Symantec has integrated the company’s threat intelligence systems with the security telemetry of Blue Coat in an effort to provide threat visibility and protection to customers. The companies have applied the brute data-crunching force of artificial intelligence to help analyze large volumes of security data, Symantec said Wednesday. “By fast-tracking the integration of the threat intelligence […] More

Aubrey Merchant, federal chief technology officer at Blue Coat Systems, has said cloud access security brokers are key to maintain visibility and control over outsourced cloud applications in an interview with Federal News Radio posted Tuesday. Merchant told John Gilroy during the Federal Tech Talk radio program that CASBs serve as a forward proxy that can help organizations understand the way employees use […] More

Blue Coat Systems and Tripwire have forged an alliance that aims to provide incident response teams a new system that works to potentially reduce the number and impact of data breaches. The agreement includes the integration of Blue Coat’s Malware Analysis and Security Analytics network and Tripwire Enterprise to make a model designed to isolate, contain and manage infected devices in […] More

A new Blue Coat Systems survey has advised government agencies and commercial enterprises to safeguard their computer networks from 10 top-level domain names used by dubious websites, GCN reported Wednesday. The company analyzed websites requested by 75 million users worldwide and found that .zip and .review emerged as the top two domains where 100 percent of […] More

Cylance and Blue Coat Systems have partnered to combine their threat detection technologies with the goal of helping enterprise customers avoid sophisticated and targeted cyber attacks. The companies seek to equip version 1.3 of Blue Coat’s Content Analysis System offering with a Cylance-made artificial intelligence engine, Blue Coat said Wednesday. CAS is designed to inspect […] More

Aubrey Merchant-Dest leads the cybersecurity strategies unit at Blue Coat Systems as federal chief technology officer, with focus on researching next-generation security technologies and fostering partnerships using big data and analytics to determine the latest threat indicators. He joined the Sunnyvale, California-based security company from Solera Networks in 2014, bringing with him more than two decades […] More

PARC has been awarded a $3 million contract to develop a thermal-insulating window coating technology for an Energy Department program that aims to reduce the amount of heat loss in single-pane windows during cold weather. The Xerox company will assimilate a transparent aerogel polymer material to the window coating for thermal loss prevention as part […] More

Symantec has said the use of machine learning platforms and efforts to share threat intelligence data in real time have helped the company to stop nearly 22 million ransomware attempts in approximately 300,000 endpoint devices worldwide. Symantec said Monday it has blocked Wannacry attacks through threat intelligence sharing between the Symantec Endpoint Protection platform and […] More

A security response team at Symantec collected intelligence data to help the FBI track and facilitate arrest of three cyber criminals in Romania that are part of a cyber crime group called “Bayrob.” Symantec said Friday the group conducted computer intrusion, credit card fraud and auto auction scams that resulted in the theft of up […] More

IHS has released a new report that forecasts the network advanced threat protection market to hit $1.3 billion in 2019. ATP global sales reached $194 million in the third quarter of 2015, up 53 percent from the same period last year, IHS said Thursday. Jeff Wilson, senior research director for cybersecurity technology at HIS, said […] More

A new MarketsandMarkets report predicts that the global market for advanced persistent threat protection systems will climb in value from $3.9 billion this year to $8.7 billion in 2020. The company said Oct. 14 the 17-percent compound annual growth rate over the five-year forecast period is due to increased demand for APT protection across several verticals amid a changing threat […] More

NASA will invest $5.5 million in nine projects that will test space technologies with suborbital rocket-powered systems, high-altitude balloons and parabolic aircraft. The space agency said Friday its 2021 TechFlights solicitation will fund technology demonstrations in space-like scenarios without having to launch them into orbit. NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate selected the technologies through the […] More