Jeff Schwartz
@jeffreyschwartz.bsky.social
Journalist covering cybersecurity and enterprise information technology.
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Varonis has acquired email security provider SlashNext and plans to add advanced phishing protection to its data security platform.
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Varonis Acquires Email Security Provider SlashNext
Varonis plans to integrate SlashNext's advanced phishing, BEC, and social engineering attack protection capabilities into its data security platform.
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September 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Varonis has acquired email security provider SlashNext and plans to add advanced phishing protection to its data security platform.
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IBM Consulting, Keyfactor, Quantinuum and Thales are pooling their respective resources to provide enterprises with unified post-quantum cryptography (PQC) technology and services with the new Quantum-Safe 360 Alliance.
New Quantum-Safe Alliance Aims to Accelerate PQC Implementation
The new Quantum-Safe 360 Alliance will provide road maps, technology, and services to help organizations navigate the post-quantum cryptography transition before the 2030 deadline.
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August 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
IBM Consulting, Keyfactor, Quantinuum and Thales are pooling their respective resources to provide enterprises with unified post-quantum cryptography (PQC) technology and services with the new Quantum-Safe 360 Alliance.
Chainguard is among the fastest-growing cybersecurity unicorns. Co-founder and CEO Dan Lorenc and newly appointed CISO Quincy Castro share their ambitious roadmap to expand its secure-by-default libraries to include Python, Java and a new Linux distro.
Minimal, Hardened & Updated Daily: The New Standard for Secure Containers
Chainguard provides DevSecOps teams with a library of "secure-by-default" container images so that they don't have to worry about software supply chain vulnerabilities. The startup is expanding its fo...
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August 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Chainguard is among the fastest-growing cybersecurity unicorns. Co-founder and CEO Dan Lorenc and newly appointed CISO Quincy Castro share their ambitious roadmap to expand its secure-by-default libraries to include Python, Java and a new Linux distro.
LevelBlue, the cybersecurity services business spun out of AT&T last year, announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Trustwave from The Chertoff Group-sponsored MC2 Security Fund for an undisclosed amount.
LevelBlue Acquires Trustwave, Forms World's Largest Independent MSSP
As the largest managed security services provider, the combined entity will offer cyber consulting, managed detection and response, and incident response services.
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July 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
LevelBlue, the cybersecurity services business spun out of AT&T last year, announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Trustwave from The Chertoff Group-sponsored MC2 Security Fund for an undisclosed amount.
IBM has plans to integrate its watsonx.governance and Guardium AI Security offerings to help organizations integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their daily operations and to get security and governance teams on the same page.
IBM Pushes for More Collaboration Between Security, Governance
IBM is integrating its governance and AI security tools to address the risks associated with the AI adoption boom.
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June 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
IBM has plans to integrate its watsonx.governance and Guardium AI Security offerings to help organizations integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into their daily operations and to get security and governance teams on the same page.
SIEM platform provider Securonix has acquired ThreatQuotient
to strengthen its breach detection and incident and response capabilities.
to strengthen its breach detection and incident and response capabilities.
Securonix Acquires Threat Intelligence Firm ThreatQuotient
The deal will combine Securonix's security information and event management (SIEM) platform with ThreatQuotient's threat detection and incident response (TDIR) offering to build an all-in-one security...
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June 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
SIEM platform provider Securonix has acquired ThreatQuotient
to strengthen its breach detection and incident and response capabilities.
to strengthen its breach detection and incident and response capabilities.
Apex Security will enhance Tenable's AI Aware by mitigating the threats and risks it finds, establishing best practices for AI security, and enforcing existing security policies.
Tenable to Acquire AI Security Startup Apex
Apex will enhance Tenable's AI Aware tool by mitigating the threats of AI applications and tools not governed by organizations, while enforcing existing security policies.
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June 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Apex Security will enhance Tenable's AI Aware by mitigating the threats and risks it finds, establishing best practices for AI security, and enforcing existing security policies.
Microsoft's David Weston describes the new Administrator Protection feature it plans to roll out as the most significant architectural Windows security change in a generation. www.darkreading.com/endpoint-sec...
Microsoft Readies Administrator Protection Option for Windows 11
Microsoft's David Weston describes the new feature as the most significant architectural Windows security change in a generation.
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May 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Microsoft's David Weston describes the new Administrator Protection feature it plans to roll out as the most significant architectural Windows security change in a generation. www.darkreading.com/endpoint-sec...
Among the new security capabilities that use agentic AI announced by Cisco at the RSA conference this week
Instant Attack Verification uses agentic AI to initiate and process incident investigations autonomously.
Instant Attack Verification uses agentic AI to initiate and process incident investigations autonomously.
Cisco Boosts XDR Platform, Splunk With Agentic AI
Cisco joins the agentic AI wave with the introduction of advanced LLMs to autonomously verify and investigate attacks.
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May 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Among the new security capabilities that use agentic AI announced by Cisco at the RSA conference this week
Instant Attack Verification uses agentic AI to initiate and process incident investigations autonomously.
Instant Attack Verification uses agentic AI to initiate and process incident investigations autonomously.
Palo Alto Networks has begun rolling out Cortex Cloud, the outgrowth of its efforts to provide a unified cloud security platform with automation and real-time detection and response capabilities for security operations centers (SOCs). www.darkreading.com/cloud-securi...
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April 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Palo Alto Networks has begun rolling out Cortex Cloud, the outgrowth of its efforts to provide a unified cloud security platform with automation and real-time detection and response capabilities for security operations centers (SOCs). www.darkreading.com/cloud-securi...
