Online Privacy

CyberSaint Announces $21M Series A to Accelerate Global Expansion

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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CyberSaint , the leader in cyber risk management, today announced the company has raised $21M in Series A funding led by Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC).

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  • CyberSaint , the leader in cyber risk management, today announced the company has raised $21M in Series A funding led by Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC).
  • The funding will build on customer momentum, accelerate market expansion, and continue the innovation of CyberSaint’s CyberStrong platform powered by its patented Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology.
  • CyberStrong enables enterprises to master their cyber risk posture and drive executive alignment by automating compliance and translating cyber risk into financial terms.
  • It is imperative that optimizing cyber risk posture is elevated to a business-critical level," stated Jerry Layden, CEO of CyberSaint.

From Ransomware to Pig Butchering, Visa Report Shows Top Scams Impacting Consumers and Businesses Globally

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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Today, Visa released the Spring 2024 Edition of its Biannual Threats Report, which outlines the top payment threats impacting consumers and businesses around the world.

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  • Today, Visa released the Spring 2024 Edition of its Biannual Threats Report, which outlines the top payment threats impacting consumers and businesses around the world.
  • “Visa is uniquely positioned to address these threats, with investments in tech and innovation reaching over $10 billion over the past five years.
  • According to another recent Visa survey, more than one-third of adults surveyed decided not to report scams committed against them1, suggesting the losses are higher than reported.
  • Leveraging AI to create more convincing campaigns, pig butchering scams have led to billions of dollars of losses for consumers2.

2024 Thales Data Threat Report Reveals Rise in Ransomware Attacks, as Compliance Failings Leave Businesses Vulnerable to Breaches

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240320217738/en/

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  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240320217738/en/
    The number of enterprises experiencing ransomware attacks surged by over 27% in the past year.
  • Malware stands out as the fastest-growing threat of 2024, with 41% of enterprises witnessing a malware attack in the past year – closely followed by phishing and ransomware.
  • These insights are drawn from the 2024 Thales Data Threat Report, conducted by 451 Research.
  • The report sheds light on how businesses are adapting their data security strategies and practices in response to an evolving threat landscape.

Latest Iteration of GMO GlobalSign's PKIaaS Connector for ServiceNow Features Significantly Expanded Certificate Lifecycle Management Capabilities

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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GMO GlobalSign, Inc. a global Certificate Authority (CA) and leading provider of identity security, digital signing and IoT solutions, today announced the availability of the latest iteration of its PKIaaS Connector for ServiceNow .

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  • GMO GlobalSign, Inc. a global Certificate Authority (CA) and leading provider of identity security, digital signing and IoT solutions, today announced the availability of the latest iteration of its PKIaaS Connector for ServiceNow .
  • Through ServiceNow’s connection to GMO GlobalSign’s certificate management platform, Atlas , enterprises can easily manage their digital certificate requests within their existing ServiceNow instance.
  • With the upgrades in GMO GlobalSign’s PKIaaS Connector, ServiceNow users have expanded certificate lifecycle management capabilities for manual and automated certificate renewal, retrieve and update certificates, filter by expiration, send certificates in email and support expiry notifications via email.
  • These new capabilities of the PKIaaS Connector are ideal for ServiceNow customers who require a better way to manage certificate automation, especially with rapidly decreasing certificate lifecycles.

NICE Actimize Leads Five Best-in-Class Rankings Across Critical Surveillance Categories in Datos Insights Impact Report

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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NICE Actimize, a NICE (NASDAQ: NICE) business, today confirmed that NICE Actimize and its SURVEIL-X Holistic Conduct Surveillance Suite was positioned as Best-In Class across five categories in the recently released Datos Insights Impact report, titled “Trade, Communication, Crypto, and Commodities Surveillance Matrix: Catch the Bad Actors.” (January 2024).

Key Points: 
  • NICE Actimize, a NICE (NASDAQ: NICE) business, today confirmed that NICE Actimize and its SURVEIL-X Holistic Conduct Surveillance Suite was positioned as Best-In Class across five categories in the recently released Datos Insights Impact report, titled “Trade, Communication, Crypto, and Commodities Surveillance Matrix: Catch the Bad Actors.” (January 2024).
  • In addition to achieving the highest overall total average score across all covered facets of surveillance, the report showed NICE Actimize leading in categories that included trade and markets surveillance, communication surveillance, crypto surveillance, and commodities surveillance.
  • In addition, this report provides an analysis of the latest trends around the trade/market, communication, crypto, and commodities surveillance.
  • In the solutions-specific categories, which included trade and markets surveillance, communication surveillance, crypto surveillance, and commodity surveillance, NICE Actimize scored 95 per cent across all categories evaluated, among the highest achievements in the report.

