Salt Security Chosen to Protect APIs as Part of Application Modernisation at Jemena

Today, Salt Security have announced that Jemena, an energy supplier across the east coast of Australia and the Northern Territory, has chosen Salt to protect its critical gas and electricity infrastructure. Integrating seamlessly within Jemena’s AWS environment, Salt provides Jemena with a purpose-built and AI-driven API security solution for API discovery, posture management, and threat […]

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July 12, 2023
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Dragos Hosts Inaugural Dragos European Forum For Industrial Asset Owners and Operators

To celebrate their European expansion, Dragos Inc. held its first Dragos Europe Forum at the iconic Battersea Power Station June 26-28. The event brought together members of the operational technology (OT) community to inform, exchange ideas, and network. The event was a celebration of the growing community of practitioners focused on OT cybersecurity in Europe […]

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July 10, 2023
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Cato SASE Cloud Identified as a “Leader” in GigaOm’s Secure Service Access (SSA) Ranking

Today, Cato Networks announced that it was named a “Leader” and “Outperformer” by GigaOm for the second year running. The ranking was listed in the research firm’s Radar Report for Secure Service Access (SSA), GigaOm’s term for SASE. The report’s comprehensive review evaluates the degree to which suppliers converge networking and security into a single, global cloud […]

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July 5, 2023
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Digital-First Economy Has Transformed Role of CISO

A new global survey by Salt Security has found that a digital-first economy has introduced unforeseen risks for nearly 90% of CISOs. The findings were revealed earlier this week in a new “State of the CISO 2023” report. Conducted by Global Surveyz for Salt, the global CISO survey gathered feedback from 300 CISOs/CSOs around the […]

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June 23, 2023
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More than 1 in 3 UK&I workers are likely to click a phishing link

New research has found over 1 in 3 UK&I workers are likely to click a phishing link, according to KnowBe4’s 2023 Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report. The report measures an organisation’s Phish-prone™ Percentage (PPP), which shows the likelihood employees will be duped by phishing or a social engineering scam. The overall baseline for 2023, which […]

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June 23, 2023
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IT Security Guru study shows over one in ten Brits are willing to engage in ‘illegal or illicit’ online behaviour as the Cost of Living crisis worsens

The IT Security Guru, working in conjunction with market research firm Censuswide and cybersecurity PR agency Eskenzi PR, has uncovered some shocking statistics relating to scams and the cost of living crisis. The results of the survey found that 11% of Brits were tempted to engage in ‘illegal or illicit online behaviour’ in order to […]

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June 15, 2023
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Outpost24 Acquires EASM Provider Sweepatic

Cybersecurity risk management specialists Outpost24 have today announced the acquisition of Sweepatic. Based in Leuven, Belgium, Sweepatic is an innovative external attack surface management (EASM) platform. Gartner identified EASM as a top Security and Risk Management (SRM) trend for 2022. By leveraging their EASM solution across Outpost24s full-stack security assessment and threat intelligence offering, customers […]

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June 7, 2023
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Research Reveals UK Firms Plan to Embrace New Era of Digital Identity

A new research report, entitled Plotting the Roadmap for Digital Identity, by API focused identity and access management company Curity found that UK organisations and consumers are ready to embrace a new era of digital identity. The research revealed that 60% of organisations in the UK and US expect digital identity to have a transformative […]

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May 31, 2023
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Salt Security Attains AWS Security Competency Status 

Today, Salt Security announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency status in the Application Security category. Salt is the only API security company to have earned AWS Security Competency. Having this certification differentiates Salt as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member that provides specialised software to assess code, logic, and applications […]

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May 31, 2023
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How to prevent against the 5 main types of insider threats

Over one in ten data breaches originate from a malicious insider, and they cost companies $4.18 million dollars per incident. And that’s only the malicious ones.   According to the 2023 Insider Threat Report by Cybersecurity Insiders, nearly three-fourths (74%) of organizations are at least moderately vulnerable to insider threats. It’s worth a company’s time to […]

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May 19, 2023
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