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IBM: Enterprises lose an average of $4M per data breach
The rapid increase in the volume and sophistication of cyberattacks is starting to take its toll on organizations’ bottom line. According to a new study conducted by the Ponemon Institute on behalf of IBM Corp., the average cost of data breaches has increased by nearly 30 percent over the past two years to $4 million. ...
Developer-friendly log cruncher Loggly nabs $11M from investors
The 12-month period through March saw Loggly Inc. double both its total user count and the number of paying customers subscribed to its namesake service, momentum that CEO Charlie Oppenheimer is determined to maintain. As part of the effort, the startup this morning raised an additional $11.5 million in funding from True Ventures and a number ...
VMware buys network automation startup Arkin to boost SDN push
While it may be grabbing all the headlines, Microsoft Corp.’s purchase of LinkedIn Inc. for $26 billion today isn’t the only new update from the tech industry’s mergers and acquisitions scene. This morning saw VMware Inc. join the fray as well by scooping up Arkin Net Inc., a low-key data center automation specalist based in ...
Preempt exits stealth to redefine the firewall
A traditional firewall can be configured to block a wide variety of malware and access control violations, but a threat not included on its blacklist is practically guaranteed to slip through the cracks. This inflexibility is proving to be a major issue at a time when hackers are constantly changing up their attack methods. Fortunately, a ...
What you missed in Big Data: Open-source momentum
Following a series of contributions to the machine learning community from its fellow web giants, LinkedIn Inc. decided to join the fray too last week and open-source one of its algorithm development tools. Dubbed Photon ML, the framework is used by the social networking giant’s engineers to personalize members’ news feeds. The ability to customize ...
What you missed in Cloud: Security takes center stage
The top cloud providers go through great lengths to ensure that the user data stored on their infrastructure is secure, but for enterprises with strict compliance requirements, the built-in controls are often insufficient. The gap is being filled by vendors like Egnyte Inc., which last week introduced a tool aimed at preventing unauthorized access to files kept ...
Qadium raises $20M to map out the Internet of Things
While other enterprise search providers make their living by helping organizations navigate internal records or find information about the competition, Qadium Inc. has its crawlers set on an entirely different target: Connected devices. The startup is assembling an index of all the Internet-connected endpoints on the planet in a grandiose effort that received a $20 ...
Carbon Black launches a new kind of threat intelligence network
Security professionals are cooperating more closely than ever in the fight against hacking. Key industries such as finance and retail now have dedicated threat intelligence networks for sharing data about attacks, while tech firms like Facebook Inc. operate similar communities that span multiple verticals. But Carbon Black Inc. believes that the market still has room ...
HPE launches new converged appliances for crunching IoT data
Today, organizations must send much of the machine-generated data they collect at the edge of the network to a central backend environment for processing. But the situation is changing rapidly thanks to the efforts of vendors like Hewlett Packard Enterprise. At its Discover summit this week, the company introduced a pair of converged appliances that ...
HPE and GE join forces in Internet of Things push
A month after launching a platform for processing machine-generated data, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is teaming up with General Electric Co. to promote its competing Predix system. The unexpected alliance was announced at the data center giant’s Discover summit in Las Vegas today and stands to provide a major competitive boost for both vendors. For HPE, the ...