The primary driver behind the decision was Fortinet's ability to integrate multiple security solutions into a single platform, FC Barcelona's Sergi Ricart said.

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"[Managed service provider] is like the neck on the head. They're making the choice," Daniel Bernard said.

The deal brings Fortinet into the highly competitive and growing cloud-native application protection platform market, said 650 Group's Chris DePuy.

Pax8 plans to add more security giants to its marketplace, CEO Scott Chasin said. “You've got Coke and you have Pepsi, we believe in marketplace neutrality."

According to a recent study, the healthcare industry is the sector most vulnerable to cyberattacks. Which others join it on the Top 10 list?

More than two-thirds of non-IT employees are troublingly over-confident in their ability to detect a phishing email that could lead to a ransomware attack.

“Not surprisingly, AI [artificial intelligence] is a significant factor, impacting the 2024 trends," Forrester's Geoff Cairns said.

Palo Alto Networks announced an agreement to acquire IBM's QRadar software-as-a-service assets, including intellectual property rights.

The report findings also underscored the tension between the need for rapid development and the imperative of maintaining security.

A lot of CISOs are shying away from artificial intelligence conversations and decisions and letting the business and the data team go do their own thing,

Cybercriminals "can afford to pay more people now. They have more sophisticated tools at hand," said Fortinet's Derek Manky.

Palo Alto Networks unveiled its proprietary artificial intelligence system that combines generative AI, machine learning and deep learning capabilities.

The report also showed the median loss associated with ransomware and extortion almost doubled.

More is expected of the modern CISO than keeping up with security threats and ensuring patches are made. It’s all about people and communications.

Other top cybersecurity threats include narrative attacks, artificial intelligence responses and nation-state espionage.

Abusing a domain name system query known as NXDOMAIN is a popular distributed denial of service technique. Akamai's new Shield NS53 aims to defend against it.

Trend Micro observed a clear drop in the number of actual LockBit infections following Operation Cronos.

In a scathing report, Microsoft was cited for a series of avoidable errors, failure to detect compromises and slow corrections to inaccurate public statements.

Google observed 97 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2023, a 56% increase year over year.

With security breaches growing in both numbers and severity, as well as pressure from the feds, it's a good time for CISOs and the C-suite to start talking.

The debate between CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks over their definition of a platform has intensified with comments made by both companies recently

The shared responsibility model "is contractually and legally correct, but it doesn't ... embody the right philosophical approach for security," CISO Phil Venables said.

Cisco plans to incorporate its Talos threat intelligence into Splunk and unify the two vendors' artificial intelligence assistants for security capabilities