Tag Archive for: adds

NetAbstraction Adds Two Cyber Security Veterans to Advisory Board |

/in


CHANTILLY, Va., July 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — NetAbstraction, the security by obfuscation company, today announced that Jenny Menna, Vice President, Business Cybersecurity Risk at Humana, and Rob Truesdell, Senior Director of Product Management for Splunk have joined its Board of Advisors. Both will help shape the company’s product, technology and corporate strategy.

“Jenny and Rob bring decades of cyber security experience in government, healthcare, financial services and the vendor community to our board of advisors,” said Gordon Lawson, CEO of NetAbstraction. “Their diverse experience as practitioners and technology providers, as well as their industry relationships, will help NetAbstraction accelerate adoption for our obfuscation technology in key markets.”

Jenny Menna is Vice President, Business Cybersecurity Risk at Fortune 500 healthcare provider Humana. Previously she served as the Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for U.S. Bank. She has also held a variety of senior cybersecurity leadership positions in the Department of Homeland Security. Her industry leadership roles include the FS-ISAC Board of Directors, the Global Cybersecurity Alliance Strategic Advisory Committee, the Financial Top Level Domain Board of Directors, the Risk Committee of Early Warning Services, and the National Cybersecurity Alliance Board of Directors. She is a Visiting Fellow at George Mason University’s National Security Institute.

“Organizations face increasingly sophisticated threats targeting their employees and infrastructure,” said Jenny Menna. “NetAbstraction provides a veil of secrecy that prevents attackers from monitoring their activities and targeting their footprint. I look forward to working with the company to grow the market for this exciting new approach to cyber security.”

Rob Truesdell has been a leader in the cybersecurity space for over 15 years specializing in early stage and high growth products. He currently leads product direction and execution for the cloud-based security operations products at Splunk. Previously, Rob led product management for the award winning Phantom Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform…

Source…

Y Soft adds to identity verification solution portfolio

/in


Y Soft is adding to its portfolio of identity verification solutions with the release of a new secure identity verification for networked printers.

The Y Soft MFX Mobile Reader joins the portfolio of USB readers designed to provide identity verification in what the company describes as a ‘secure, accurate, and convenient’ way.

This is particularly important following COVID-19 and a refreshed interest from businesses that focuses on keeping employees safe at the office.

Y Soft chief of products Wouter Koelewijn says the reader “addresses the need for better physical safety by letting their employees use their mobile devices to identify themselves instead of physically touching the networked printer.”

Furthermore, employees’ biometric data is only stored on their smartphones and not on corporate networks, which means there is no need to comply with data protection regulations such as the GDPR.

“Unlike an identity card, a misplaced or stolen smartphone can’t be used to access users’ print jobs since the phone’s native security features (PIN, fingerprint, facial recognition) act as the second-factor authentication,” the company explains.

The USB reader comprises the reader, digital credentials, and a mobile app.  

YSoft MFX Mobile Reader accurately reads the user’s credentials from the user’s mobile phone. Employees only need to touch their own mobile phones to print all the jobs in their print queue, eliminating the need to touch the networked printer and reducing the number of times the multifunction device (MFD) must be wiped down per day. MFX Mobile Reader also supports the use of identity cards supporting over 100 access card technologies.

YSoft Connect ID provides an enrolment process, and the credentials can be sent electronically to each user. The YSoft Mobile Connect app stores the digital credentials and uses those credentials to securely authenticate the user on any printer equipped with the MFX Mobile Reader. This provides secure two-factor authentication, and the user’s private data is stored only on their personal device.

With the YSoft Mobile Connect mobile app (Android or iOS), users can authenticate access to print management…

Source…

Nutanix Adds Additional Ransomware Protections

/in


by Sharon Florentine • Feb 24, 2021

Nutanix has added additional ransomware protections to its cloud platform to help enterprises prevent, detect and recover from ransomware attacks across multiple cloud environments, according to a statement from the company.

These protections, available now to partners and customers, are built in to the Nutanix stack and include new threat monitoring and detection, as well as more granular data replication and access controls, according to the statement.

Nutanix Adds Additional Ransomware Protections

The Nutanix cloud platform, via the Flow Security Central feature of Nutanix Flow, now offers anomaly detection based on machine learning (ML) and IP reputation services, according to the company. Flow Security Central helps identify known attack vectors, including potential ransomware, at the network level before it can reach the application and data layers. Specifically, Flow Security Central now monitors networks for anomalies, malicious behavior and common network attacks. Flow Security Central also monitors endpoints to identify traffic from suspicious locations, according to the statement.

The Nutanix cloud platform now also includes native ransomware detection for file storage services within Nutanix Files. File analytics now detects abnormal and suspicious access patterns and identifies known ransomware signatures to block data access in real-time, the company said. In addition, File analytics also identifies misconfigurations and allows for immutable snapshots capabilities, according to the statement.

New features within the Nutanix Objects storage solution also protect application data, according to the statement. Objects includes more granular permissions to access object data for primary and secondary storage and offers the ability to configure write once, read many (WORM) policies for individual files and objects to guard against unauthorized deletion or encryption of data, according to the statement. Additionally, Objects’ locking features meet the non-rewritable and non-erasable storage requirements for electronic records as specified under the relevant SEC, FINRA, and CFTC regulations, according to the…

Source…

Google adds Password Checkup support to Android autofill

/in


Google adds Password Checkup support to Android autofill

Google is adding support for the Password Checkup service to Android applications through the passwords autofill feature to warn users if their saved passwords have been compromised or leaked in data breaches.

The company initially released the Password Checkup Chrome extension in February 2019 to alert users when their saved logins are weak or affected by a breach.

Password Checkup was later added to the Google Password Manager to help you quickly check if your passwords are secure straight from in your Google Account.

Google is now adding it to the Android ‘Autofill with Google’ feature which fills out forms automatically with saved info, including credentials, addresses, or payment info.

“Whenever you fill or save credentials into an app, we’ll check those credentials against a list of known compromised credentials and alert you if your password has been compromised,” Arvind Kumar Sugumar, Android team Software Engineer, explained.

“The prompt can also take you to your Password Manager page, where you can do a comprehensive review of your saved passwords.”

Autofill for Google password checkup warning
Autofill for Google password checkup warning (Google)

Autofill with Google only checks the security of credentials you’ve already saved into your Google account or when you are asked to save it by Android and you accept.

Once saved, the Password Checkup feature will check if the credentials you want to fill into a form have been compromised in any data breaches tracked by Google.

However, the checking process is secure given that only hashes are used to check against a breach database, with only known breached credentials with the same first two has bytes being used for the actual check.

The password check is performed locally using this limited set of matching breached credentials. No unencrypted credential information is exchanged between your device and Google’s servers throughout this checking process.

To toggle on Autofill with Google in Android apps on devices running Android 9 and later, you have to follow the instructions below:

  1. Open your phone’s Settings app
  2. Tap System > Languages & input > Advanced
  3. Tap Autofill service
  4. Tap Google to make sure the setting is enabled

Source…