Cybersecurity Roundup: BullGuard, Olympics Cyberthreats, Sophos, SentinelOne
… anyone with responsibility for Olympics-related cybersecurity review this report for actions to further improve their security posture.
“Russian, North Korean and Chinese state-sponsored adversaries likely pose the most significant threats to the games given their prior attack history, reputations as formidable actors, and geopolitical tensions,” it said. “Comparatively, CTA judges that Iran is less likely to conduct Olympics-related cyberthreat operations. Despite Iran’s history of conducting offensive cyber campaigns globally, we assess that it is not in Tehran’s strategic interest to compromise the Tokyo Games or affiliated entities.”
Sophos Launches Xstream Version of XG Firewall
Sophos has introduced a new Xstream architecture for its XG Firewall with transport layer security (TLS) traffic decryption capabilities aimed at eliminating security risk associated with encrypted network traffic.
XG Firewall now also features AI-enhanced threat analysis from SophosLabs and accelerated application performance.
Erin Malone, Sophos’ vice president of North America channel sales, tells us XG Firewall with its new Xstream architecture is the most adaptive next-generation firewall available today – and the “most transformative version of XG Firewall that we’ve ever released.”
“Channel partners have a significant opportunity to improve their customers’ protection and grow network security revenue opportunities,” she said. “This new version of XG Firewall helps them do exactly that, establishing themselves as trusted security advisers and service providers to their customers in a way that is convenient, intuitive and scalable. For example, Sophos XG Firewall now offers SophosLabs-in a-box threat intelligence that channel partners can use to educate and support customers, as well as AI-enabled sandboxing for suspicious files and up-to-the-minute, white- and blacklisting. New reporting capabilities also present this information to partners and their customers in an easy-to-understand green, yellow or red-light report.”
Unlike most firewalls that are unable to inspect encrypted traffic without causing applications to break or degrade network performance, Sophos XG Firewall processes network traffic at “near wire speed” for improved performance and overall security, Malone said. Channel partners can immediately deploy TLS inspection without concerns over performance or breaking incompatible devices on the network, and they can turn it on for different parts of the network with flexible policy setting options, she said.
“Sophos XG Firewall now offers direct, central management in the cloud through Sophos Central,” she said. This allows partners to connect and manage multiple security frameworks for customers, anywhere, anytime through a single pane of glass. With Sophos’ unique synchronized security approach, Sophos XG Firewall works together with Sophos’ entire portfolio of next-generation cybersecurity solutions for real-time information sharing and threat response. It’s a game changer for channel partners.”
SentinelOne Raises $200 Million in Latest Funding Round
SentinelOne, the autonomous endpoint protection company, has raised …