The Series D follows three years of growth for the company, which has seen a five-fold increase in customers and 800% revenue growth during that time.

The Carbon Black Cloud tooling update aims to "bridge the gap between the SOC team and DevOps team,” VMware Carbon Black's Shemer Schwarz explained.

FortiCWP Container Guardian secures container registries from vulnerabilities and scans for misconfigurations to protect Kubernetes workloads.

Palo Alto Networks SASE-fied Comcast SDN; Nokia hastened its shift to cloud; and SolarWinds' CEO claimed software will block breaches.

A software vulnerability led to the SolarWinds supply chain attack, and according to CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna, software is also part of the solution to prevent a future breach.

The security services work across multiple clouds, and they use automation to prioritize risks, respond to threats, and connect that data with on-premises security operations.

“Understanding how the offense works is the best defense,” said John Hammond, a senior security researcher at Huntress.

Intel has signed on to DARPA's SAHARA and DPRIVE projects to develop custom ASICs for the U.S. government.

The highest ransom paid by an organization to a cybercriminal gang doubled from $5 million in 2019 to $10 million in 2020, while the average ransom paid skyrocketed 171%.

A survey conducted by Ponemon Institute found 73% of respondents wanted more transparency from their technology partners.

CrowdStrike paid $400 million for Humio; Palo Alto Networks dropped $158 million for Bridgecrew; and HPE acquired CloudPhysics.

The next decade will be significantly riskier when it comes to supply chain security, Intel's Jackie Sturm said.

At least 10 different advanced persistent threat groups in addition to China-linked Hafnium have been actively exploiting the recent Microsoft Exchange security flaws.

Unlike Spectre or Meltdown, the side-channel attacks don't rely on previously disclosed exploits and are immune to the current crop of countermeasures.

Microsoft issued patches for older, unsupported versions of its Exchange Server email software in the wake of a major hack linked to China.

FireEye’s Mandiant threat intelligence team identified the Clop ransomware operators as the criminal group behind the Accellion breach.

Intel and its partners discovered 231 vulnerabilities affecting the companies product portfolio. None are known to have been exploited.

“The pandemic was the heyday that attackers were looking for,” said Limor Kessem, executive security advisor at IBM Security.

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Remote code execution vulnerabilities pose especially critical threats to organizations, and VMware’s stronghold in data centers worldwide give patching these flaws particular urgency.

Telus inked a 10-year Google Cloud deal; Fortinet's firewalls and web apps were hit by a security flaw; and Oracle Hybrid Cloud roved to the edge.

Two of the four vulnerabilities are particularly potent as they didn't require authorization to exploit, said Positive Technologies' Andrey Medov.

Cisco Secure Application continually scans code execution to prevent exploits and can automatically block attacks, the vendor says.

According Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence team, 83% of medical imaging devices run on unsupported operating systems, which makes them potential avenues for attackers.