Meanwhile, Google Cloud posted an operating loss of $974 million during Q1, compared with a $1.73 billion loss a year earlier.

Coin miner malware attacks increased 53% sequentially in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to research from Avira Protection Labs.

The subscription-based, managed detection and response service targets organizations with 50 or more endpoints, and it combines Secureworks’ XDR with Dell Technologies’ security analysts.

“The cybersecurity risks of ransomware are a clear and present, global danger,” McAfee’s Thomas Gann said.

Also this week, the U.S. Department of Energy launched a coordinated effort with CISA to secure the energy sector against cyberattacks.

“Having a high degree of focus on sustainability is in the ethos of the company,” Cisco CFO Scott Herren said.

Palo Alto Networks kicked off its 2021 Symphony event with founder and CTO Nir Zuk touting the benefit of a platform approach to cybersecurity.

The three new products, Device ID, Shape Recognize, and Shape AI Fraud Engine (SAFE), use Shape Security’s core technologies.

While the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly ushered in a shift to remote work, “as things set in, it was very clear that this was here to stay,” VMware’s Shankar Iyer

The new threat intelligence integration also delivers bi-directional feeds so that the Open XDR platform grows smarter over time.

This will also enable applications such as visual inspection of products or predicting the wear-and-tear of machines on the assembly line.

Collusion fraud can happen to companies in any industry, and it highlights the importance of using machine-learning based analytics.

The deal will create two separate companies but preserve Dell and VMware’s “strategic partnership,” VMware CFO and interim CEO Zane Rowe said.

Also on Tuesday, the NSA alerted Microsoft to more critical vulnerabilities that hackers could use to remotely compromise Exchange email systems.

Cybercrime cartels know that banks’ nonpublic market information is their most valuable asset, and criminals can use it to facilitate digital insider trading and front running.

After acquiring Symantec, Broadcom migrated that vendor’s web security service and cloud access security broker onto Google Cloud.

The acquisition is the software giant’s second largest under CEO Sataya Nadella, who paid $26.2 billion for LinkedIn in 2016.

Oracle is a fairly late entrant into the market. At this point all of the major networking and security vendors offer their own SASE platform

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 companies will test Trend Micro’s private 5G network security software in a simulated smart factory and an operational environment.

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

The percentage of companies that said they sacrificed the security of mobile devices to “get the job done” increased from 43% in the 2020 report to 45% this year.

“We’ve taken it upon ourselves to lead the industry in reducing complexity for our customers so that they can protect themselves, but also respond very quickly,” Cisco’s Gee Rittenhouse

“Everyone hates the password,” Cisco Duo’s Wolfgang Goerlich said. “Finally the technology is good enough to replace that factor and radically increase the authentication workflow.”