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RiskSense lands $7M for assessment service

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RiskSense, software-as-a-service that evaluates the security of corporate networks and generates a risk score, has been self-financed since its launch last year, but now has harnessed venture funding to help boost its R&D and hire marketing and sales staff.

The $ 7 million funding round includes Paladin Capital Group, Sun Mountain Capital, EPIC Ventures, and other strategic and private investors.

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RiskSense CEO Srinivas Mukkamala

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Vulnerabilities on the decline, but risk assessment is often flawed, study says says

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Based on data gathered over the first six months of 2014, security researchers from IBM X-Force predict that the number of publicly reported vulnerabilities will drop to under 8,000 this year, a first since 2011.

While the majority of flaws disclosed so far fall into the medium-risk category, the IBM researchers said that the widely used system to rate their severity often fails to reflect the real risk they pose to users.

Over the first half of the year, the IBM X-Force team collected reports about 3,900 security vulnerabilities from advisories published by software vendors, security industry mailing lists and other sources. If vulnerability disclosures continue at the same rate, the number of flaws reported in 2014 will fall under 8,000, several hundred less than in each of the previous two years, the team said in a report released this week.

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Updated NIST Guide Provides Computer Security Assessment Procedures for … – Insurance News Net

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Updated NIST Guide Provides Computer Security Assessment Procedures for …
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WASHINGTON , Aug. 1 — The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology issued the following news: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued for public comment a draft update of its primary …

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Microsoft’s online safety assessment scores show failing grades globally

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On your PC, you know to keep your firewall on at all times, to keep your antivirus and antispyware software updated and to run them, and to keep automatic updates on. On your mobile device, these basics are similar, such as running a mobile anti-virus, installing software updates immediately upon release, and using a PIN or password to lock your device. These are foundational basics and may seem like…
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