Get Permission
Merger and acquisition activity involving cybersecurity companies continued at a rapid pace in the last two weeks, with Accenture, Forcepoint, OneTrust and the Swedish IT consultancy firm Knowit AB all making acquisitions.
Professional services firm Accentureannounced April 29 it had entered into an agreement to acquire the managed security services provider Openminded.
During the first week of May, Forcepoint announced it had purchased the browser security company Cyberinc, OneTrust revealed its intention to acquire the third-party risk organization Shared Assessments and Knowit AB announced plans to acquire the cybersecurity consulting firm Cybercom.
Accenture Buying Openminded
Accenture s pending acquisition of Paris-based managed security services provider Openminded would be its second cybersecurity deal of the year. It purchased Real Protect in January
Incident Response Market to Witness Huge Growth by 2025 | Symantec, McAfee, IBM
iCrowd Newswire
The Latest Released Incident Response market study has evaluated the future growth potential of
Global
Incident Response market and provides information and useful stats on market structure and size. The report is intended to provide market intelligence and strategic insights to help decision makers take sound investment decisions and identify potential gaps and growth opportunities. Additionally, the report also identifies and analyses changing dynamics, emerging trends along with essential drivers, challenges, opportunities and restraints in Incident Response market. The study includes market share analysis and profiles of players such as Symantec (United States), McAfee (United States), IBM (United States), Cisco (United States), Dell (United States), Accenture (Ireland), FireEye (United States), Check Point Software Technologies (Israel), BAE Systems (United Kingdom), Rapid7 (Uni
LinkedIn
From heightened risks to increased regulations, senior leaders at all levels are pressured to improve their organizations risk management capabilities. But no one is showing them how - until now.
Learn the fundamentals of developing a risk management program from the man who wrote the book on the topic: Ron Ross, computer scientist for the National Institute of Standards and Technology. In an exclusive presentation, Ross, lead author of NIST Special Publication 800-37 - the bible of risk assessment and management - will share his unique insights on how to:
Understand the current cyber threats to all public and private sector organizations;
How Patched Android Chip Flaw Could Have Enabled Spying
Compliance
Compliance
Compliance
@prajeetspeaks) • May 7, 2021
(Photo: Shutterstock)
A severe vulnerability in a system on certain Qualcomm chips, which has been patched, potentially could have enabled attackers to remotely control Android smartphones, access users text messages and call histories and listen in on conversations, according to a new report from researchers at security company Check Point Software Technologies. We have no evidence the vulnerability is being exploited, the spokesperson says. For this vulnerability to even begin to work, a device would need to be severely compromised to start with, which would be a bigger problem.