Daily Insider Threat News – August 30, 2017

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  1. Forcepoint Buys Analytics Firm RedOwl in Human-Focused Security Push

     GovConWire
     Forcepoint added that the combination of the company’s data loss prevention and Insider Threat offerings and the RedOwl UEBA platform will offer a …

  2. Forcepoint’s RedOwl acquisition paves way for ‘human-centric’ security

     SecurityBrief Australia
     Heath Thompson, Forcepoint’s senior VP of its Data and Insider Threat Security business says that the combination of threat intelligence and UEBA is …

  3. CyberArk and Jenkins Power Secure, High Velocity DevOps Environments

     Business Wire (press release)
     … organizations can isolate, control and monitor user access and activity on the Jenkins console to prevent against insider threats or external attacks.

  4. Adopting Simple Cyber Hygiene Key to Stop Breaches: VMware CEO

     News18
     It plans to integrate with IBM’s “QRadar” security analytics platform, enabling security teams respond to advanced and insider threats that cut across …

  5. SecureAuth Continues to Raise the Bar on Passwordless Authentication with New Access Control …

     GlobeNewswire (press release)
     In the enterprise, complex password requirements lead to poor security practices, such as writing passwords down, fueling insider threats, and reusing …

  6. Will GDPR protect individuals’ privacy or lead to more hacks?

     CSO Online
     … way to do this effectively is to monitor system usage at a detailed level to prevent threats coming in and data illegally flowing out (the insider threat).

  7. Enterprise security: The hidden perils of ‘unguarded talk’

     SecurityBrief NZ
     … provides information that can be used to adapt defences such as addressing vulnerabilities, creating blacklists, or even identifying an insider threat.

  8. Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLK) Closed 7.4% Above Its 50 Day Average

     Modern Readers
     In addition, the Company offers user behavioral analytics to help detect, respond to and mitigate advanced, hidden and insider threats.
     Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLK) Closed Higher Than Its 50 Day Average – Finance Daily

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  9. PreVeil Selects Warner Communications as Agency of Record

     IT Business Net (press release)
     No one person within an enterprise – whether they’re hacked from the outside, or are themselves an insider threat– can bring the entire business down …

  10. Ariel Investments Has Lowered Morgan Stanley (MS) Stake; Varonis Systems (VRNS) Sellers …

      Herald KS
      Varonis Systems, Inc. provides a solutions that protect data from insider threats and cyberattacks. The company has market cap of $1.05 billion.