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At an Oldsmar, Fla., water treatment facility on Feb. 5, an operator watched a computer screen as someone remotely accessed the system monitoring the water supply and increased the amount of sodium hydroxide from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million. The chemical, also known as lye, is used in small concentrations to control acidity in the water. In larger concentrations, the compound is poisonous – the same corrosive chemical used to eat away at clogged drains. The impact o...

HelpSystems announced the acquisition of Digital Defense, a provider of vulnerability management and threat assessment solutions. Digital Defense’s cloud-native vulnerability scanning engine gives organisations in healthcare, legal, financial services, and other industries the ability to proactively detect infrastructure security gaps and take effective remediation steps to safeguard against internal and external cyber threats. As part of HelpSystems’ cyber security portfolio, Digit...

Digital Defense, Inc. announced the integration of their Frontline.Cloud™ vulnerability management and threat assessment platform with the Cherwell IT Service Management (ITSM) platform. The union of the two security technologies enables joint customers to automate the process of ticketing, enabling organisations to quickly and efficiently address security vulnerabilities and threats, improving their overall security posture. "Through the integration, organisations can leverage the benefi...

Digital Defense, Inc. announces Frontline Network Map, an innovative feature offering IT security and operations professionals enhanced visibility of vulnerabilities and threats found on small, medium, and large networks. Frontline Network Map is accessible within Frontline.Cloud, the company’s SaaS security assessment platform and is being demonstrated at Black Hat 2019 conference currently underway in Las Vegas, Nevada. Risk network segments Through the Network Map capability, Fronlin...

Digital Defense, Inc. and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Department of Computer Science jointly announced a partnership that will provide students and faculty with access to an award-winning cloud-based information security platform to further enrich the students’ cybersecurity education. UTSA students and faculty will be able to utilise Digital Defense’s flagship Frontline.Cloud platform to evaluate the security posture of applications, systems and networks in classr...

Digital Defense, Inc. has announced the availability of its Frontline.Cloud integration with Attivo Networks, the award-winning leader in deception for cybersecurity threat detection. Digital Defense’s Frontline.Cloud vulnerability management and threat assessment platform identifies high-risk/critical assets with business context that are highly vulnerable to exploits, remain unpatched, are unpatchable or have already been infected in real-time. Integration with Attivo Networks Frontlin...

Digital Defense, Inc. announced the availability of its Frontline.Cloud app on Cortex by Palo Alto Networks – the industry’s only open and integrated AI-based continuous security platform. Building on Cortex allows partners to use normalised and stitched together data from customers’ entire enterprises to build cloud-based apps that constantly deliver innovative cybersecurity capabilities to joint customers.   Frontline.Cloud is the industry's only true on-demand vul...

Digital Defense, Inc., global security technology and solutions provider, has announced that president and CEO, Larry Hurtado, has been selected as one of QuantumShift’s Top Entrepreneurs in America for 2019 by KPMG LLP’s Private Markets Group and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. QuantumShift draws an impressive class of founders, owners and CEOs of private, high growth U.S.-based companies to boost their development through an intensive, five-day learning,...

Digital Defense, Inc., a SaaS security technology provider, announces over 200% growth of their partner channel from the prior year by focusing on trends and challenges faced by MSSPs (managed security service providers). Digital Defense leverages AWS (Amazon Web Services) to provide its solution globally with many MSSPs leveraging the company’s SaaS platform to effectively and seamlessly deliver vulnerability and threat management services to their customers. “Perhaps the biggest c...