MSP News - May 21, 2021

U.S. Cybersecurity Bill Calls On CISA for Infrastructure Help

A newly introduced bipartisan bill would direct the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to create a special cyber program to test the nation’s critical infrastructure defenses to thwart cyber attacks. By D. Howard Kass I May 17, 2021

Cybersecurity Report: 90% of Organizations Deal with Cloud Misconfigurations

Most organizations that move to multi-cloud environments are not properly configuring their cloud-based services, according to the “2021 Cloud Security Report: Cloud Configuration Risks Exposed” from application lifecycle security company Aqua Security. By Dan Kobialka I May 17, 2021

Splunk Acquires Threat Intelligence Platform Provider TruStar

Splunk has reached an agreement to acquire TruStar, a threat intelligence platform provider. With the acquisition, TruStar will integrate its capabilities into Splunk’s Data-to-Everything Platform, according to the companies. By Dan Kobialka I May 18, 2021