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GUEST OPINION:  The cybersecurity landscape in Australia has evolved dramatically. Gone are the days when simple firewalls and antivirus software could keep our digital assets safe. In FY24, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) received a total of 87,000 cybercrime reports. This meant one cybercrime was reported every six minutes on average.

ThreatX Protect Addresses Critical Need to Protect Against Evolving Application and API Security Threats

Sophos’ Portfolio of Cybersecurity Solutions is the Most Comprehensive Security Offering on the Pax8 Marketplace

The partnership integrates some of the best-in-class cloud network and CNAPP security through seamless technology integration and a strategic business alliance, setting a new standard for enterprise protection.

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Rapid7 is investigating two separate events affecting Fortinet firewall customers:

• Zero-day exploitation of CVE-2024-55591, an authentication bypass vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy disclosed earlier this week. Successful exploitation could allow remote attackers to gain super-admin privileges via crafted requests to the Node.js websocket module.
• A January 15, 2025, dark web post from a threat actor who looks to have published IPs, passwords, and configuration data from 15,000 FortiGate firewalls. The data leaked online appears to be several years old (2022). Rapid7 has not attributed any CVEs to the leaked data at this time.

GUEST INTERVIEW :  As businesses shift from Bare Metal to the cloud, why is this trend accelerating?

COMPANY NEWS:  Check Point excels with collaborative tools, and received the highest possible score in 13 criteria, including Vision, Innovation, and Threat Intelligence

COMPANY NEWS:  The New CloudGuardWAF-as-a-Service offers a fully managed, scalable solution empowering businesses to navigate the digital world with confidence and resilience

With almost one in every two firewalls being a Fortinet product, the company knows what the bad guys are up to, and has a serious mission to keep them out.

COMPANY NEWS Illumio Inc., a Zero Trust Segmentation company, today announced it has become a member of Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISV) and managed security service providers (MSSP) who have integrated their solutions with Microsoft security technology to build a better defense against a world of increasing cybersecurity threats.

COMPANY NEWS:  WatchGuard Technologies, a global leader in unified security, today announced that it has appointed Kyocera Australia as a second Platinum Partner in Australia and New Zealand.

COMPANY NEWS:  Check Point demonstrated a block rate of 99.8% on new malware, a flawless 100% phishing prevention rate, and an industry-leading lowest False Positive Detection rate of 0.13%

GUEST RESEARCH: Once used primarily by search engines, bots now have a variety of uses — both good and bad. The good bots are primarily search engine crawlers and other similar bots used for aggregating or monitoring content. These bots obey the website owner’s rules as specified in the robots.txt file, publish methods of validating them as who they say they are, and work in a way to avoid overwhelming the websites and applications they visit.

GUEST OPINION: Skilled cybersecurity talent is in tight supply. It's challenging to recruit, hire and retain skilled professionals: trends that are expected to continue into the near future.

The greatest threat to network security isn’t malware or other external threats, says Aruba chief product and technology officer David Hughes. “There’s a strong argument that it’s treating networking and security as two separate silos.”