Sean Michael Kerner

Cyber-attackers aren’t continuously going after the same executive and high-level management; they are actually shifting targets to other individuals within organizations, including lower management, according to a report from Proofpoint released on Nov. 28. The Proofpoint third-quarter 2018 Protecting People report found that a staggering 99 percent of the most targeted email addresses in the […]

IBM announced on Nov. 28 that it is expanding the capabilities of its QRadar Advisor with Watson platform to help organizations more rapidly understand attacker behaviors. The IBM QRadar Advisor with Watson 2.0 release is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that enables organizations to collect and make sense of security data. With the 2.0 update, […]

Modern applications are often built with a jigsaw puzzle array of pieces that all fit together to enable a full stack of functionality. The challenge from a security perspective is that not every organization or application properly validates all the different puzzle pieces, which can be a risky proposition. Case in point, on Nov. 26 […]

Amazon Web Services is looking to further accelerate the adoption of serverless computing with the announcement on Nov. 26 at its re:Invent conference of its new open-source Firecracker lightweight virtualization technology. There has long been a debate about whether or not it is necessary to run containers within an additional layer of isolation, provided nominally […]

Cyber-security startup Acceptto is set to officially emerge from stealth on Nov. 27, bringing to market its’ new approach to reducing identity fraud with a cognitive authentication platform. The foundation of Acceptto’s platform is the company’s eGuardian engine which enables the cognitive authentication capabilities. With cognitive authentication, rather than relying on usernames and password or […]

When moving to the cloud, organizations face multiple challenges to managing and maintaining access to governance policies. It’s a challenge that startup Orkus is looking to solve with its Access Governance Platform, which it announced on Nov. 26. The Orkus Access Governance Platform provides capabilities for understanding and controlling access and authorization policies. Among the […]

In the era of cloud-native application deployments, with containers, microservices and serverless architectures, traditional firewall technologies are typically a less than ideal solution. Among the vendors that have emerged to tackle the challenge of microservices visibility is Israeli startup Alcide, which has positioned itself as a microservices firewall platform vendor. On Nov. 20, Alcide announced […]

Facebook has faced multiple challenges over the course of 2018 as it has struggled with inauthentic user behavior, abuse of private information and outright attacks where user accounts were hijacked. In an effort to improve user account security and mitigate hijacking threats, Facebook announced on Nov. 20 that it is increasing the awards it pays […]

Cyber-security startup Awake Security announced its flagship technology platform on Nov. 19, providing organizations with a network-based approach for discovering potential cyber-risks. The Awake Security Platform is network traffic analysis (NTA) technology that analyzes data packets to identify malicious and unauthorized activities. The platform’s automated triage capabilities provide risk ratings for security operations center analysis; […]

Assigning identity to applications has long been a challenge for organizations, and it’s one that startup Portshift is looking to help solve. Portshift officially launched on Nov. 20, backed by Israeli cyber-security accelerator Team8 and $5.3 million in seed funding. Portshift’s core technology uses digital signing techniques within the development and deployment phase to validate […]