Sophos Adds Team of MDR Experts in Germany, Expanding Global Footprint of Security Operations Specialists

Defenders Have Less Time to Defend; MDR Services Become Critical Cybersecurity Layer as Attacker Dwell Time Decreases, Says Sophos’ Annual Active Adversary Report

Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, and Cowbell, a leading provider of cyber insurance today announced they are expanding their partnership, adding a real-time attack surface intelligence feed from Qualys’ External Attack Surface Management (EASM) to assess customer cyber risk for cyber insurance purposes.

SentinelOne (NYSE: S), a global leader in autonomous security and pioneer in deep learning models and neural networks, plans to use the same technologies to defeat them. The company today unveiled a revolutionary threat-hunting platform that integrates multiple layers of AI technology to deliver unparalleled security capabilities and real-time, autonomous response to attacks across the entire enterprise.

Flashpoint, the globally trusted leader in risk intelligence, has announced the release of Ignite, a new intelligence platform that accelerates cross-functional risk mitigation and prevention across computer telephony integration (CTI), vulnerability management, national security, and physical security teams.

VMware, Inc., (NYSE:VMW) today announced new capabilities that deliver strong lateral security across multi-cloud environments so customers can better see and stop more threats. VMware Contexa, a threat intelligence cloud powering VMware’s suite of security solutions, finds that cybercriminals make only 2-3 lateral moves to reach their target. Preventing lateral movement requires an end-to-end view across users, devices, networks, apps, and data. 

BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in intelligent identity and access security, has announced the release of a new global survey, “Identity Issues Impact Zero Trust Effectiveness.” The survey’s research focused on understanding current identity and zero trust trends, adoption rates, incidents, solutions, challenges, and new areas of focus. The research also investigated the integration requirements and techniques for zero trust solutions and how they interact with other key business applications and systems.

Nozomi Networks Inc. today announced Accenture Security, IBM Security and Mandiant (now part of Google Cloud) are participants in its new Elite Cyber Defenders Program. The program enables the leading global incident response organisations with Nozomi Networks’ award-winning OT and IoT cybersecurity solutions, advanced security training, shared threat intelligence and joint security research. This technology-led, collaborative initiative provides global industrial and government customers with access to the strongest possible cybersecurity defence tools, expert-trained incident response teams, and cutting-edge threat intelligence curated specifically for operational technology environments.

ExtraHop, a leader in cloud-native network detection and response (NDR), today launched ExtraHop IDS, which integrates with the ExtraHop Reveal(x) platform to offer a new, simplified approach to intrusion detection for deeper coverage and full-spectrum investigation. As part of its release, ExtraHop also announced several product enhancements, including Automated Retrospective Detection and a native integration with Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR.