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SentinelOne Partners With SecBI To Provide Threat Visibility, Containment and Remediation

August 24, 2018

SentinelOne has partnered with SecBI, a provider of automated cyber threat detection and investigation. By combining SentinelOne’s next-gen threat visibility, containment and remediation capabilities with SecBI’s Autonomous Investigation technology, security professionals will be able to shed light into every single behavior in an organization’s network, placing the spotlight on and enabling actionable defense against all incidents that happen and/or involve activities on the endpoint and in the network, the company described.

When All Else Fails— Why Cyber Liability Insurance Matters

August 20, 2018

In today’s world, cyber threats are on everyone’s minds. That’s because it’s slowly becoming the number one business risk for organizations of all sizes. From system hacks and DDoS attacks to the increased prevalence of ransomwares, news of cyberattacks seems constant. While there have fewer reports of major attacks comparable to the Yahoo breach of 2017, where the personal information of 3 billion users was exposed, that’s no reason to be complacent. Governments are stepping in to update policies and standards, which hold more organizations accountable.

Smart Home Cyber Security

What dealers need to know to keep their customers cyber-secure.

Joan Engebretson

July 30, 2018

Security dealers increasingly are offering smart home devices such as smart lighting control, smart thermostats and smart door locks to their customers. By taking the right precautions, dealers can help ensure that those devices enhance the customer’s lifestyle without posing cyber security vulnerabilities.

Perennial Software Services Back Online After Cyber Attack

Tim A. Scally

July 16, 2018

Customers of Perennial Software’s AlarmBiller and SedonaOne cloud-based management applications were without access to the systems for several days beginning the weekend of July 14 due to a cyber attack.

Who's Monitoring the Monitors?

Video monitoring systems, along with other surveillance devices, present a cyber vulnerability that must be taken seriously. Follow these steps to proactively monitor the security and monitoring system components.

Lou Chavez

July 2, 2018

A key consideration for every business is how to properly secure its data and assets. Video monitoring has long been a great tool in the arsenal of security professionals, allowing for dynamic and real-time observation of physical locations and data centers.

Security Integrators: The Opportunities, but Oh, the Challenges

Employees, keeping current with technology, and staying competitive in a fast-changing industry are among many challenges integrators face today.

Laura Stepanek

July 2, 2018

With every set of opportunities comes an often equally matched set of challenges. This is especially true for security integrators today, as both an active economy and a never-ending list of security concerns continue to stimulate sales — all bolstered by end users’ desire to apply security technology across multiple business functions.

SecuriThings Unveils Two-Click Deployment to Protect IP Cameras Against Hacker Threats

June 20, 2018

SecuriThings, a leader in IoT security, unveiled a new capability that enables systems integrators to rapidly deploy the SecuriThings solution onto operating IP cameras for immediate monitoring and remediation. Using common video management software (VMS), SecuriThings agents are quickly and effortlessly uploaded to existing video surveillance deployments, with no additional configuration necessary.

Securing VMS Against Cyber Attacks

For security integrators, an ounce of prevention can go a long way

Derek Rice

June 18, 2018

The list of networked devices continues to grow, creating even greater opportunities for would-be hackers to gain access to networks.

Cyber:Secured Forum Brings Comprehensive Cyber Discussion to Security Industry

June 18, 2018

Attendees at the first annual Cyber:Secured Forum, held June 4-6 in Denver Colo. and co-sponsored by The Security Industry Association (SIA) and PSA Security Network, were in for some sobering information on cyber security. If anyone came into it thinking they had it pretty well covered they were likely quickly disabused of that notion. However, the overall tone of the event was far from hand wringing. On the contrary, the whole point was to bring together experts from nearly every angle of the problem to share information and ideas on how the security industry can stay on top of a crisis it only identified in recent years.

SIA Commends Department of Commerce & Homeland Security on Botnet Report

June 5, 2018

On May 30, 2018, the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security released an action-oriented report on how the private sector and government can collaborate to mitigate against the threat of botnets and automated distributed attacks.