A multi-party breach creates 26 times more financial damage than the damage that can be caused by even the worst single-party breach, according to a new report from Mastercard company RiskRecon and Cyentia Institute. The study, “Ripples Across the Risk Surface,” quantifies how a multi-party data breach impacts numerous organizations […]
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Gartner’s list of top tech initiatives for 2022
Gartner released its annual list of top strategic technology trends this week, projecting that 2022 will keep enterprise executives busy with new developments in everything from artificial intelligence to cybersecurity. While much of this tech is centered on greater automation and even autonomy in data systems, there are also some […]
Report: Ransomware affected 72% of organizations in past year
SpyCloud researchers recently reported that an overwhelming majority of cybersecurity leaders surveyed (81%) believe their organization’s security is above average or exceptional. At the same time, 72% reported that their organization was affected by ransomware at least once within the past twelve months, with 18% reporting they were impacted more […]
Prosimo claims to offer industry’s first autonomous multicloud networking
With more organizations embracing the cloud for operations, simplifying multicloud networking is key to empowering cloud operations. Prosimo, an application experience infrastructure (AXI) company that delivers simplified multicloud infrastructure for distributed enterprise cloud journeys, recently released advanced features for App Transit, what it calls the industry’s only infrastructure for cloud […]
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Former cybersecurity leader says U.S. government can improve cybersecurity for all
Former U.S. Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity leader Christopher Krebs laughed off the question without comment at the IT Symposium hosted by research firm Gartner this week: “How would you prefer to be fired, in-person or via Twitter?” Krebs was famously fired by Donald Trump for disagreeing with claims of […]
Software observability platform Honeycomb raises $50M
Honeycomb, a software observability platform used by developers at companies such as Stripe, Slack, Heroku, and LaunchDarkly, has raised $50 million in a series C round of funding. “Observability” is chiefly concerned with metrics, logs, and traces — that is, measuring the internal state of a system by analyzing the […]
How Hackers Hijacked Thousands of High-Profile YouTube Accounts
Since at least 2019, hackers have been hijacking high-profile YouTube channels. Sometimes they broadcast cryptocurrency scams, sometimes they simply auction off access to the account. Now, Google has detailed the technique that hackers-for-hire used to compromise thousands of YouTube creators in just the past couple of years. Cryptocurrency scams and […]
Smart microgrids are replacing legacy electrical systems
The technology world tends to take electricity for granted, a commodity that simply flows from the wall. But behind the sockets and wires, a quiet revolution has been transforming how the world generates and delivers electricity. The old model of a single large plant is being replaced by a complex […]
Hackers leak over 24M of user records from Vimeo’s Livestream
Undoubtedly, this month has proven to be one of the worst, not only for Mark Zuckerberg, but Instagram and Facebook users as well. A couple of days after the hacking of more than 2 million accounts of Snapchat users, 24 million records of Livestream user profiles were given for free […]
Managed open source data infrastructure provider Aiven raises $60M
Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. Aiven, a provider of fully managed and hosted services for myriad open source data infrastructure projects including Kafka, Grafana, and Cassandra, has raised $60 million in a series C extension round at a $2 billion valuation. The raise comes as businesses across the […]