Tag: ransomware

Dave Raffo, senior analyst at Evaluator Group, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, covers news of CTERA personnel changes at the executive level and what this expansion to the executive team means for the future of CTERA.
Krista Macomber, senior analyst at Evaluator Group, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, covers news of Cohesity DataHawk entering general availability as well as the company’s introduction of its Security Advisory Council and Data Security Alliance, moving toward embracing partners to help deliver on cyber resiliency.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall explores why Lenovo is delivering the portfolio mix and marketing focus key to making further inroads across the enterprise storage market segment and raising storage ecosystem awareness of adopting new capabilities that can also prove integral in fulfilling their organization-wide strategic sustainability and cybersecurity goals.
Krista Macomber, senior analyst at Evaluator Group, part of The Futurum Group family of companies, explores the National Cybersecurity Strategy recently announced by the Biden-Harris administration and what that means for IT Operations teams.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess Pure Storage’s financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 and why they demonstrate that Pure Storage is fulfilling customer requirements for solutions that deliver data storage benefits such as energy and space savings and broader integration of automation as well as powering its path of continued growth and assuring improved customer business outcomes.
Futurum analysts Michael Diamond and Shelly Kramer explore the social engineering attack on Apple and Meta. They review how it happened, who the suspected perpetrators are (and how rampant these gangs are), as well as some of the cybersecurity dangers that are quite likely ahead.
Futurum Research lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers VMware’s VMworld 2021 announcements including an overview of Zero Trust architecture-based security innovations, VMware’s Carbon Black cloud offering designed to target ransomware, a disaster recovery as a service solution, and a solution that is designed to afford protection for the hybrid workplace that is our new reality.
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides his analysis of IBM Storage announcements today, which reflect the company’s addition of enhanced data protection to Flash System, showing a focus on security, ransomware, and storage. While the company has some catching up to do, this focus on data protection and a Storage-as-a-Service offering is clearly important to clients and prospects
Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his analysis of the most recent supply chain ransomware attack that has affected thousands of businesses globally over the July 4th weekend.
In this newest episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Cybersecurity Shorts series, analysts Shelly Kramer and Fred McClimans discuss nuances of the Colonial Pipeline attack and how the weakest link can take down the whole system, DarkSide’s Ransomware-as-a-Service offering, DarkSide’s servers being taken out, the Biden administration’s Executive Order aimed at hardening the Fed’s cybersecurity defenses, and the unusual act of the FBI and its court-ordered mitigation of Microsoft Exchange servers impacted by the recent hack.
Tesla joins forces with FBI to thwart an attempted ransomware attack that involved an outsider trying to bribe a company employee with $1 million.