Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of April 12; NSA, Cyware, 4CRisk.ai, and More

Keeping tabs on all the most relevant identity management and information security news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last month, in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy identity management and information security news items.

Identity Management and Information Security News for the Week of April 12

NSA Issues Guidance for Maturing Data Security

The National Security Agency (NSA) is issuing guidance for maturing data security and protecting access to data at rest and in transit. The recommendations in the Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI), “Advancing Zero Trust Maturity Throughout the Data Pillar,” are intended to ensure only those with authorization can access data. The capabilities outlined in the CSI integrate into a comprehensive Zero Trust (ZT) Framework. “Malicious cyber actors continuously increase their ability to infiltrate networks and gain access to sensitive data,” said Dave Luber, NSA’s Director of Cybersecurity. “Assuming that breaches will occur, implementing the pillars of the Zero Trust Framework is how we combat that activity. Data pillar capabilities verify all access to data — one of the key foundational elements for building improved cybersecurity — thereby reducing the impact of breaches and enabling earlier detection of even advanced malicious cyber actor activities.”

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Baffle Announces New Capabilities to Secure Data in the AI Era

Baffle, a data security solutions provider, this week announced new capabilities that allow organizations to secure structured and unstructured data when moving to and across the cloud. “The ability to move files has been around for quite some time,” said Ameesh Divatia, founder and CEO of Baffle. “The explosion of data as GenAI tools have infiltrated all aspects of life has created the need to move data more efficiently and securely. Securing unstructured data at the file or field level creates a unique challenge for organizations trying to get the most out of their data especially with the complexity of various file formats across multiple locations. Protecting that data is paramount, and with our latest offering, data can be moved to and within the cloud while meeting all compliance requirements globally for analytics and AI.”

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Cyware Welcomes Stephan Tallent as Head of Managed Security Service Providers Program

Cyware, a leader in threat intelligence management, security collaboration, and orchestrated response, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Stephan Tallent as the new Head of Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) Program. With a profound career spanning more than two decades, Tallent is primed to steer Cyware’s engagement and expansion in the MSSP market. Tallent has held extensive leadership roles where he successfully built and expanded managed security practices. He has a proven track record of propelling organizations towards revenue growth and market leadership, demonstrated through his pivotal roles at Stellar Cyber, Cybereason, Fortinet, and in the telecommunications industry.

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Egnyte Appoints Ryan Kam as Chief Marketing Officer

Egnyte, a leader in cloud content security and governance, today announced the appointment of Ryan J. Kam as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). “With the rapid and continuous evolution of the cloud services industry, we are at a turning point to partner with our customers in navigating the dynamic industry and gain the most value from our product,” said Vineet Jain, Chief Executive Officer, Egnyte. “With his vast experience in marketing cloud-enabled services to enterprises, Ryan is aptly placed to build the Egnyte brand to greater heights and cement our unique positioning of a broad-spectrum intelligent content platform.”

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US Lawmakers Reveal Bipartisan Data Privacy Legislation

U.S. lawmakers, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), have unveiled the American Privacy Rights Act, a new data privacy legislation. This proposed law will create clearly defined protections and rights for Americans about data privacy while aiming to create enforcement mechanisms and eliminate the myriad of existing privacy laws. Following years of heated debate, this is a significant step in passing data privacy laws. If successful, the law will help consumers protect their data from uncontrolled use by tech companies such as TikTok, Google, and Meta and create fixed federal standards for understanding how much information companies can collect, transfer, and use during a consumer’s online activity.

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Rubrik Threat Hunting Now Available to Government Agencies and Educational Institutes

Rubrik, a data security solutions provider, announced this week that Rubrik Threat Hunting is now available to Rubrik Security Cloud – Government customers. Rubrik Threat Hunting empowers federal, state, and educational institutions to prevent malware reinfection with insights into the initial point, scope, and time of infection. “Imagine recovering from a cyberattack, only to find out that your organization has accidentally reintroduced the malware back into the system. After the costly downtime, psychological impact, and reputational damage — you’re back at square one,” said Anneka Gupta, Chief Product Officer at Rubrik. “Pinpointing the point, scope, and time of the infection can be nearly impossible without the ability to analyze the history of data for indicators of compromise. Rubrik Threat Hunting provides this deep level of intelligence, designed to enable federal and state governments to be confident in their cyber recovery.”

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4CRisk.ai Launches Ask ARIA Co-Pilot

Risk and compliance company, ​4CRisk.ai​, announced this week its newest product, ​​Ask ARIA Co-Pilot, a “highly intuitive, accurate Conversational AI for first, second and third-line professionals.” 4CRisk.ai uses language models trained on risk, compliance, and regulatory corpora with an informational retrieval component based on role-based access controls to create this safe, closed-domain, highly reliable Conversational AI tool. Ask ARIA provides up-to-date, contextually relevant answers to complex queries covering enterprise information: compliance artifacts, policy, procedures, contracts, standards, and controls, by analyzing an organization’s documents and obligations to answer day-to-day business questions

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