Microsoft Defender floods users with false password notifications
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has inundated system administrators with false alerts. The service flagged multiple sites for supposedly reusing passwords. Despite complaints from administrators, there has been no clear explanation from the tech giant.
Users have denied reusing passwords on the ... Read more
MobileIron protects ‘every endpoint, wherever it is’
Within enterprises, thousands of endpoints often are active at once. Many times, these devices are not identical and are located everywhere. Properly securing all of these devices could be complex. Security provider MobileIron, however, responds to these issues. With its products, it wants to help ... Read more
Tanium now offers SaaS-version of Tanium-as-a-service
Security specialist Tanium introduces the SaaS service Tanium-as-a-Service (TaaS) to deliver high-quality security to enterprise environments with a large number of connected endpoints. The cloud-based service does not require any additional infrastructure.
Tanium gives companies with its unifie... Read more
Zoom rolls out improved encryption to all users anyway
Zoom will offer stronger encryption to non-paying users after all. Initially, the intention was to make end-to-end encryption available only for paying users.
Due to the worldwide shift in remote working caused by the coronavirus, the Zoom video communication app became one of the services that ... Read more
Matrix42 offers a complete on-premises workspace management solution
We were recently approached by Matrix42 to look at their workspace management solution. We have written about several unified workspace solutions in the past, but Matrix42 has a more traditional approach, where the endpoint is central, and the cloud only plays a minor role.
Whereas all unified w... Read more
Liquit offers a hybrid layer between endpoint and unified workspace
Liquit is a fairly new company specialising in the unified workspace market with a hybrid solution. The company has, as it were, built a layer between the client and the unified workspace, allowing organisations to merge multiple platforms. This offers more flexibility and results in significant co... Read more
BlueKeep vulnerability in Windows is getting abused
Security researchers have spotted attacks utilising BlueKeep. BlueKeep is a vulnerability in older versions of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The error was discovered in the May 2019 Patch.
However, the biggest fear people had regarding BlueKeep does not seem to have come true for th... Read more
Tanium introduces Tanium Performance for security monitoring
Securityspecialist Tanium is launching a new platform for monitoring and managing endpoints in corporate networks. The new service should make it easier for IT teams to manage endpoints on a large scale.
According to Tanium, measuring performance has become a major challenge for IT teams of larg... Read more
CrowdStrike launches service to check threat level
CrowdStrike, supplier of endpoint security solutions, introduces a platform for companies to check their threat level. The platform, called CrowdScore, is located on the CrowdStrike Falcon platform.
The service is intended for CSOs to be able to see in an instant what the threat level is for thei... Read more
McAfee prepares for an IPO
McAfee would be preparing an IPO. According to Bloomberg's sources, this is a valuation of at least 8 billion dollars, which is equivalent to about 7.2 billion euros. In July, there were already rumours of an IPO, but then the company was only attributed a value of $5 billion.
Bloomberg's sources ... Read more