Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of June 16; Cobalt Iron, CTERA, Zscaler, and More
The editors at Solutions Review have curated this list of the most noteworthy endpoint security and network monitoring news for the week of June 2. This curated list features endpoint security and network monitoring vendors such as Cobalt Iron, CTERA, Zscaler, and more.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant endpoint security and network monitoring news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last month in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy endpoint security and network monitoring news items.
Endpoint Security and Network Monitoring News for the Week of June 2
Cobalt Iron Earns Patent on Adaptive Cyber Inspection Technology
Cobalt Iron, a cloud security solutions provider, announced it has received a patent on its adaptive, policy-driven data cyber inspection technology. U.S. patent 11663362, granted on May 30, introduces new policy-based approaches for effectively validating data integrity using multiple cyber inspection tools. The technology will be available as part of the company’s Compass enterprise SaaS backup platform. The newly patented capabilities will allow CIOs, security officers, and other data custodians to proactively monitor and validate data using whatever cyber inspection tools are most appropriate and effective for given data or cyber threats. They also allow businesses to establish cyber inspection security policies that ensure their data is being monitored and validated consistently across the enterprise. These cyber inspection security policies provide data security consistency and can prove data custody discipline to the business.
NCC Group Advises on UK Government’s Manual for Smart Streets
This week, the NCC Group alongside the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Transport Technology Forum (TTF) announced the development of the Manual for Smart Streets (MfSS), a newly launched guide for local authorities and other key stakeholders in road infrastructure. Published online, the MfSS supports authorities who are conceiving, designing and implementing smart street systems. It has been created to provide guidance, examples and practical pointers, allowing authorities to make best use of technology and improve how we travel. The MfSS is intended as working content that continues to evolve with emerging practice and technology. It aims to encourage engagement with the TTF and wider practitioner community, such as NCC Group, to further develop the content of this manual and best practices for smart streets.
Illinois Hospital First Healthcare Facility to Link Its Closing to Ransomware Attack
An Illinois hospital will shutter its doors this week in part because of a devastating cyberattack, which experts say makes it the first hospital to publicly link criminal hackers to its closure. St. Margaret’s Health in Spring Valley will close Friday, said Linda Burt, the hospital’s vice president of quality and community services. Spring Valley’s mayor, Melanie Malooley-Thompson, said the hospital’s closing means some residents will have to travel around half an hour for emergency room services and obstetrics services.
CTERA Launches Integrated Zero-Day Ransomware Protection
CTERA, a cloud security solutions provider, this week unveiled CTERA Ransom Protect, a new homegrown AI-power cyber protection engine natively integrated into the CTERA global file system. Using activity sensors built into the file system that are feeding an advanced machine learning algorithm trained on an extensive dataset of attack flows, CTERA Ransom Protect is able to detect and block attacks within seconds and provides tools for immediate mitigation and instant recovery. CTERA Ransom Protect will be available for all CTERA Edge Filer customers in July.
Aware Unveils Aware IQ, the AI-Powered Contextual Intelligence Platform
This week, Aware announced the launch of Aware IQ, an artificial intelligence data platform, purpose-built to understand the unique human context of workplace conversations at scale. Aware uses a variety of techniques to analyze heterogenous digital conversations, including NLP and CV neural network modeling — models trained by a diverse, in-house data science team with the express purpose of interpreting the myriad ways communication occurs in the modern workplace. This allows Aware to identify individual and organizational patterns of behavior in the context of modern communication. That context is often missed by legacy software and traditional surveys. Aware’s models are trained on a proprietary dataset of tens of millions of conversations, which results in more accurate and representative insights than generic datasets. Additionally, Aware’s models are refreshed frequently to ensure accuracy and relevance, which is critical to gaining valuable insight in quickly changing workplaces.
Zscaler and Banner Health Team Up for Solution Review’s Spotlight Series
Solutions Review’s Solution Spotlights are exclusive webinar events for industry professionals across enterprise technology. Since its first virtual event in June 2020, Solutions Review has expanded its multimedia capabilities in response to the overwhelming demand for these kinds of events. Solutions Review’s current menu of online offerings includes the Demo Day, Solution Spotlight, best practices or case study webinars, and panel discussions. And the best part about the “Spotlight” series? They are free to attend! With the next Solution Spotlight event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Zscaler and Banner Health to provide viewers with a unique webinar called Learn How Banner Health Ensures Seamless Digital Experiences.
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Cloud Security Outlook 2023: Navigating Through Economic Uncertainty
Subhalakshmi Ganapathy of ManageEngine takes us through a quick outlook of cloud security as we reach the halfway point in 2023. The cloud’s complex architecture and perimeter-less nature can make it difficult for security teams to devise an effective cloud security strategy. Adding fuel to the fire, the pandemic has accelerated the lift-and-shift approach to the cloud. This has led to increased cloud misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and extended attack surfaces. Today’s economy is forcing organizations to be prudent with their investments. As security teams look for solutions to their existing problems, the last thing they need is a reduced IT budget due to the economic crunch. As any security specialist knows, ensuring security without having the proper tools can be extremely challenging. Despite the challenges, organizations can navigate through cloud security selection while being prudent with their investments.
Securing Satellite Networks with SD-WAN
Chitresh Yadav and Gerardo Melesio of Versa Networks beam down on key features needed to secure satellite networks with SD-WAN. Satellite networking is an important alternative for connectivity in many critical use cases. It plays a key role, for example, in building a reliable global network that can operate under adverse and challenging conditions commonly referred to as “Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited” (DDIL). This is especially crucial in remote environments such as SCADA, as well as military and defense use cases, which can present challenging conditions such as non-existent wired networks, lack of line of sight, and jamming. Today, multi-orbit and multi-band deployments are creating reinvigorated energy in the satellite communications industry. Geostationary (GEO) links are reliable and available nearly worldwide, but their poor latency characteristics make them impractical for many applications. Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) links improve latencies over GEO and have guaranteed bandwidth, making them useful for many enterprise applications. However, due to their orbit track, they are not available close to the Earth’s poles, and they often use Ku bands, which are more susceptible to rain fade. Finally, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) links have proven effective in residential and IoT segments, but often fail to provide symmetric connectivity for more robust use cases.
Mike Costello
Mike Costello is the Content Editor for Cybersecurity at Solutions Review. His work covers Endpoint Security, Identity Management, and SIEM. He is a professionally trained writer and storyteller with a solid foundation in working in many platforms— including print, web, and video. Adaptable, he consistently finds the right voice on various topics and delivers stories that grab your attention. You can reach him at mcostello at solutionsreview dot com.
