News for today:
- Humanix funding and focus. Humanix announced an $18 million funding round for its new protections against social engineering attacks. Humanix is redefining cybersecurity by making the human layer visible and defensible, closing the last major blind spot: social engineering. Using AI-powered natural language analysis, Humanix detects and blocks these attacks in as they happen across help desks, service desks and customer-facing channels. Humanix believes people shouldn’t be punished for being human, they should be protected. By securing the human layer, Humanix helps organizations detect, respond and prove that their human-facing processes are safe. Humanix
- KnowBe4 Studios. KnowBe4 centralized its training content under a new brand name – KnowBe4 Studios. KnowBe4 Studios represents the next evolution in the company’s training, designed to “raise the standard” of engaging content in the market. By unifying its creative teams, KnowBe4 will leverage 15 years of user data to deliver even more high-quality, effective training that keeps learners engaged. KnowBe4
- Automated certificate handling via DigiCert and Citrix NetScaler. DigiCert announced an integration of its CertCentral and Trust Lifecycle Manager with Citrix NetScaler Zero-Touch Certificate Management, for automating certificate workflows. As certificate lifetimes are shortened across the industry from 398 days to 47 days, the need for automation has become critical. Manual processes are no longer scalable. The DigiCert integration with Citrix NetScaler’s ZTCM is managed directly through the ACME protocol, enabling fully automated certificate issuance, installation, and renewal across NetScaler-managed applications and environments. DigiCert
- Cribl integrates with Google Security Operations. Cribl announced that its Stream offering now integrates with the Ingestion API of Google SecOps, for high performance routing of high-volume and high-variety telemetry data. The integration enables per-event labeling, for faster identification of critical security events. With the introduction of per-event labeling, customers can move beyond tagging data at the batch level and can now apply high-fidelity labels and metadata to individual security events before they are routed into Google Security Operations. This granular control improves incident response times. Available immediately. Cribl