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Commvault, an enterprise data protection leader, has been positioned as an Overall Leader in KuppingerCole's Leadership Compass on Cloud Backup for Ransomware Protection. Within this rating, Commvault has also been named a Product Leader, Innovation Leader, and Market Leader. “Today’s hybrid IT environment creates additional challenges for backup and disaster recovery because of its complexity and heterogeneity, making it critical for customers to select solutions that align with their business requirements for service continuity, like resiliency, immutability, and scalability,” said Mike Small, Senior Analyst at KuppingerCole.  “Commvault has the broadest environment data protection with comprehensive functionality covering multiple use cases, a range of solution delivery options, and strong security features such as multilayered zero trust. Its Metallic Data Protection as a Service (DPaaS) should be considered by organisations looking for DPaaS as part of a comprehensive solution...

By Adrianus Warmenhoven, cybersecurity expert, NordVPN. Phishing concept art generated by Dream by WOMBO. A survey by NordVPN showed that 84% of users had experienced social engineering behaviour in the past, and more than a third of them have fallen victim to phishing email scams. Experts say that a new type of phishing has started to emerge recently — clone phishing — which can trick even the most cautious users. Clone phishing is a scam where a cybercriminal replicates a legitimate email or website to trick the victim into giving personal information. The cloned email looks almost the same as the original and contains legitimate details, making clone phishing more difficult to spot than other phishing attacks. Even though users learn and become more cautious every time they experience a cybersecurity issue, criminals don’t make it easy by constantly developing new techniques to target people. Clone phishing attacks take phishing to the next level because the emails are usually h...

Trellix, the cybersecurity company delivering the future of extended detection and response (XDR), has introduced Trellix Endpoint Security Suite proactively secures all endpoints, and empowers security operations centre (SOC) analysts with superior visibility and control in a single pane of glass. “In its approach to unified security, Trellix is aiming to be outcome-focused,” said Michael Suby, Research VP, Security & Trust, IDC. “From IDC’s perspective, we concur and reinforce that one of the outcomes should be methodically reducing cyber risk.” The Trellix Endpoint Security Suite comprises  Trellix Endpoint Security (ENS), Trellix Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), and  Trellix Endpoint Forensics . Feature highlights include:  Endpoint protection optimisation at scale, including proactive attack surface management and a full-featured threat prevention stack  Effective and efficient alert triage and response, covering alerts and incident triage and remediation, as wel...

This year, World Password Day falls on Star Wars Day , May 4. Despite predictions to the contrary, passwords continue to be a critical part of our lives. "Traditional passwords were a quintessential step in developing the different methods we use to access our accounts today. World Password Day serves as a reminder to organisations that although passwords were reliable in the past, it is time to bolster security solutions with more secure and robust authentication methods, like biometric authentication, to ensure that the user accessing an account is the authorised user," explained Stuart Wells, Jumio's CTO. "Ensuring our passwords are secure is a crucial element of protecting our digital identities and sensitive information that we may provide when shopping online, using social media or mobile banking apps (to name a few popular examples). The wide array of password-protected services available to us leads many to re-use the same password across many applicatio...

Tenable, the exposure management company, has announced that its Tenable One Exposure Management Platform now supports on-premises and hybrid deployments via a new integration with Tenable Security Center 6.1 . Tenable One streamlines exposure management for hybrid vulnerability management deployments and may help on-premises customers transition to the cloud more quickly. According to Tenable, it is currently the only vendor to offer exposure management for both on-premises and hybrid deployment models. Tenable One combines vulnerability management, cloud security, external attack surface management (EASM), identity exposure, web app scanning and attack path analysis data to discover the most critical weaknesses before attackers can exploit them. It continuously assesses environments – from traditional IT assets to cloud resources and identity systems – delivering the broadest vulnerability coverage available. Tenable One customers get access to both Tenable Vulnerability Manage...

Malaysia's largest prescription pharmacy chain, Alpro Pharmacy, has introduced mobile computing and RFID solutions from Zebra Technologies to digitalise its manual inventory management system. RFID is a wireless technology and stands for radio frequency identification. The first stage of digitalisation was to equip Alpro Pharmacy’s frontline workers with Zebra’s TC21 touch computers to replace their manual inventory management system, which used pen and paper. The mobile devices were introduced to assist with all inventory management tasks, from receiving goods at Alpro Pharmacy’s distribution centre to picking goods for its retail stores and e-commerce orders. The solution has since enhanced Alpro Pharmacy’s efficiency by approximately 80% and improved its overall accuracy through reducing human errors. It is further estimated that the digitalisation has improved the pharmacy's business capacity by an estimated fivefold, allowing it to fulfil more orders with its existing...

Pure Storage, which delivers advanced data storage technology and services, has announced the general availability of File Services for FlashArray, a storage service enabling organisations to access native block and file services from a single, global pool of storage resources.  "This release will delight our customers in Asia Pacific & Japan and will convince new customers to seriously consider Pure as an option. This feature will help simplify the storage management for many organisations particularly those who have to manage a multitude of virtual machines. And most of our existing customers will be able to benefit with just a simple, non-disruptive, upgrade to the latest version of the Purity operating system," stated Pratyush Khare, VP, Systems Engineering, Asia Pacific & Japan. According to the company, legacy multiprotocol block and file storage solutions have been around for decades, but have failed to deliver the flexibility and efficiency that unified ...