Cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz is contemplating a potential bid to acquire cybersecurity firm SentinelOne. This move would mark a significant departure from the norm for a startup, as it involves acquiring a listed company with a market valuation of nearly $4.9 billion, Bloomberg reported Friday (Aug. 25). Reached by...
A cross-section of European financial powerhouses – including members of the Euro Cyber Resilience Board for pan-European Financial Infrastructures (ECRB), chaired by the European Central Bank (ECB) – have joined forces to launch a sharing initiative for cybersecurity threat information, ECRB announced on Thursday (Feb....
U.S. regulators are saying cyberattacks pose the greatest risk to U.S. banks in upcoming years, but the regulation and testing processes are convoluted and complicated for institutions in both spaces to assess, according to a report by the Financial Times. Several regulators want to come...
Worldwide spending on information technology is expected to reach about $4 trillion in 2019, according to a report by CNBC. Those numbers come from global research and advisory firm Gartner, which also predicts that companies will spend $125 billion on cybersecurity alone in 2019. The...
June 19, 2018
The time for “wait and see” is running out when it comes to new European privacy regulations. Soon enough, the financial and consumer impacts of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will become clear enough that companies that took a laggard’s approach may start to feel significant pain. That was among the main messages offered […]
October 11, 2023
Internet companies Google, Amazon and Cloudflare have successfully defended against the largest-known denial-of-service attack on the internet, raising concerns about a new technique that could potentially cause widespread disruption. Denial-of-service attacks involve overwhelming targeted servers with a flood of bogus requests for data, rendering it impossible for legitimate web traffic to reach its destination. These attacks have become more […]
August 25, 2023
Cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz is contemplating a potential bid to acquire cybersecurity firm SentinelOne. This move would mark a significant departure from the norm for a startup, as it involves acquiring a...
February 27, 2020
A cross-section of European financial powerhouses – including members of the Euro Cyber Resilience Board for pan-European Financial Infrastructures (ECRB), chaired by the European Central Bank (ECB) – have joined...
June 17, 2019
U.S. regulators are saying cyberattacks pose the greatest risk to U.S. banks in upcoming years, but the regulation and testing processes are convoluted and complicated for institutions in both spaces...
