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Japan-based global cybersecurity leader Trend Micro—whose U.S. HQ is in Irving—is urging AI engineers and IT leaders to heed best practices in developing and deploying secure systems—warning that if they don't, they'll risk exposure to "data theft, poisoning, ransom, and other attacks."
The Last Word: Trend Micro’s Rachel Jin on ‘Thousands of Exposed AI Servers’
by David Seeley | Jul 30, 2025
Japan-based global cybersecurity leader Trend Micro—whose U.S. HQ is in Irving—is urging AI engineers and IT leaders to heed best practices in developing and deploying secure systems—warning that if they don't, they'll risk exposure to "data theft, poisoning, ransom, and other attacks."
by Lance Murray |
Jul 16, 2025
Backed by SYN Ventures and five years of development, the Dallas-based cybersecurity company is led by threat intelligence pioneer John Watters. iCOUNTER aims to help organizations detect and deflect highly targeted, AI-enabled attacks—before they become “Patient Zero.”
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 9, 2025
Hyperabad, India-based agentic AI firm Covasant—which has a North Texas office in Plano and a U.K. office in London—aims to "directly confront adoption barriers for agentic AI" while delivering "robust, end-to-end enterprise governance solutions" through the newly combined entity, Covasant Technologies.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 2, 2025
The promotion follows a HQ move in 2024 and two cybersecurity acquisitions this year as McKinney-based Cytracom expands its unified platform for MSPs.
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DataBahn.ai co-founders, left to right: Nanda Santhana, CEO and Nithya Nareshkumar, president [Photos: LinkedIn]
Dallas’ DataBahn.ai Raises $17M Series A ‘To Redefine Enterprise Data Pipelines’
by Lance Murray | Jun 26, 2025
Founded in 2024, DataBahn.ai said it's "setting a new benchmark" for how modern enterprises manage and operationalize telemetry across security, observability, IOT/OT, and AI ecosystems.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 24, 2025
Trend Micro—whose U.S. HQ is in Irving—said many companies are demanding that their technology vendors remove the burden of "DIY security" by delivering pre-validated and co-engineered security and infrastructure offerings.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 18, 2025
The acquisition represents "a significant advancement" in Cytracom's Security Risk Management strategy and further aligns with the company's mission to empower MSPs to grow beyond traditional IT services and embrace a more strategic advisory role, the company said.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 11, 2025
The acquisition represents a significant step in LevelBlue's growth strategy by adding deep cyber and high-tech IP litigation consulting expertise and world-class incident response capabilities to its expanding global portfolio, the company said.
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UTD is helping prepare computer science students, including Arturo Yundt-Pacheco and Reese Hoffart (right), with Dr. Kamil Sarac (left), for careers in cybersecurity. [Photo: UTD]
The Last Word: On UTD Being Redesignated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity
by David Seeley | Apr 10, 2025
The University of Texas at Dallas has been redesignated as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity for cyber research for its “innovative and impactful” research contributions and its educational programs that train new generations of cybersecurity professionals.
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by Lance Murray |
Apr 9, 2025
UTD said it's one of about a dozen institutions in the nation and four in Texas to receive all three Center of Academic Excellence cyber designations, which are managed by the NSA’s National Cryptologic School.
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by Lance Murray |
Mar 20, 2025
Frisco-based Netwrix has made four new executive appointments in its go-to-market leadership team, including two additions to its C-suite: Chief Revenue Officer Britt Norwood and Chief Marketing Officer John Knightly.
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by Lance Murray |
Oct 18, 2024
Grady Summers succeeds Steve Dickson, who led the Frisco-based cybersecurity solutions company through record growth during his six-year tenure.
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Trend Micro Launches Deepfake Detection Technology To Protect Consumers and Businesses
by Lance Murray | Jul 30, 2024
Trend Micro, which has its U.S. HQ in Irving, is offering a free Deepfake Inspector that can alert consumers to potentially fraudulent deepfakes during a video call. For enterprises, new deepfake detection technology will offer a variety of advanced methods to detect AI-generated content.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 9, 2024
Zthernet said its expertise in providing flat-fee managed IT services for small businesses, including network management, cybersecurity, cloud services, and IT support, will complement CloudScale365's comprehensive service offerings.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 25, 2024
Exela aims to quickly mobilize resources for security breach remediation in high-stakes, time-sensitive scenarios. The contract began in June and is expected to conclude next month, the company said.
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by Quincy Preston |
Jun 20, 2024
When Dallas-based LevelBlue spun out from AT&T Cybersecurity in May, it wasn't your typical startup. As Bob McCullen, LevelBlue's chairman and CEO, told IT industry publication CRN, the new company launched as one of the largest startups in the cybersecurity industry to date.
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