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New infosec products of the week: May 10, 2024

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Abnormal Security, AuditBoard, Cranium, Datadog, Eclypsium, ExtraHop, Forcepoint, SentinelOne, Splunk, Sumo Logic, and Trellix. AuditBoard enhances InfoSec Solutions to reduce compliance fatigue across the organization…

Zscaler swats claims of a significant breach

On Wednesday, a threat actor named “InteIBroker” put up for sale “access to one of the largest cyber security companies” and immediately ignited speculation about which company it might be. InteIBroker claims to have access to “logs packed with credentials”,…

CISA starts CVE “vulnrichment” program

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has announced the creation of “Vulnrichment,” a new project that aims to fill the CVE enrichment gap created by NIST National Vulnerability Database’s recent slowdown. NVD is failing Since 1999, NVD analysts have…

Critical Start adds multiple frameworks to Risk Assessments

Critical Start announced the expansion of the frameworks available in its Risk Assessments offering. These additions to the tool expand upon the initial offering, providing additional framework-based assessments for customers to achieve data-driven evaluation, articulation, and monitoring their overall cyber…

Regulators are coming for IoT device security

Cybersecurity is a relatively new challenge for many IoT device makers who have traditionally produced non-connected devices. These devices were less vulnerable to exploitation and, as a result, manufacturers often lack the expertise and experience needed to effectively secure their…

Global ransomware crisis worsens

Ransomware and extortion incidents surged by 67% in 2023, according to NTT Security Holdings’ 2024 Global Threat Intelligence Report. Global ransomware crisis After a down year in 2022, ransomware and extortion incidents increased in 2023. More than 5,000 ransomware victims…

Why SMBs are facing significant security, business risks

In this Help Net Security video, Alex Cox, Director of Threat Intelligence at LastPass, discusses how human factors are getting in the way while SMB leaders report investing more time, attention, and budget in cybersecurity. According to LastPass, these factors…

CyberSaint releases NIST CSF Benchmarking Feature

CyberSaint released the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) Benchmarking Feature, which allows CISOs and security teams to measure their NIST posture against industry peers through a historical maturity graph on the CyberStrong Executive Dashboard. Organizations across industries struggle to compare themselves…

Ghost Security Phantasm detects attackers targeting APIs

Ghost Security announced the early access availability of Phantasm, application-specific threat intelligence poised to fill a large gap that currently exists in both threat intelligence and application security. Developed by a team of industry experts from Ghost Labs, the research…