According to IBM’s Data Breach Report 2021, the average cost of a data breach is $4.24M. As businesses become more reliant on remote work and as employees use more devices (the average employee now uses 2.3 devices), the potential liability increases each day. Axonius’ cybersecurity asset management platform gives enterprises a full inventory of their assets and ensures that these devices are properly being secured across all locations. The platform takes a holistic approach by integrating into existing cybersecurity tools and workflows and ensuring that all devices being used (whether physical or virtual) are compliant with the company’s security protocols. Axonius has also launched a specialized SaaS Management product that addresses the added risk companies face from the use of various modern software applications that are increasingly becoming a part of the enterprise tech stack. Companies like The New York Times, MindBody, Schneider Electric, and AB InBev are all customers and revenue grew 132% YOY in 2021. AlleyWatch caught up with Axonius CEO and Cofounder Dean Sysman to learn more about how the company is solving the fragmentation of IT that leads to security vulnerabilities, the company's strategic plans, latest round of funding, which brings the total funding raised to $395M, and much, much more...
Last Tuesday, Google announced its plans to purchase Mandiant, one of the prominent players in the cybersecurity industry, for about 5.4 billion USD (1). According to the deal, Google will acquire the US-based company for 23 USD per share in an all-cash deal likely to close by the end of the year (2). The […]
Samsung on Monday confirmed a security breach that resulted in the exposure of internal company data, including the source code related to its Galaxy smartphones. "According to our initial analysis, the breach involves some source code relating to the operation of Galaxy devices, but does not include the personal information of our consumers or employees," the electronics giant told Bloomberg.
Your company’s payment process can have a much higher impact on your overall performance than is apparent. This is because paper checks are increasingly losing relevance, as they slow down the payment processing time and can become a hassle for businesses and consumers. In this era of digitalization, where competition is constantly increasing, a more […]
There are few things as important these days as data security. It seems like there is a major data breach happening daily when you open a newspaper. This is why it’s so important to think about security as you are provisioning a SQL server. Whether you are starting from scratch, or are looking to shore […]
While attackers and researchers shift their attention to the next new vulnerability, security teams make sure they finish patching vulnerable Log4j versions in their applications and services.
The email addresses and passwords of more than 71,000 NVIDIA employees were likely stolen in a recent cyberattack and are now circulating within underground communities.
On February 23, hackers managed to compromise NVIDIA’s network and steal not only employee credentials but also proprietary information.