New Google Workspace features will make it easier for enterprise customers to implement end-to-end encryption within Gmail.
Google Brings End-to-End Encryption to Gmail
The new Google Workspace features will make it easier for enterprise customers to implement end-to-end encryption within Gmail.
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April 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
New Google Workspace features will make it easier for enterprise customers to implement end-to-end encryption within Gmail.
Microsoft is adding agentic AI capabilities to its Security Copilot, enabling the digital assistant to offload and automate specific processes now performed by security teams, such as triaging phishing alerts and vetting and remediating threats.
Microsoft Gives Security Copilot Some Autonomy
New agentic AI capabilities in Microsoft Security Copilot will allow agents to triage threats and provide recommendations.
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March 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Microsoft is adding agentic AI capabilities to its Security Copilot, enabling the digital assistant to offload and automate specific processes now performed by security teams, such as triaging phishing alerts and vetting and remediating threats.
HP previewed enterprise and professional-grade printers resistant to quantum attacks at the company's annual Amplify partner conference in Nashville, Tenn. this week. The upgraded versions of the printers, which support the NIST PQC standards approved last year, are slated to arrive this fall.
HP Brings Quantum-Safe Encryption to Printers
Starting this fall, HP's 8000 Series enterprise and commercial printers, which include Color LaserJet Enterprise MFP 8801, Mono MFP 8601, and LaserJet Pro Mono SFP 8501, will feature new quantum ASICs...
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March 21, 2025 at 7:34 PM
HP previewed enterprise and professional-grade printers resistant to quantum attacks at the company's annual Amplify partner conference in Nashville, Tenn. this week. The upgraded versions of the printers, which support the NIST PQC standards approved last year, are slated to arrive this fall.
At F5 AppWorld, the F5 Application Delivery Controller and Security Platform was launched. It combines BIG-IP, NGINX and Distributed Cloud Services and new AI Gateway and AI Assistants.
F5 Integrates API Security and Networking to Address AI Onslaught
The new The F5 Application Delivery Controller and Security Platform combines BIG-IP, NGNIX and Distributed Cloud Services and new AI Gateway and AI Assistants.
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March 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
At F5 AppWorld, the F5 Application Delivery Controller and Security Platform was launched. It combines BIG-IP, NGINX and Distributed Cloud Services and new AI Gateway and AI Assistants.
Operational technology (OT) exposure management provider Armis has acquired OTORIO.
Armis Acquires Otorio to Expand OT Exposure Management Platform
Armis will integrate Otorio's Titan platform with its cloud-based Centrix, bringing an on-premises option to the cloud-only offering.
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March 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Operational technology (OT) exposure management provider Armis has acquired OTORIO.
Google revealed its roadmap for implementing the National Institute for Science and Technology Standards’ (NIST’s) new post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards with the addition of quantum-resistant digital signature support to its Cloud Key Management Service (KMS).
Google Adds Quantum-Resistant Digital Signatures to Cloud KMS
The new Cloud Key Management Service is part of Google’s new roadmap for implementing the new NIST-based post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards.
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February 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Google revealed its roadmap for implementing the National Institute for Science and Technology Standards’ (NIST’s) new post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards with the addition of quantum-resistant digital signature support to its Cloud Key Management Service (KMS).
Tenable is poised to fill significant gaps in its exposure management platform with its agreement to acquire Vulcan Cyber.
Tenable to Acquire Vulcan Cyber to Boost Exposure Management Focus
The deal, expected to close this quarter, will give Tenable One Exposure Management much-needed integration with over 100 third-party security tools and platforms.
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February 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Tenable is poised to fill significant gaps in its exposure management platform with its agreement to acquire Vulcan Cyber.
A spike in activity by the group, known as Famous Chollima, was the impetus for the launch of CrowdStrike's Insider Risk Service, a set of professional services for detecting rogue IT workers and improving hiring practices. www.darkreading.com/insider-thre...
CrowdStrike Highlights Magnitude of Insider Risk
The impetus for CrowdStrike's new professional services came from last year's Famous Chollima threat actors, which used fake IT workers to infiltrate organizations and steal data.
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January 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A spike in activity by the group, known as Famous Chollima, was the impetus for the launch of CrowdStrike's Insider Risk Service, a set of professional services for detecting rogue IT workers and improving hiring practices. www.darkreading.com/insider-thre...
Cisco AI Defense, a new offering that will be available in March, was introduced last week. It is designed to provide automated model verification at that scale. www.darkreading.com/cloud-securi...
Cisco Previews AI Defenses to Cloud Security Platform
Set for release in March, Cisco AI Defense will provide algorithmic red teaming of large language models with technology that came over as part of the Robust Intelligence acquisition last year.
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January 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Cisco AI Defense, a new offering that will be available in March, was introduced last week. It is designed to provide automated model verification at that scale. www.darkreading.com/cloud-securi...
1Password has acquired software-as-a-service (SaaS) access management provider Trelica -- the latest move in a race to broaden the scope and functionality of password managers beyond securely storing user credentials.
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1Password's Trelica Buy Part of Broader Shadow IT Play
The acquisition accelerates 1Password's ongoing efforts to expand the role of the password manager with secure SaaS management.
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January 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
1Password has acquired software-as-a-service (SaaS) access management provider Trelica -- the latest move in a race to broaden the scope and functionality of password managers beyond securely storing user credentials.
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Whatever holiday you celebrate, may it be merry and happy!
December 25, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Whatever holiday you celebrate, may it be merry and happy!