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Cloud-native network detection and response (NDR) company ExtraHop has announced Rob Greer has joined as its Chief Executive Officer;

Multi-cloud services provider VMware has excised a document from the site of its fully-owned security provider Carbon Black which details services provided to Medibank Group, the medical insurer that has been hit by attackers and had its data purloined.

Cloud risk and threat detection company Rapid7 has appointed 25 year technology and security veteran Rob Dooley as Vice President Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ), to spearhead the company’s continued expansion in the region.

Cybersecurity asset management and SaaS management provider Axonius has appointed 20-year cybersecurity veteran KY Wong as vice president of sales for the APAC region.

Enterprise software provider VMware has announced that its Sydney PoP for its VMware Carbon Black Cloud is generally available.

Endpoint protection vendor VMware Carbon Black is to open an Australian data centre in the first half of 2020.

Australian firm Fast Data Recovery, which has been claiming to be able to decrypt files encrypted by the Windows Dharma ransomware, is offering its services from a second site, under the domain ransomware-recovery.com.au.

Cyber security solutions for public cloud and as-a-service grew by 46% year-on-year for the first quarter of the current year, the analyst firm Canalys says.

Cyber attacks are increasing in volume and sophistication, causing regular security breaches affecting 89% of organisations, according to a newly released survey of Australian organisations.

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By Scott Lundgren, Chief Technology Officer, Carbon Black

Recently MITRE, a not-for-profit organisation that solves problems for a safer world, published the results of its first public evaluation of endpoint detection and response (EDR) vendors based on its increasingly-popular ATT&CK framework.  

80-plus technology partners have built more than 120 supported integrations by leveraging Carbon Black’s open APIs

SYDNEY -- March 29, 2018 – Carbon Black, a leader in next-generation endpoint security, today unveiled the Carbon Black Integration Network (CbIN), a technology partner program designed to improve cyber security through collective defenCe and powered by Carbon Black’s open APIs and the Cb Predictive Security CloudTM (PSC)  (PSC).

Ransomware would have cost businesses worldwide US$1 billion this year, according to an estimate by endpoint security provider Carbon Black.

Endpoint security software vendor Carbon Black has been found to be exfiltrating data from several Fortune 1000 companies due to the architecture of its Cb Response software, the information security services and managed services provider DirectDefense claims.

While the WannaCry ransomware scare was a wake-up call for many, the Petya/NotPetya outbreak just a few weeks later quickly showed that many organisations are still asleep when it comes to protection against modern ransomware.

Carbon Black’s Cb Protection 8.0 scored 100% in the NSS Labs’ Advanced Endpoint Protection (AEP) test, the only application control solution to automate lockdown of data centre servers.

Carbon Black, the leader in next-generation endpoint security, today announced it has been named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Endpoint Specialized Threat Analysis and Protection (STAP) 2017 Vendor Assessment.

The "essential eight" cyber security steps released by the Australian Signals Directorate in February will help organisations in meeting the requirements of the recently passed data breach bill, a security expert says.

Independent security testing laboratory NSS has rated Carbon Black’s endpoint protection at 100% for total coverage and 100% for block rate.

The use of the EMV technical standard for smart payment cards, as with other encryption and token technology at the transaction inception points, will not eliminate the malware threat, a senior official of an endpoint security company says.

Carbon Black, a leader in next-generation endpoint security, has announced it achieved 100% block rate and 100% total coverage score in NSS Labs’ Advanced Endpoint Protection (AEP) Test, securing the distinguished rating:“recommended for security effectiveness” by NSS Labs.