Jim Masters

Griffith

Featured in: Favicon

msspalert.com

Articles

SecurityBridge Launches AI-Powered Tool to Analyze ABAP Code Vulnerabilities

1 week ago | msspalert.com | Suparna Chawla Bhasin |Jim Masters

SecurityBridge has introduced a new AI-powered Code Vulnerability Analyzer (CVA) aimed at helping SAP developers and security teams address risks in custom ABAP code more effectively. The tool is part of the company's broader SAP-native cybersecurity platform and reflects a growing demand for automation in enterprise security environments. The CVA brings two key features into focus.
Forescout Brings Cloud-Native Visibility to Enterprise Networks with eyeScope

2 weeks ago | msspalert.com | Suparna Chawla Bhasin |Jim Masters

Forescout has expanded its 4D Platform with the launch of eyeScope, a cloud-native visibility and monitoring solution built to provide real-time insights into every device connected to an enterprise network. From managed and unmanaged endpoints to agentless devices, eyeScope offers centralized asset intelligence that helps IT and security teams identify blind spots and respond faster to risks. This release arrives at a critical moment.
Tenable CEO Amit Yoran Dies, Noted for Launching MSSP Riptech in 1998

Jan 7, 2025 | msspalert.com | Jim Masters |D. Howard Kass

The cybersecurity community has been mourning the passing of Amit Yoran, chairman and CEO of Tenable Holdings, who with his brother Elad in 1998 launched Riptech, the first commercially-available MSSP, SC Media reports. Yoran died Jan. 3 at the age of 54. Tenable, based in Columbia, Maryland, issued a press release on Saturday that said Yoran passed away unexpectedly. He was battling cancer.
Reducing Alert Fatigue by Streamlining SOC Processes

Nov 27, 2024 | msspalert.com | Jeffrey Burt |Jim Masters |Jessica C. Davis

Guest blog courtesy of LevelBlue and written by Katrina Thompson. The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. LevelBlue does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. We wanted to know what was going on within our vast networks; modern tools have made it possible for us to know too much. Some data is good, so petabytes of data is better, right?
SEC SolarWinds Fines a Warning to Organizations, MSSPs

Oct 24, 2024 | msspalert.com | Jeffrey Burt |Jim Masters

Reports began circulating earlier this year that federal regulators were looking into the behavior of some of the victim organizations of the high-profile SolarWinds data breach to see if what they disclosed to investors aligned with what they knew internally.
ICS/OT Incident Detection Accelerates, But Response Gaps Remain

Oct 21, 2024 | msspalert.com | Laura French |Jim Masters

Industrial control system and operational technology environment compromise have been identified in less than a day by almost 60% of critical infrastructure sector organizations this year, which is a significant improvement from the same rate of respondents discovering such compromise between two and seven days in 2019, reports SecurityWeek.
What to Know About Cyber Insurance and Warranties

Oct 16, 2024 | msspalert.com | Laura French |Jessica C. Davis |Jim Masters

MSSP Alert Live 2024's second day of sessions kicked off with a keynote panel on "The State of Cybersecurity Insurance and Warranties (and What's the Difference?)," providing key insights on different types of breach coverage and what MSPs, MSSPs and their customers can expect when shopping for policies in 2024 and 2025.
Beggs Says In Crisis, Communication is Key

Oct 15, 2024 | msspalert.com | Laura French |Jim Masters |Jessica C. Davis

ConnectWise CISO Patrick Beggs presented MSSP Alert Live 2024's opening keynote Tuesday morning, walking attendees through the company's response to its ScreenConnect vulnerability crisis.
Number of Ransomware Claims is Down, but Losses are Up

Oct 10, 2024 | msspalert.com | Jeffrey Burt |Laura French |Jessica C. Davis |Jim Masters

For cyber insurance firm Coalition, there was some good news in the first half of the year, with the number of claims filed by companies attacked by ransomware groups declining slightly year-over-year. However, that was offset by a sharp spike in the average loss companies that were attacked took.
Hackers Using Phishing, BEC to Steal Cloud Credentials

Oct 3, 2024 | msspalert.com | Jeffrey Burt |Jim Masters

Stolen credentials continue to be 'coin of the realm' for threat groups targeting cloud environments, and the range of tactics they use to get them - from phishing and business email compromise (BEC) campaigns to keylogging and brute force - prove that out. Also high on the list of tools is infostealer malware that is specifically designed to harvest cloud platform and services credentials, according to IBM's X-Force threat intelligence unit.