DataGrail Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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Today DataGrail , a leader in data privacy, celebrates being named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024.

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  • Today DataGrail , a leader in data privacy, celebrates being named to Fast Company’s prestigious list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024.
  • The company secured the #4 spot on the list in the Security category for its leadership in data privacy.
  • Alongside the World's 50 Most Innovative Companies, Fast Company recognizes 606 organizations across 58 sectors and regions.
  • The World's Most Innovative Companies stands as Fast Company's hallmark franchise and one of its most anticipated editorial efforts of the year.

World Wide Technology Named AI Enterprise Partner of the Year

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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World Wide Technology (WWT), a $20 billion technology solutions provider, today announced it has been selected as the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) Americas AI Enterprise Partner of the Year.

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  • World Wide Technology (WWT), a $20 billion technology solutions provider, today announced it has been selected as the NVIDIA Partner Network (NPN) Americas AI Enterprise Partner of the Year.
  • This marks the sixth consecutive year WWT has been honored by NVIDIA with a Partner of the Year distinction in the AI and Deep Learning space.
  • Most recently, WWT committed $500 million over the next three years to spur AI development in technology, infrastructure and people across the globe.
  • "WWT is thrilled to be named the NVIDIA Partner Network's Americas AI Enterprise Partner of the Year," said Bob Olwig, executive vice president of global alliances at WWT.

CyberArk Named a Workforce Identity Platforms Leader by Independent Research Firm

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
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CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR ), the identity security company, today announced it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Workforce Identity Platforms, Q1 2024 .1 CyberArk was also recently positioned as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Privileged Identity Management, Q4 2023 2, making it the only company to be recognized as a Leader in both reports.

Key Points: 
  • CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR ), the identity security company, today announced it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Workforce Identity Platforms, Q1 2024 .1 CyberArk was also recently positioned as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Privileged Identity Management, Q4 2023 2, making it the only company to be recognized as a Leader in both reports.
  • The Forrester Wave evaluated workforce identity platform providers that offer the most significant identity and access management (IAM) solutions in addition to providing capabilities such as identity management and governance (IMG) , authentication, directories and access management.
  • CyberArk earned the highest-possible score in the vision, innovation, endpoint device trust, access management , identity threat detection and platform security criteria.
  • 1 – The Forrester Wave™: Workforce Identity Platforms, Q1 2024 by Geoff Cairns, March 20, 2024
    2 – The Forrester Wave™: Privileged Identity Management, Q4 2023 by Geoff Cairns, October 11, 2023

CyberArk Achieves FedRAMP® High Authorization

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR ), the identity security company, today announced that two of its leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager and CyberArk Workforce Identity , have achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High authorization to operate (ATO) status.

Key Points: 
  • CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR ), the identity security company, today announced that two of its leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager and CyberArk Workforce Identity , have achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High authorization to operate (ATO) status.
  • “Agencies must now come to terms with several cloud-based risks that lurk beneath the surface in this new technology landscape.
  • FedRAMP High was introduced to account for some of the government’s most sensitive, unclassified data in cloud computing environments—and is the highest level of authorization.
  • To learn more about how CyberArk successfully serves customers in this sector, visit the Federal Solutions page .

Okta Ventures Unveils "The Identity 25" to Honor Pioneers Shaping the Future of Digital Identity

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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Okta Ventures, the venture investment arm of Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent identity partner, proudly introduces "The Identity 25," an initiative that shines a spotlight on the trailblazers in the burgeoning field of digital identity.

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  • Okta Ventures, the venture investment arm of Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent identity partner, proudly introduces "The Identity 25," an initiative that shines a spotlight on the trailblazers in the burgeoning field of digital identity.
  • This year's Identity 25 list is a diverse compilation of academics, activists, public servants, entrepreneurs, standard-setters, and technology pioneers.
  • Vittorio Bertocci, Principal Architect of AuthO and board director, OpenID
    "The Identity 25 is an initiative designed to recognize the leading lights in the growing Identity space.
  • To explore "The Identity 25" report and learn more about the incredible individuals shaping the future of digital identity, visit here .