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Banking on Synack: Success Stories on How Financial Services Are Fortifying Their Security  Penetration Testing

Banking on Synack: Success Stories on How Financial Services Are Fortifying Their Security 

Financial services organizations and institutions are no strangers to cyberattacks. Managing heaping piles of sensitive financial information and data can often turn heads (for the wrong reasons), offering lucrative opportunities for monetary gain through theft, fraud and ransomware. To make matters worse, cybersecurity trends are not currently on the companies’ side, either.  According to FS-ISAC, […]

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Synack Adds Integration With Cisco Vulnerability Management Partner

Synack Adds Integration With Cisco Vulnerability Management

Synack’s Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) platform now has an integration with Cisco Vulnerability Management (formerly Kenna.VM). Synack’s solution combines our platform with the expertise of our human-led security researchers, the Synack Red Team (SRT), to find the most critical exploitable vulnerabilities. Cisco Vulnerability Management ingests data from Synack and other security tools to […]

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Closing the Gap: How Combining Automated and Human-led Testing Secures Your Assets Partner

Closing the Gap: How Combining Automated and Human-led Testing Secures Your Assets

Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) leader Synack has partnered with Tenable, the exposure management company. Together, they offer customers the best of both worlds: ongoing vulnerability discovery and insight for full visibility integrated with deep and detailed expertise of human-led security researchers. Together, the solution helps isolate and fix exploitable vulnerabilities faster. Tenable Vulnerability […]

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Federal Contractors’ Vulnerability Disclosure Programs (VDP) Gets a Congressional Nudge  Public Sector

Federal Contractors’ Vulnerability Disclosure Programs (VDP) Gets a Congressional Nudge 

Some federal contractors have treated cybersecurity like a locked door. If no one can report a vulnerability, it’s not a problem, right? The U.S. House of Representatives disagrees. Last month, the House took a significant step toward strengthening the cybersecurity of all federal contractors and passed a critical bill involving Vulnerability Disclosure Policy (VDP).  The […]

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From Overwhelmed to Optimized: Embracing an Attack Surface Management Strategy You Can Act On Uncategorized

From Overwhelmed to Optimized: Embracing an Attack Surface Management Strategy You Can Act On

Imagine being the ruler of a grand estate. There are sprawling bedrooms, towering walls, hundreds of windows and heavily guarded gates. However, that’s only what you were told. The chances of unexplored areas or underground tunnels being present are pretty high, and even the most secure buildings can have weak points.  The same principle applies […]

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Strengthening Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Newly Proposed HIPAA Rules to Include Pentesting Penetration Testing

Strengthening Cybersecurity in Healthcare: Newly Proposed HIPAA Rules to Include Pentesting

New year, new regulations. In late December 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a proposal to modify the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s (HIPAA) Security Rule, with an overarching goal of strengthening the cybersecurity programs of healthcare organizations and protecting patient data from malicious adversaries.  The HIPAA (not HIPPA, […]

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How to Use Your Azure Credits on Pentesting Before They Expire Uncategorized

How to Use Your Azure Credits on Pentesting Before They Expire

TL;DR: Earlier this year, Synack announced that its Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) platform was made available on the Azure Cloud Marketplace. This partnership allows security teams using Azure to have access to Synack’s on-demand and continuous security testing capabilities.  The Azure Marketplace offers a wide range of solutions from Microsoft and third-party providers, […]

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