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Vivek Ramachandran to Speak at Black Hat Asia's 2025 Financial Services Summit on the Evolving Cyber War Against State Actors

PALO ALTO, Calif., - 19 March 2025 - Vivek Ramachandran, Founder of SquareX and a cybersecurity veteran with over two decades of experience, will speak at the Black Hat Asia Financial Services Summit on April 2 2025 at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore. His talk, The War Against State Actors: Bleeding Edge Techniques Targeting Financial Services, will examine how nation-state attackers are evolving their tactics to infiltrate financial institutions and bypass enterprise security controls.

Vanta Delivers: New Features and Capabilities to Enhance Collaboration and Maintain Continuous Trust

Announcing teams and granular user access, Vanta Exchange, enhanced audit collaboration and new formats for security questionnaires. Product announcements and demos livestreaming at Vanta Delivers virtual launch event. Showcasing new capabilities at booth #2127 at RSA Conference April 28 - May 1 in San Francisco.

Knocknoc Raises Seed Funding to Scale Its Just-In-Time Network Access Control Technology

Sydney-based cybersecurity software company Knocknoc has raised a seed round from US-based venture capital firm Decibel Partners with support from CoAct and SomethingReal. The funding will support go-to-market, new staff, customer onboarding and product development. The company has appointed Adam Pointon as Chief Executive Officer. "The opportunity here is limitless," Pointon said. "You'd be hard pressed to find an organisation that couldn't benefit in some way from using Knocknoc.".

The Spy Who Searched Too Much: Insider Threat Lessons from the Rippling-Deel Lawsuit

The recent Rippling-Deel lawsuit is a stark reminder of the devastating impact of insider threats. This high-profile case between two HR tech unicorns reveals how vulnerable even the most innovative companies can be when protecting their trade secrets from within. What could Rippling have done to catch the alleged spy in the first place? We’ll walk you through the case and highlight how an insider threat platform could have detected and prevented the incidents earlier.

Fort Knox for Your Data: How Elasticsearch X-Pack Locks Down Your Cluster - Part 1

Picture this: an always-awake, never-tired, high-speed librarian that instantly finds the exact information you need from a massive collection of books. This extraordinary librarian is also capable of processing millions of requests simultaneously, understands partial or misspelled words, and even predicts what you’re looking for before you finish asking.

Passwords, a necessary evil: Are We Ready for a Passwordless World?

Performance reviews, insurance, root canals, speed bumps, and income taxes are but a few things we might consider life’s “necessary evils.” Let me add another one to the list: passwords! For decades, PINs and passwords have been the backbone of online security, but let’s face it, they’re almost always cumbersome, annoying, and far from perfect.