Ransomware is likely top of mind for most businesses, and CrowdStrike and EY say it’s a key focus of their alliance.

“It’s almost like ransomware is now just a side business to the to the overall extortion business,” Dmitri Alperovitch said during an RSA Conference keynote about the global threat

“But as we've been looking back into our history … they were doing very early recon activities in January of 2019,” SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna said.

VMware’s Angela Weinman and Netflix InfoSec Chief Jimmy Sanders tackled three cybersecurity “hard truths” in an RSA keynote, and discussed how these truths can lead to more resilient security.

Also at the RSA Conference, the security vendor published new attack surface data that found global enterprises expose a new, serious security vulnerability every 12 hours.

Building security into the software design process will save “thousands of dollars,” White House advisor Anne Neuberger said during an RSA Conference keynote.

This allows McAfee’s XDR platform to correlate all of the telemetry that its SASE technologies collect to find more threats, and thus boost its automated investigation and response.

SecureX debuted at last year’s RSA Conference, and now more than 7,000 businesses use the platform. Cisco executives also teased a “premium version” of SecureX in the future.

VMware’s board of directors had a distinct choice between promoting a charismatic leader or a tenured technologist to succeed former CEO Pat Gelsinger.

The timing of the acquisition is notable because the RSA security conference starts on Monday, and Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins will deliver a day 1 keynote.

Biden’s directive requires federal agencies and software suppliers to report breach information, and it establishes a Cybersecurity Safety Review Board to analyze major hacks.

Double-extortion ransomware “is so prevalent now that 10% of data breaches are ransomware attacks,” DBIR co-author Suzanne Widup said.

The virtualization giant also announced that Sanjay Poonen, VMware’s COO for customer operations, “made the personal decision” to leave. Both men were considered CEO frontrunners.

“One of the most important first steps in a zero-trust journey is to establish strong authentication,” Microsoft's Vasu Jakkal said.

The move comes as API vulnerabilities such as those that led to the Experion and Peloton data leaks highlight the need to identify flaws and secure APIs before they

The integrations sound a lot like extended detection and response. But Google Cloud VP of Cloud Security Sunil Potti says the end result is beyond XDR.

The move follows several other EDR vendors that have extended their threat visibility and remediation capabilities beyond endpoints and across customers’ IT environments.

The new Zscaler partnership fits into IBM’s zero-trust, hybrid-work blueprint, and it also marks IBM’s move into SASE.

While RedHat hasn’t decided which group will ultimately assume governance of the open source project, it sounds like CNCF, which also houses Kubernetes, is a safe bet.

The company’s decision to sell Boomi comes less than a month after Dell and VMware announced a deal under which Dell will spin off its 81% stake in VMware.

Overall, AWS generated 12% of Amazon’s total revenue in the first quarter of 2021 and about 47% of its profit.

The private-sector led Ransomware Task Force today issued a report that includes 48 recommendations to combat ransomware, which it says is a $350 million industry.

According to CEO Hitesh Sheth, Vectra will use the new investment to build out its platform and expand its global customer base — and he’s not ruling out acquisitions.

“Although Prisma Cloud is probably best known for container security, we realize that customers are using a diverse set of form factors for running their cloud-native applications,” Palo Alto