Thales has announced the availability of CipherTrust Transparent Encryption (CTE) through the CipherTrust Data Security Platform as-a-service. CTE is designed to provide transparent, high-performance encryption for complex environments without the need to modify applications or underlying infrastructure. In continuing to expand its cloud service offerings, Thales remains committed to providingRead More…

Cybersecurity leader Exabeam has announced its partnership with Wiz, a leader in cloud security. This collaboration provides organizations with improved threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) capabilities, ensuring a more secure and resilient cloud environment. With its open architecture the Exabeam New-Scale Security Operations Platform supports a best-of-breed ecosystem that includes hundredsRead More…

Vectra AI  has announced the appointment of Taj El-khayat as Vice President of EMEA Partner Sales and Alliances. In this role, El-Khayat will build on Vectra AI’s partner-first foundation, delivering increased resources, training, and support to channel partners, Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), technology and cloud alliances, and Global SystemsRead More…

The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has identified five Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities within the needrestart component, which is installed by default on Ubuntu Server. These vulnerabilities can be exploited by any unprivileged user to gain full root access without requiring user interaction. The identified flaws have been assigned the CVERead More…

Secure Domains has announced the launch of its operations in the Middle East and Africa. As a cloud-native cybersecurity vendor, Secure Domains helps organisations protect their users, data, and applications against advanced threats in a borderless infrastructure. The company is also the first vendorRead More…

Accenture has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Reality Defender, an RSA Innovation award-winning cybersecurity company specializing in deepfake detection. Together, Accenture and Reality Defender will equip clients in the financial services, media and high-tech industries with the ability to rapidly identify, detect, respond to and prevent deepfake fraud. FoundedRead More…

  To further enhance global efforts to combat cyber offenses, Kaspersky (www.Kaspersky.co.za) and AFRIPOL have signed a cooperation agreement in preventing and fighting cybercrime. Covering a period of five years, the document formalises and facilitates cooperation between the company and the law enforcement agencyRead More…