Silicon Valley-based Stellar Cyber, a security provider, has raised $7.1 million in additional funding, bringing its total Series A tally to $21.8 million.

Security provider Stellar Cyber, with the first Open-XDR security platform, announced the latest addition to its Starlight platform’s built-in App Store, a new Entity Behavior Analytics app.

The world’s largest security conference, RSA, came and went earlier this month at its normal home in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. There was some speculation the show might be canceled due to Verizon, AT&T and IBM pulling out, but the show went on with more than 40,000 people, myself included, coming to learn what’s new in the world of cyber security.

With each new year comes the inevitable flood of articles touting predictions. In the case of ransomware, predictions started to show up by mid-2019. The consensus? Ransomware is going to get worse. Most see ransomware attacks becoming more prevalent and damaging. More entities will be hit more frequently. There are many points to support such theories.

Security staff burnout and overload is a continuing dangerous situation. Security staff cannot look at all the alerts discovering 50% false positives. Security staff sometimes turns off alerts to alleviate alert fatigue. More data does not mean better security, only more work. The mean time to identify and mean time to resolution of security issues is getting longer.

I was fortunate to have been asked by the folks at TMC to moderate this interesting panel at the ITExpo Conference in Ft. Lauderdale last week. The session includes comments on the state of AI and ML in Security as well as what should be done to make threat protection and employee policies more rigorous. Security is a continual process not an event you check off and say you’ve done.

It’s no secret that managing security within enterprises, organizations, and small and medium businesses have become exponentially more complex as more applications and services enter “the mix” in the brave new world of IT-based primarily on cloud and XaaS architectures. By Arti LoftusFebruary 21, 2020 It’s no secret that managing security within enterprises, organizations, and small and medium businesses have become exponentially more complex as more applications and services enter “the mix” in the brave new world of IT-based primarily on cloud and XaaS architectures.

Security provider Stellar Cyber, with the first Open-XDR platform, announced its new Firewall Traffic Analysis (FTA) Application, which supercharges firewalls by analyzing their data to spot undetected anomalies.

Startup Stellar Cyber has teamed with Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP) in a move that demonstrates a strong market trend toward API-fueled alliances in cybersecurity as well as other cloud-enabled functions.

Security provider Stellar Cyber, with the first Open-XDR security platform, added a User Behavior Analytics (UBA) App to its Security App Store, making it much easier to track threats by specific users.

Stellar Cyber makes Starlight, the first open detection/response (Open-XDR) cybersecurity platform, connecting dots across security infrastructure and automatically responding to attacks wherever they occur.

Security provider Stellar Cyber, with the first Open-XDR security platform, today announced its new Threat-Hunting App Library, which eliminates an analyst's need to use custom queries in order to search for cyber threats or create custom widgets and dashboards to make sense of the data under investigation.

As the volume of cyberattacks grows, security analysts have become overwhelmed. To address this issue, developers are showing more interest in using Machine Learning (ML) to automate threat-hunting. In fact, researchers have tried to implement ML in cybersecurity solutions since the late 1980s, but progress has been slow. Today, ML is showing increasing promise with the advent of Big Data because the quality of information from which ML can learn is improving. However, there is much more to be done.

Security provider Stellar Cyber, with the first Open-XDR security application platform, announced that it has added a new “Data Streaming” Application to its Starlight platform.

Join us for Stellar Cyber coverage starting at 17:45 seconds, recorded live from the floor of Black Hat 2019 in Las Vegas. This annual cyber security conference covers the aspects of information security. We feature interviews from DHS to the actual hackers themselves. William SIkkens, Jeremy and Gretchen Winkler, Chaz Wellington