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AlienVault closes new financing round of $52 million

Published in Compliance/Governance/Risk Management Datacentre + Network Security Identity/Access Management Security + Compliance Security-as-a-Service

AlienVault has closed a $52 million Series E funding round, which brings the company’s total funding raised to nearly $116 million. New investor Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) led the round with strong participation from existing investors, including Trident Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and GGV Capital. As part of the funding, Steve Harrick, General Partner at IVP, will join the board of directors as an observer. The company will use the funding to scale its global...

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Tripwire has announced the results of a survey of over 270 attendees at Infosecurity Europe 2015 in Olympia, London in the United Kingdom.

Research shows that IT departments are behind in supporting current working trends

Intercity Technology study reveals that on average, IT users feel that IT departments are 21 months behind supporting current working trends, with a third more than two years behind.

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Experienced enterprise and SaaS sales leader to lead the charge with Tufin’s global sales strategy, expansion and field execution.

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Number of DDoS attacks more than doubled compared to Q2 2014; mega-attacks on the rise.

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Informatica has revealed that only a quarter of U.K. businesses believe their organisation could detect a data breach at any time, and just 33 per cent say their organisation is very good to excellent at detecting and containing breaches. Meanwhile, nearly half (49 per cent) of respondents admit to having experienced a breach in the past 12 months and believe it could have been avoided if certain processes and intelligent technologies had been in place.

Financial organisations are prone to lax cybersecurity practices

Netwrix survey reveals that 33% of financial organisations discovered sensitive data in insecure...

Nearly four out of five organisations have faced ransomware attacks

Hitachi Vantara has published the findings of a co-sponsored research report with Enterprise...

Lacework adds new agentless scanning

With both agent-based and agentless scanning, the Polygraph Data Platform delivers customers more...

Passwords are failing IT security

Passwords are a cornerstone method for securing access to data. However, a new survey...

NatWest protects customers

Offering award-winning, top-of-the-line security protection to all consumer and business banking...

93% of security decision makers are being kept awake at night

A new research report by CSI Ltd looking into the top concerns of cyber security decision makers...

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Case Study: @nifty Delivering IT Security to Their Customers with Kaspersky

NIFTY Corporation is one of the leading Telecoms and Internet Service Providers in Japan, supplying high-speed broadband connectivity to more than 1.39 million broadband users. Providing robust security for the many subscribers to its online services is very important because repeated security breaches or loss of service may result in customers suffering damage or losses - and ultimately leaving NIFTY and moving to competitors' services.

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