or ransomware attack.
The Biden administration has unveiled its new national cybersecurity strategy, detailing top challenges facing the U.S. and plans for addressing them. Goals include minimum security requirements for critical infrastructure sector organizations and liability for poor software development practices.
Summa Equity bought a majority stake in Logpoint to help the security operations firm expand in areas such as automation, detection and response, and attack surface management. The sustainable growth fund says the acquisition will allow the company to acquire technologies in adjacent areas.
Okta Identity Governance has enjoyed success in its first quarter of global availability as businesses unify access management and governance. Okta is surprised by the amount of traction its governance offering has gained with large enterprises and in competitive bake-offs, says CEO Todd McKinnon.
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