Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) News: 12 April 2021 -

Each business day, MSSP Alert broadcasts a quick lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across the managed security services provider ecosystem.

The Content: Written for MSSPs, SOC as a Service (SOCaaS), Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and MSP security providers — and those who need to partner up with such companies.

Frequency and Format: Every business morning. Typically one or two sentences for each item below.

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A. Today’s MSSP and Cybersecurity News Alerts

1. Funding: Talon Cyber Security has raised $26 million in seed funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Team8, serial entrepreneur Zohar Zisapel, and various cyber angel investors.

2. IPO: Darktrace is expected to launch an IPO that values the company at about $3 billion to $4 billion, Bloomberg reports.

3. Clubhouse Data Scrape: An SQL database containing 1.3 million scraped Clubhouse user records has been leaked for free on a popular hacker forum, CyberNews reports.

4. Attack Surface Management: Randori has updated its Attack Surface Management (ASM) and Continuous Red-Teaming (CART) platform. Key enhancements include Target Temptation, a new engine that assesses the "attackability" of external assets.

5. Research - Mobile Malware Attacks: Check Point's latest findings are here.

6. Partnership - Secure Access Service Edge (SASE): Oracle has integrated its Session Border Controller with Check Point's Quantum Edge.Oracle also added a direct connection to Check Point’s Harmony Connect, a SASE firewall-as-a-service, to add next generation firewall functionality to the local stateful firewall. The Oracle SD-WAN, with the bundled firewall, provides protection at the bottom-four layers of the OSI stack, Oracle Director of Product Marketing Douglas Tait writes in a blog. He points to these areas of protection:

Physical and network layer: device/application/network protection through traffic Isolation and secure operations

Data link layer: five layers of encryption and data-path replication

Network and transport layer: failsafe reliability, security zones

Transport layer: traffic segmentation and an integrated zone-based stateful firewalls