Wiz is reportedly set to buy centralized cloud threat management vendor Gem Security for $350 million, Bloomberg reported this week. The deal would come just four months after Wiz made its first-ever acquisition, scooping up cloud-based development platform Raftt for as much as $50 million.
Zscaler bought a data security startup led by a longtime Salesforce executive to help customers stay ahead of threats by beefing up data quality and AI models. Zscaler said the purchase will help it strengthen its data quality and model efficiency to outpace AI weaponization by threat actors.
Researchers at security firm Salt Security have uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in third-party plug-ins used in ChatGPT, including a zero-click account takeover flaw that was triggered when users attempted to install the plug-in using their ChatGPT accounts.
This week, amounts for crypto and phishing losses were released, the Bitcoin Fog operator was convicted, the EU approved rules to strengthen sanctions, the federal government sought to recover losses linked to pig butchering, and the Philippines blocked unlicensed crypto websites.
The U.S. healthcare sector needs to closely watch government regulatory and legislative developments involving artificial intelligence, including the European Union AI Act, said Lee Kim, senior principal of cybersecurity and privacy at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
The European Parliament on Wednesday approved the Artificial Intelligence Act, completing a penultimate step to enacting the world's first comprehensive AI regulation. The act needs final signoff from the European Council, which is expected by May.
Agility, scale and consumption - these are three business benefits Palo Alto Networks Software Firewalls bring to cloud network security. Tiffany Henry and Katherine Rigdon of Palo Alto Networks showcase these features and the value of finding them all on a single platform.
Cyera is raising between $150 million and $200 million in a new funding round that would value the Silicon Valley-based data security startup at as much as $1.55 billion. The funding talks come just nine months after Cyera closed a $100 million Series B round at a reported $500 million valuation.
DARPA said it wants to "redefine" AI security, so it is offering support to seven small businesses to automatically find and fix software vulnerabilities at scale. As part of its AI Cyber Challenge, DARPA awarded the companies $1 million each to develop a "cyber reasoning system" using AI.
The Department of Health and Human Services is working on grant programs and other financial programs to help under-resourced healthcare organizations deal with the cybersecurity challenges they're facing, said La Monte Yarborough, CISO and acting deputy CIO at HHS.
Months after declaring "Carbon Black is Back," the endpoint security unit was gobbled up by Broadcom and folded into its Symantec security team. "We would generate more value to our shareholders by taking Carbon Black - which is not that big - and integrating it into Symantec," CEO Hock Tan said.
AI has enormous potential for transforming and reimagining all aspects of healthcare but mitigating the risks requires a collaborative, comprehensive approach that prioritizes data security, regulatory compliance and ethical considerations, said Sunil Dadlani, CIO and CISO at Atlantic Health System.
The Italian data protection regulator opened a privacy inquiry into Sora, OpenAI's newly announced text-to-video artificial intelligence model. The inquiry follows an ongoing probe into ChatGPT. OpenAI has 20 days to respond to a number of questions posed by the Italian agency.
The New York-based cloud security phenom is speaking with several investors include Thrive, Lightspeed Venture Partners, G Squared, Sequoia and Cyberstarts in hope of raising roughly $800 million at a valuation of more than $10 billion. The cash infusion would help Wiz finance future acquisitions.
Generative artificial intelligence leader OpenAI returned Sam Altman to its board of directors Friday in a bid to put to rest a leadership crisis that rocked the San Francisco company during the last months of 2023. Fallout from the incident may yet reverberate for OpenAI.
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