Splunk launches Splunk Security Cloud, nabs $1B from Silver Lake

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Splunk today launched Splunk Security Cloud, bolstering its data security portfolio and furthering its effort to make all parts of its machine-generated data search platform available in cloud-native applications. Separately, Splunk announced a $1 billion investment by private equity firm Silver Lake. Splunk, which is […]

Hackers hijacked email security firm Mimecast to spy on customers

(Reuters) — Email security provider Mimecast said on Tuesday that hackers had hijacked its products in order to spy on its customers. The company said it had been alerted to the attack by investigators at Microsoft and that “a sophisticated threat actor” had compromised the certificate used to guard connections between its products and Microsoft’s […]