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Firefox 57 “Quantum” Released – 2x Faster Web Browser

It is time to give Firefox another chance. The Mozilla Foundation today announced the release of its much awaited Firefox 57, aka Quantum web browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which claims to defeat Google’s Chrome. It is fast. Really fast. Firefox 57 …
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IBM’s Watson teams up with its SIEM platform for smarter, faster event detection

San Francisco — IBM’s Watson supercomputer can now consult with the company’s security information and event management (SIEM) platform to deliver well researched responses to security events and do so much faster than a person.

Called IBM Q Radar with Watson, the new offering is the introduction of IBM’s push for a cognitive security operations center (SOC) that will be built around Watson contributing to decisions made in tandem with other security products from the vendor. IBM announced the service at the RSA Conference 2017.

In the case of Q Radar, when the SIEM catches a security event, human security analysts can choose to enlist Watson’s help analyzing the event to determine whether it fits into a known pattern of threat and put it a broader context, IBM says.

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EnerBank USA Launches Secure Mobile Loan App to Offer Even Greater Convenience and Faster Credit Decision Times – Digital Journal

EnerBank USA Launches Secure Mobile Loan App to Offer Even Greater Convenience and Faster Credit Decision Times
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ORLANDO, Fla.–(Business Wire)–EnerBank USA launched a mobile loan app to provide another convenient—and highly secure—choice in applying for its myriad of home improvement loans. The EnerBank Mobile App, available for iOS and Android devices …

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Cisco seeks faster time to discovery for breaches, compromises

Cisco has announced security upgrades to cut the time compromises go unnoticed on endpoints, giving attackers less time to do damage if they get past preventive security measures.

Unveiled at the Cisco Partner Summit this week, the new AMP for Endpoints comes with a lightweight agent to gather data that is analyzed in the Cisco AMP cloud. This lifts the processing burden from customers’ infrastructure.

And the platform now includes an agentless feature for devices that can’t take an agent, such as visitors’ laptops.

In addition to the cloud version, the analytics part of the platform can also be purchased for deployment on customer premises in their own private clouds. Detection, analysis and recommended response are handled in the cloud and pushed to the endpoints.

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