In 2019, when Trevor Hilligoss and other members of the FBI’s Cyber Task Force team would dismantle a cybercriminal operation, they would seize the domain, redirect the site, add a new splash-page with the name of the federal operation, take down back-end infrastructure, and do a few sanctions and indictments.

The disruption usually stopped there, Hilligoss said. These days, he and the cybersecurity and former FBI pros who spoke with IT Brew see law enforcement agencies stringing together wins with some extra swagger and alongside international cooperation from units like the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA).

“What we’re seeing now is kind of a leveling up, where all those same things are done: We still have the splash page, we still have the data being seized, all of that. But then we’re seeing agencies like NCA in the UK that are going in there and kind of trolling the adversary,” Hilligoss, current vice president of SpyCloud Labs at cybercrime-analytics firm SpyCloud, told IT Brew.

Read more here.—BH

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Always good advice to keep in your back pocket, sure. But it’s even more important when it comes to convincing the head honcho to switch the office over to serverless printing. In fact, IT teams that eliminate print servers cut time spent on print management by more than 50%

Need some help pleading your case? PrinterLogic’s How to Convince Your Boss guide can hook you up with all the deets you need to know to get managers’ mouths drooling over serverless printing.

For starters, you could tell ’em the juicy info, like: IT teams that choose PrinterLogic can reduce print-related help-desk calls by 95% and experience up to a 100% ROI within the first year of implementation. Huge numbers.

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Synthara, a semiconductor startup in Zurich, Switzerland, has raised $11.4 million to “expand the embedded computing market and enable AI applications,” according to a press release from the company.

Founded by Manu Nair and Alessandro Aimar in 2019, Synthara enables “embedded systems and devices such as wearables, robots, and smart sensors to be 100 times more efficient and faster,” Nair told IT Brew in an email.

Big plans. The funding will support the startup as it introduces its product, ComputeRAM, “to embedded computing applications.” The SRAM memory replacement allows “general-purpose embedded chips to address a wide variety of AI-rich applications,” the release explained. This in turn cuts down cost and time to market while “creating new opportunities for chipmakers and device makers.”

Read more here.—AF

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More than a hundred data centers, 4 billion security threats daily, and one cloud-based platform.

Paul Martini, CEO of iboss—a Boston-based cloud security company that offers network security as a service—is on a mission to replace legacy business VPNs with a zero-trust architecture. The platform allows secure internet access on any device or network, from any location, and on any cloud, according to the company site.

IT Brew caught up with Martini, who holds more than 250 patents in cloud cybersecurity, to chat about cloud security and saying goodbye to legacy business VPNs.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

What can you tell us about the work you’re doing?

“The idea is that when you think about connectivity and security, the technology required to properly secure organizations for access controls, or connecting people to the things they need securely, making sure that attackers don’t get access to applications and services—that type of technology that’s required for the masses is so expensive and so complicated that it basically makes it almost inaccessible.”

Keep reading here.—AF

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