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Striim Launches Real-time Application Connector Suite on BigQuery Studio

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PALO ALTO, Calif., April 11, 2024 — Striim, Inc. is proud to showcase the new connectors for Google Cloud customers at Google Next in Las Vegas. With the recent launch of Striim Cloud for Application Integration, Striim has partnered closely with Google Cloud’s product team to ensure our 3 additional connectors are seamlessly integrated with BigQuery. Striim is excited to launch connectors for Stripe, Zendesk, and HubSpot as the first, with many more to follow.

“To combine contexts and deliver richer AI-based analytics, Striim is excited to expand its product offerings and commitment to BigQuery customers with the launch of our Striim Cloud for Application Integration product offering, which launched in Q1 2024,” stated Alok Pareek, Cofounder and Executive Vice President of Engineering and Products at Striim. “As a continuation of our close product integration and collaboration with Google Cloud, we are excited to announce these 3 new connectors for Stripe, Zendesk, and HubSpot at Google Cloud Next. This enables real-time delivery from cloud-native SaaS applications into BigQuery with powerful alerting, masking, transformation, and telemetry capabilities. The roadmap for 2024 will continue to build momentum as we launch more connectors each month and prioritize the connectors our customers use most often for mission-critical workloads.”

“Enterprises have an ever-increasing need for reliable solutions that can stream mission-critical data to BigQuery in real time,” said Yasmeen Ahmad, Managing Director, Data Analytics at Google Cloud. “With Striim Cloud for Application Integration, customers can easily integrate their data from ISV apps directly into BigQuery, reducing their time to insight so their operational and customer service teams can realize immediate impact from these insights instantly.”

Striim Cloud for Application Integration is built on a proven real-time streaming, scalable, and highly available Striim Cloud platform. As a Google Cloud native product, Striim Cloud can be used as a fully managed service removing the complexity of continuous data integration and empowering teams to focus on business-level initiatives without having…

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Google Chrome to get real-time phishing protection 

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Google will bring real-time malware protection and phishing protection to all Chrome users in an update later this month.

The update from Google is expected later this month and will come with an opt-in for enhanced browsing protection mode.

Currently the safe browsing standard uses a local list against which sites, downloads, and extensions are checked. This list is downloaded every 30 to 60 minutes from Google’s servers. However, with the update Google plans to switch to real-time checks against ist server-side list to keep up with malicious websites that surface and disappear in under 10 minutes.

This improved time is expected to block 25% more phishing attempts, Google shared in a blog post.

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The new capability will also be rolling out to Android later this month. Google says the feature uses encryption and other privacy enhancing techniques ensuring user privacy.

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Benefits of Real-Time Bot Detection

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For those unaware, the bot revolution is happening right before our eyes. In fact, nearly half of all internet traffic consists of bot traffic. While some of this traffic is considered good bot traffic – think useful bots like web crawlers or AI chatbots for customer service – much of this can be considered bad bot traffic. 

Many of these bad bots are on the hunt for vulnerabilities to exploit, which is why it is imperative that enterprises look to a bot management solution. That said, any bot management solution should prioritize bot detection in real time. After all, if you can’t detect bots first, how can you mitigate them before the damage is done?

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The rise of bad bots

Malicious bots have become the tool of choice for many cybercriminals. The growth of cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) offerings, in which cybercriminals can purchase malicious bots, is fueling their popularity. CaaS provides cybercriminals with sophisticated bots ready-made to commit fraud and other crimes. For instance, a cybercriminal can purchase a malicious bot or botnet for web scraping, distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) that overwhelm web servers, conduct account takeover (ATO) attacks, or send spam and phishing emails. 

Bots can also be used for inventory scraping or sniping attacks in which a cybercriminal uses bots to purchase a popular item – like sneakers, game systems, or concert tickets – and sell them for upcharge prices online. These instances can frustrate potential customers who have to pay more money for inventory that seems to get gobbled up before they have the chance to make their own purchase. Additionally, bots can be used to leave poor reviews of a company, create fake accounts, or impact conversations about an enterprise on social media. 

Regardless of use, all of these bad bot instances go beyond hurting an enterprise’s bottom line and have the potential to negatively impact an enterprise’s hard-earned brand reputation and…

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Using real-time data platforms to plug cybersecurity skills gap

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How can we use real-time data platforms to improve the cybersecurity skills gap crisis in government and the public sector?

There is a crisis in cybersecurity skills, and the public sector, including government agencies, will be feeling the cumulative impact this year.

A report by Ipsos for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport last May found that many UK businesses needed more staff with the technical, incident response, and governance skills needed to manage their cyber security. Given that the government has responsibility for securing all our critical national infrastructure and attempts to attract quality cybersecurity talent into the public sector in recent years have not reduced the skills gap, action needs to be taken now to withstand the growing threat landscape.

How common are security breaches in government?

Headlines relating to government security breaches seem to litter the media frequently. In November 2022, the FT reported that the data protection regulator reprimanded the Department for Education for giving improper access to identifying information on up to 28 million children; April 2022 saw 170 email addresses of customers inadvertently copied into an email by the UK Home Office’s visa service and the previous December the Cabinet Office was fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioners Office after the postal addresses of the 2020 New Year honours recipients leaked online.

The hand of malicious insiders seems to have been at work in at least two of these incidents, which reflects the dangers that lurk internally for many government departments. It’s why having strong internal security measures in place is so important and why the visibility of suspicious activity in real-time, or as it is occurring, is essential. If government security teams can create intelligent cyber threat metrics, capture and identify active cyber threats, and minimise false positives, they are better positioned to thwart attacks.

More data can translate into more threat insights

The proliferation of data is at the heart of both the problem and the solution when it comes to cybersecurity. With more real-time data at their disposal, the better-informed…

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