CrowdStrike is in talks to acquire Houston-based patch management and vulnerability remediation startup Action1 for close to $1 billion, co-founder and CEO Alex Vovk told employees in an email Wednesday. This would be the largest acquisition in the endpoint security vendor's history.
Aftin Ross, deputy director of the Office of Readiness and Response at FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, discusses the latest medical device cybersecurity regulations, industry collaboration and manufacturers' efforts to address vulnerabilities and ensure patient safety.
Software used to manage a fifth of the world's solar electricity contained flaws enabling full access to attackers, risking grid overloads and blackouts. Solar power accounts for a sliver of overall U.S. electricity generation but will make up half of domestic electricity generation by 2050.
Abnormal Security has raised $250 million in a Series D round led by Wellington Management, aiming to expand its AI-driven human behavior security platform globally. The funds will support new product development, international market entry, and preparations for a future IPO.
ISMG's Healthcare Cybersecurity Summit explored emerging trends and best practices in healthcare cybersecurity, driving conversations around securing patient data and ensuring seamless healthcare system operations amid escalating cyber incidents and technological dependencies.
Vectra AI CEO Hitesh Sheth explores the dual nature of AI in cybersecurity, highlighting its potential as both a productivity tool and an attack vector. Sheth discusses the importance of integrating AI security measures to safeguard large language models and protect against emerging threats.
Hundreds of laptop and server models from mainstream manufacturers are at risk of hacking that bypasses protections meant to ensure only trusted software can load during computer bootup, warn researchers from California supply chain startup Binarly.
In the latest weekly update, ISMG editors discussed the massive CrowdStrike IT outage that crashed 8.5 million Windows systems and severely affected the healthcare, finance and transportation sectors. Here's what you need to know one week later about the recovery, impact and lessons learned.
CrowdStrike, in a preliminary report, has blamed internal testing problems for failing to prevent the faulty "rapid content update" that caused worldwide disruption on Friday. The cybersecurity vendor has promised to refine its testing and deployment processes to avoid any repeats.
CrowdStrike must enhance testing and validation procedures and address deficiencies in its current quality assurance processes to minimize attrition. CrowdStrike should conduct a technical retrospective to understand the root cause of the faulty software content update and make necessary changes.
Global CIOs said the fallout from the CrowdStrike outage could have been mitigated by investing in comprehensive data resilience that can help restore corrupted data through orchestrated recovery. It can help recover from disasters such as ransomware, data corruption and catastrophic events.
In this special edition of the ISMG Editors' Panel, CyberEd Board member Ian Thornton-Trump joined editors to discuss the fallout from the massive CrowdStrike IT outage, the reaction from the tech industry and how we can learn from the incident and create more resilient operations.
The interconnectedness of medical devices, which generate data that can be distributed to multiple systems that are often managed by different policies, presents privacy concerns that device manufacturers must address, said Adam Hesse, CEO of Full Spectrum.
A new artificial intelligence-based protection system developed by the German government-funded SecDER project is revolutionizing the security of virtual power plants by detecting cyberattacks and predicting failures, according to Fraunhofer SIT Institute Darmstadt.
Kaspersky will cease operations in the United States a month after the Biden administration banned the Russian cybersecurity vendor from selling software in the country. The Moscow-based firm said it will eliminate U.S.-based positions - which today number less than 50 - as it curtails operations.
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