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We shared with Fortune how ByteSpider, a scraper used by ByteDance, is now extracting more data from websites than any other. If you rely on accurate site metrics or are concerned about operational stability, this is something to pay attention to. Without effective bot protection, scrapers can distort your data, increase infrastructure costs, and even cause site downtime. Check out the full story: https://hubs.la/Q02Sn3VN0 #scraping #bots #botmitigation

I'm delighted to announce that today Harmonic Security was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in Data Protection for 2024. Shout out to Andrew Bales, Joerg Fritsch, Brian Lowans, & Anthony Carpino at Gartner who have given us fantastic guidance and direction this year. Congrats to the Harmonic Security team - what a week!

Do you depend on Active Directory? Do you pay attention when CISA (or ASD, or NSA, or CCCS, or NCSC-NZ, or NCSC-UK) gives you a warning? Then you’d better pay attention to the report The Five Eyes published on Thursday.? ?????????????????? ?????? ???????????????????? ???????????? ?????????????????? ?????????????????????? is the first guidance from this alliance that focuses on protecting the core system that most of the world’s enterprises depend on to run their business – and most threat actors depend on to break those businesses. Why is identity security in general, and Active Directory / Entra ID security in particular, so important? Unlike so many cybersecurity concepts, the logic of hybrid AD security is very straightforward: 1. ???????????????? ???? ?????????????? ???? ???????????????? in this perimeter-less world.? 2. The ?????????????????? ???? ???? ????????????????????????’?? ???????????????? ???????????? ???? ?????????????? to a zero trust architecture – especially in a hybrid organization with both on-premises and cloud services relying on that identity system.? 3. “Microsoft’s ???????????? ?????????????????? ???? ?????? ???????? ???????????? ???????? ???????????????????????????? ?????? ?????????????????????????? ???????????????? ???? ???????????????????? ?????????????????????? ???????????????????? (IT) networks globally.”? 4. “Active Directory’s pivotal role in authentication and authorization makes it ?? ???????????????? ???????????? ?????? ?????????????????? ????????????. It is routinely targeted as part of malicious activity on enterprise IT networks.”?? 5. “Active Directory’s susceptibility to compromise is, in part, because every user in Active Directory has sufficient permission to enable them to both identify and exploit weaknesses. These permissions make ???????????? ??????????????????’?? ???????????? ?????????????? ?????????????????????????? ?????????? ?????? ?????????????????? ???? ???????????? ??????????????.”? 6. “?????????????? ?????????????? ???? ???????????? ?????????????????? ?????????? ?????????????????? ???????????? ???????????????????? ???????????? ???? ?????? ?????????????? ?????? ?????????? that Active Directory manages.” Semperis is proud that this report mentions our own free community tool ???????????? ???????????? (with over 30k downloads) to evaluate your own organization’s hybrid AD security. Our (also free) attack path analysis tool ???????????? ?????????? analyzes and displays paths to your Tier 0 AD / Entra ID control plane. Download Purple Knight: https://lnkd.in/dabj2RG Download Forest Druid: https://lnkd.in/gXHDnmC8 ???? ??????????????????:?? Everyone has AD.?? Everyone depends upon AD.?? Bad guys attack AD.?? ?????????????? ????.

Announcing our Series A, led by T.J. Rylander at Next47. ?? CEO and Co-Founder, Alastair Paterson, shares more on the announcement here: https://lnkd.in/gfZzsh4E

My friend and Blumira CEO Jim Simpson published another Forbes article, drawing from his product management background to share insights on creating a more collaborative, human approach to cybersecurity using product design principles. Read his article here: https://okt.to/mBe3E5 #CyberSecurityForAll #infosec

A huge thank you to all that joined us this week at KKRs annual European CISO Summit. We take great pride in the relationships we have with our portfolio companies. It was fantastic to host over 70 security leaders and share the latest information security and cyber defense insights over a two-day summit. Special thanks to our event sponsors ReliaQuest, NetSPI, Barracuda, Semperis, Optiv, and Ten Eleven Ventures. A special shoutout to Aon for hosting us in their London office, and a big thank you to all involved from KKR events team. Kudos to our incredible speakers for their valuable contributions and insights: Ian McCaw, Ryan Barbour, Bob Catala, Sidath Periyasamy, Arvind Iyer, Keri Lewis, Idoia Uriarte Letamendi, Chris Gunner, Mike Blakemore, Steven Peake, Nabil Hannan, David Stern, Colleen Valentine, Gordon Aitken, James W. Doggett, ?? Francesco ?? Cipollone ??, Dave Palmer, Mike Cassiere, James Tucker, Zach Scheublein, Scott Melville, and Rui Shantilal. Thank you all for your exceptional expertise!