Every business day, MSSP Alert delivers this fast lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across the security services provider’s managed ecosystem.
- The content: Written for MSSPs, SOC as a Service (SOCaaS), Managed Detection and Response (MDR), eXtended Detection and Response (XDR), threat hunters and MSP security providers – and those who need to partner with such companies.
- Frequency and Format: Every business morning. Usually one or two sentences for each item below.
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A. Today MSSP, MDR, XDR and Cybersecurity Market News
1. Get to Know ConnectWise IT Nation Secure: The MSSP Alert will be on-site at the conference. If you would like to meet, please email me ([email protected]).
2. Talent – MSSP: Spark New Zealand has hired NTT veteran Patric Balmer as its new head for managed security services
3. Races – Bug Bounty Hunting: completely 96% of ethical hackers want to devote more time to bug bounty hunting in the future, and 66% consider it a full-time career, according to the second annual Ethical Hacker Insights Report from Intigriti.
4. Microsoft Weaknesses: Microsoft issued CVE-2022-30190 regarding the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT) on Windows vulnerabilities.
5. Google Chrome Security: BlackBerry launched Chrome Enterprise Management with BlackBerry UEM, which provides Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) support for devices running Google Chrome OS and the Chrome browser in businesses.
6. Suspected Verizon Data Violation: A hacker allegedly obtained a database that included the full names, email addresses, corporate ID numbers, and phone numbers of hundreds of Verizon employees, Motherboard reported.
7. Integration – ServiceNow Incident Response: JFrog has released new integrations for JFrog Xray with ServiceNow’s Lightstep Incident Response and Spoke products for IT Service Management. Available immediately, JFrog Xray’s integrations with ServiceNow provide “real-time insights into security vulnerabilities and compliance issues to quickly attract the necessary team members from across the organization for more immediate response and remediation, “JFrog insisted.
8. Funding and Incident Response: Launched Surefire Cyber as an incident response company to help cyber insurers, brokers, law firms, and the organizations they support to better manage cyber events such as ransomware, email compromises, and more. cybercrimes. The company also announced $ 10 million in Series A funding, led by Forgepoint Capital.
9. Funding – Risk Reduction: Seemplicity launched with $ 32 million in funding. Funding includes a $ 26 million Series A round led by Glilot Capital Partners through its early growth fund. The company had previously raised a $ 6 million seed round led by S Capital.
10. Funding – Cybersecurity Startups: SYN Ventures, a VC firm founded and led by former Fortune 500 CISO and C-level security leaders, has closed its $ 300 million Fund II. The closure is less than 12 months since launching its debut fund, and the company continues its focus on early -stage cybersecurity, industrial security, national defense, privacy, regulatory compliance, and data management startups, it said. SYN Ventures.
B. MSSP, MDR and Cybersecurity Virtual Events and Conference Calendar
- ConnectWise IT Nation Secure 2022 (June 6-8, Orlando, Florida)
- RSA Conference 2022 (June 6-9, San Francisco, California)
- Open XDR Summit 2022 (June 7-8, San Francisco, California)
- Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit 2022 (June 7-9, Maryland)
- Identiverse 2022 (June 21-24, Denver, Colorado)
- New: MSSP Alert Live (September 19-21, Washington, DC)
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