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Fortra today announced new integrations for its offensive security solutions that streamline capabilities for vulnerability management, penetration testing, and red teaming. Working together, the solutions apply the same techniques used by threat actors to identify and exploit gaps in an organizations’ security. With this proactive security approach, customers can find and fix weaknesses in their security posture before they are exploited.
Core Security by Fortra, a leading provider of cyber threat solutions, today announced the addition of ransomware simulation to its penetration testing solution, Core Impact. Using an automated Rapid Pen Test, Core Impact users can now efficiently simulate a ransomware attack.
MINNEAPOLIS (March 18, 2021)— Core Security, a Fortra Company, today announced the results of its annual penetration testing survey, with 85 percent of cybersecurity respondents reporting they pen test at least once per year. This finding is part of the more extensive 2021 Penetration Testing Report, which reveals that pen testing plays an essential role within organizations as...
Core Security, a Fortra Company, today announced a new version of its award-winning penetration testing software Core Impact. This version adds flexible licensing, a more frequent, streamlined release process, and new product features to increase convenience and usability.
HelpSystems has bought Strategic Cyber LLC, an "ethical hacker" that does business as Cobalt Strike, in the Eden Prairie company's latest move to beef up its cybersecurity presence.
Fortra today announced the latest release of Powertech SIEM Agent for IBM i. The new version provides enhanced flexibility to meet the demands of increasingly complex IT environments.
Fortra announced today the release of a free version of its security software for smaller organizations who need to protect their data with greater insight on what’s happening with their systems.
Core Security, a Fortra Company, announced today the release of Core Impact 19.1, the newest version of its market-leading penetration testing software.
Long-time security expert, Pat Botz, recently joined Fortra. Botz goes way back in the computer industry. He wrote the Basic compiler and CAD tools for Control Data supercomputers and then lead the development of CAD tools for its AIX workstation line three decades ago. He eventually became a lead security architect for the IBM i platform, and left Big Blue a number of years ago to start his own security firm, Botz & Associates. Dan sat down to have a chat with Chris Heim, chief executive officer of Fortra, and John Vanderwall, vice president and business unit manager for security services at the company, as well as Botz, who now has a senior security services consultant position at the company.
Policy Minder has been expanded to empower security monitoring for data stored on Amazon S3, giving IT professionals peace of mind any misconfigurations or oversights will be detected and rectified.
Despite all the IBM i security vendors that Fortra has bought over the years--and there have been at least five of them--the company has lacked one key security capability valued by enterprises: encryption.