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Allied Universal nails assessment amid push to secure ports

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Allied Universal nails assessment amid push to secure ports

March 13, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor

IRVINE, Calif. — Allied Universal’s client, the Helen Delich Bently Port of Baltimore, has received a top U.S. Coast Guard security assessment for the 15th consecutive year, a noteworthy accomplishment as the nation begins a push to better secure its ports.  In late February, the White House issued an executive order (E.O.) designed to strengthen its maritime cybersecurity, supply chains and industrial base, and improve onshore domestic manufacturing. The White House is putting...

Allied Universal, Cybersecurity, executive order (E.O.), guarding services, Security Systems News (SSN), Tracey Fuller, White House


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Monitoring Matters

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March 6, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor

The return of dreaded continuity. I swear that three is our lucky number and this will be the last time I discuss ransomware in this space, at least for a little while. BlackCat/ALPHV is apparently falling apart this week if you’ve been following that story closely. The official word is that they stole the $22 million payment from UnitedHealthcare and collectively ghosted the world. Which, you know, that money is kind of already stolen? I mean, that’s what blackmail basically is, guys....

ALPHV, Artificial Intelligence (AI), BlackCat, Cybersecurity, Ransomware, UnitedHealthcare


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Darktrace partners with Xage Security

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Darktrace partners with Xage Security

March 4, 2024SSN Staff

CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom – Cybersecurity artificial intelligence (AI) developer Darktrace, and Xage Security, a provider of zero trust cybersecurity solutions, have announced a new partnership. In a release, the companies revealed that the partnership combines Xage Security's zero trust protection with Darktrace's AI-powered anomaly-based threat detection. The integration reportedly makes it easy to identify and respond to breaches in progress at any stage in operational technology...

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cybersecurity, Darktrace, Denise Walter, Roman Arutyunov, Xage Security, zero trust


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Commend partners with SBA to enhance cybersecurity in product development

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Commend partners with SBA to enhance cybersecurity in product development

March 1, 2024SSN Staff

MAHWAH, N.J. – Security and communications provider Commend is celebrating what it calls a milestone following its collaboration with SBA Research on cybersecurity. Since March 2022, a joint research project has seen experts with both groups that had been focusing on the security-critical aspects of Commend’s software development. Their key objective the company said was centered around the ability to run rigorous systematic security analyses and tests already at the very earliest...

Cloud, Commend, Cybersecurity, Klaus Hirschegger, Michael Thalhammer, Reinhard Kugler, SBA Research


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Quorum Cyber Threat Intelligence Outlook 2024 Report analyzes tumultuous year

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Quorum Cyber Threat Intelligence Outlook 2024 Report analyzes tumultuous year

February 23, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor

EDINBURGH, Scotland – 2024 is set to be a year full of security landmark events and challenges. Looking ahead Quorum Cyber has released its "Threat Intelligence Outlook 2024" report to address these cyber threats. The in-depth report offers a strategic analysis of emerging cybersecurity threats, from malware and ransomware developments to geopolitical considerations and the outlook for 2024 global events. Among its topics are examining the “Big Four” nation-state...

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Craig Watt, Cybersecurity, Federico Charoksy, LockBit, malware, Quorum Cyber, Ransomware, Threat Intelligence


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Also Noted

Clint Sand joins SimSpace

February 22, 2024SSN Staff

BOSTON – SimSpace, a U.S.-based provider of high-fidelity cyber ranges, has announced Clint Sand as its new chief product officer (CPO), effective Feb. 21, 2024. The company reported that Sand will play an instrumental role in spearheading SimSpace’s product management, content, design, and platform engineering teams as the company adds further AI/ML-based capabilities to their technology. SimSpace said that Sand’s strategic appointment strengthens its executive leadership team...

Clint Sand, Cybersecurity, SimSpace, software as a service (SaaS), William Hutchison


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Administration announces initiative to bolster cybersecurity of U.S. ports

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Biden-Harris Administration announces initiative to bolster cybersecurity of U.S. ports

February 22, 2024SSN Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden-Harris Administration has announced it will issue an Executive Order to bolster the nation’s port security, alongside a series of additional actions it said will strengthen maritime cybersecurity, fortify supply chains, and strengthen the United States industrial base. The Administration also announced its intent to bring domestic onshore manufacturing capacity back to America as the result of an over $20 billion investment in U.S. port infrastructure under...

cyber threats, Cybersecurity, manufacturing, port security, President Biden, White House


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Milestone Systems joins CVE Program

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Milestone Systems joins CVE Program

February 13, 2024SSN Staff

COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Video technology provider Milestone Systems has partnered with the Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE) Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). The reported aim of the program is to find, describe, and catalog known cybersecurity issues.  Milestone said that organizations worldwide, working with the program, find and share these vulnerabilities, afterwards publishing CVE Records with clear details about the issues to help IT and cybersecurity experts talk...

Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE), CVE Numbering Authority (CNA), Cybersecurity, Milestone Systems, Thomas Jensen, video technology


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Blancco collaborates with Lenovo on Cybersecurity

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Blancco collaborates with Lenovo on cybersecurity

February 7, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor

AUSTIN, Texas, and LONDON – Blancco Technology Group, a data erasure and mobile lifecycle solutions provider, has announced a global collaboration with Lenovo. According to Blancco, its solution is a component of Lenovo’s ThinkShield security portfolio, and its data erasure provides enterprises with proven, audit-ready, and regulation-compliant data sanitization software and process workflows. The solution renders data permanently unrecoverable from active networks, endpoint...

Blancco Technology Group, Cybersecurity, data erasure, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), JIm Elder, Jon Mellon, Lenovo, Nima Baiati


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Mission Critical Partners Celebrates its 15th Anniversary

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Mission Critical Partners celebrates its 15th anniversary

February 2, 2024SSN Staff

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Mission Critical Partners (MCP) has announced the 15th anniversary of its founding as a firm providing consulting and managed services to public safety, justice, and government organizations. Since its 10th milestone anniversary, MCP said that it’s experienced impressive growth. Over the last five years, six acquisitions were made that greatly expanded the firm’s service portfolio and subject-matter expertise. Simultaneously, the firm’s roster of subject-matter...

Cybersecurity, Darrin Reilly, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mission Critical Partners (MCP), public safety


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