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API security startup 42Crunch raises $17M Series A led by Energy Impact Partners

TechCrunch

With security top of mind in many companies these days, especially given how many staff work at home, there is one area that remains chronically ignored: that of the world of APIs which power all of the platforms we all use every day. Now, a significant player in the cybersecurity of APIs is super-charging its offering.

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How to minimize remote access cyber security threats in 2024

CIO

Organizations have shifted to remote desktop work environments at an increasing speed since then – simultaneously expanding their attack surface and exposing themselves to greater cybersecurity threats. Given that threat actors exploit critical vulnerabilities within mere hours of publication, this poses a serious security risk for companies.

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How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty

CIO

Today, security, networking, and IT teams are faced with reduced headcount, shrinking budgets, and the very real need to do more with less. Yesterday’s hub-and-spoke networks and castle-and-moat security models were adequate when users, applications, and data all resided onsite in the corporate office or data center.

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Phishers target oil and gas industry amid Covid-19 downturn

The Parallax

In some cases, that’s already happening, says Tom Murphy, chief technology officer at network security provider Nuspire. Attacks are becoming more complex because so many people are working from home and are outside of their employers’ firewalls,” he says. READ MORE ON COVID-19 AND ENERGY.

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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO

As an infrastructure and security practitioner with nearly 30 years of experience, I’ve witnessed periods of rapid change in the technology landscape. For decades, organizations have considered networking and security a cost of doing business. Our networking and security methods have been successful.

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Palo Alto Networks a Customers’ Choice in Gartner Peer Insights Report

Palo Alto Networks

We defined the network security market with our next-generation firewall more than a decade ago, and we’ve continued to lead innovations in NGFWs – both physical and virtual – in the years since then. We’ve also broadened our solution offering to secure the entire enterprise, serving more than 80,000 customers.

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CVE-2024-21762: Critical Fortinet FortiOS Out-of-Bound Write SSL VPN Vulnerability

Tenable

Fortinet vulnerabilities have been included as part of the top routinely exploited vulnerabilities lists over the last few years ​​that have been published by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in partnership with other U.S. and international agencies.

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