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FREMONT, Calif., July  18, 2022  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeuShield , developers of the world’s first Mirror Shielding™ technology, announced today that CRN ®, a brand of The Channel Company , has named NeuShield to its 2022 Emerging Vendors list in the Security category. This annual list, published during CRN’s Emerging Vendors Week, July 18 – 22, recognizes the fast-rising technology vendors that have exhibited a commitment to driving positive change and continuous growth in the IT channel by delivering innovative, cutting-edge solutions. The technology vendors featured on CRN’s 2022 Emerging Vendors—all six years old or younger—are bringing a fresh approach to solving the IT challenges facing customers today, enabling their partners to deliver unique solutions that will ensure the IT channel’s continued success. NeuShield created the world’s first Mirror Shielding technology which allows customers to get back on their feet quickly with instant recovery. This unique technology is a game changer for our customers helping them to sleep at night knowing their data and systems are protected even if they are hit with fully undetectable (FUD) ransomware. “As part of our 2022 Emerging Vendors list, CRN recognizes technology vendors that are transforming the IT channel by providing revolutionary and innovative products that help customers manage ever-evolving IT demands,” said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. “As a trusted industry resource, CRN’s Emerging Vendors list gives solution providers insight into the latest groundbreaking IT channel technologies.”
“We are honored to be recognized a second time by CRN, a trusted industry source,” said Yuen Pin Yeap, the Chief Executive Officer at NeuShield. “Ransomware requires a unique set of tools to combat it. NeuShield is exactly what the industry needs to complete their security stack and complement their backup solution.”
The CRN 2022 Emerging Vendors list will be featured in the August 2022 issue of CRN Magazine and online at www.CRN.com/EmergingVendors . About The Channel Company  
The Channel Company enables breakthrough IT channel performance with our dominant media, engaging events, expert consulting and education, and innovative marketing services and platforms. As the channel catalyst, we connect and empower technology suppliers, solution providers and end users. Backed by nearly 40 years of unequalled channel experience, we draw from our deep knowledge to envision innovative new solutions for ever-evolving challenges in the technology marketplace. www.thechannelcompany.com
About NeuShield
NeuShield delivers a completely revolutionary approach to data protection. Rather than trying to detect and block threats one-by-one, the company’s patent-pending NeuShield Data Sentinel product shields important data to prevent threats from modifying it. Business and consumers use NeuShield Data Sentinel as a simple, reliable and budget-friendly way to revert digital files and devices to their pre-attack state when other malware defenses, like antivirus and anti-ransomware, fail. For additional information, visit  neushield.com  or connect with us on Twitter  @NeuShield . Press Contact:

NeuShield Spotlighted on the CRN® 2022 Emerging Vendors List

NeuShield is Named Best Emerging Technology Finalist by SC Media Awards 2022
May 19, 2022 11:00 ET
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FREMONT, Calif., May  19, 2022  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeuShield , developers of the world’s first mirror shielding technology, announced its NeuShield Data Sentinel product has been named a finalist in the Best Emerging Technology category of the 2022 SC Awards . NeuShield’s Data Sentinel enables instant recovery from ransomware when other malware defenses fail. “NeuShield and other Excellence award finalists reflect astonishing levels of innovation across the information security industry, and underscore vendor resilience and responsiveness to a rapidly evolving threat landscape,” said Jill Aitoro, Senior Vice President of Content Strategy at CyberRisk Alliance. “We are so proud to recognize leading products, people and companies through a trusted program that continues to attract both new entrants and industry mainstays that come back year after year.”  
In SC Media’s 25th year, SC Awards recognizes outstanding solutions, organizations and people driving advancements in the practice of information security. The 2022 SC Awards were the most competitive to date, with a record 800 entries received across 38 categories - a 21% increase over 2021. Entries for the SC Awards were judged by a world-class panel of industry leaders, from sectors including healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, consulting, and education, among others. “We are honored to be recognized for our innovative approach to address the problem of ransomware,” said Yuen Pin Yeap, the Chief Executive Officer at NeuShield. “We designed our solution to help end the ransomware epidemic for our customers. NeuShield offers instant data recovery without a backup and device restoration from cyberthreats without detection.”
NeuShield Data Sentinel is unique because it provides another layer of protection beyond what other ransomware solutions offer. NeuShield’s data recovery allows organizations to proactively defend their data utilizing  Mirror Shielding  to protect files, and ensure instant data recovery. This new approach allows companies to instantly recover from any unknown or zero-day threat, because NeuShield safeguards the data, rather than trying to identify specific threats. About SC Media
SC Media is the essential resource for cybersecurity professionals, keeping them up to date on vital developments and focusing on their most important concerns. Whether practitioners or leaders, technologists or executives, people who care about cybersecurity turn to SC Media, every day and throughout the day, to stay informed and gain insight into the complex issues that matter in their strategic and technology decision-making. As CyberRisk Alliance’s gateway resource, SC Media taps into an authoritative community of thinkers and innovators to provide a full range of relevant and useful content, including exclusive market research and data, opinion and perspective, independent product reviews, compelling in-person and virtual learning, and much more. About CyberRisk Alliance  
CyberRisk Alliance (CRA) is a business intelligence company serving the high growth, rapidly evolving cybersecurity community with a diversified portfolio of services that inform, educate, build community, and inspire an efficient marketplace. Our trusted information leverages a unique network of journalists, analysts and influencers, policymakers, and practitioners. CRA’s brands include SC Media, SecurityWeekly, ChannelE2E, MSSP Alert, InfoSec World, Identiverse, Cybersecurity Collaboration Forum, its research unit CRA Business Intelligence, and the peer-to-peer CISO membership network, Cybersecurity Collaborative. Click here to learn more . About NeuShield
NeuShield delivers a completely revolutionary approach to data protection. Rather than trying to detect and block threats one-by-one, the company’s patent-pending NeuShield Data Sentinel product shields important data to prevent threats from modifying it. Business and consumers use NeuShield Data Sentinel as a simple, reliable and budget-friendly way to revert digital files and devices to their pre-attack state when other malware defenses, like antivirus and anti-ransomware, fail. For additional information, visit  neushield.com  or connect with us on Twitter  @NeuShield . Press Contact:

NeuShield Selected as SC Media Excellence Award Finalist

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NeuShield Data Sentinel integration into the ICA Sistemas y Seguridad SIEM managed service provides the data protections customers need from ransomware breaches
FREMONT, Calif., Nov. 29, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NeuShield , developers of the world’s first mirror shielding technology, today announced a partnership with ICA Sistemas y Seguridad. NeuShield’s Data Sentinel, which enables the instant recovery of devices and data files when other malware defenses fail, will be integrated into ICA Sistemas y Seguridad’s SIEM managed service. ICA Sistemas y Seguridad customers can deploy NeuShield to protect their systems and data, with immediate recovery from malware attacks. NeuShield Data Sentinel integration is a key component to ICA Sistemas y Seguridad’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT):
Adds a quick recovery solution to ICA Sistemas y Seguridad’s security offerings
Simplifies recovery workflow, by integrating and centrally managing prevention, recovery, and security events
Reduces customer downtime through automation and rapid recovery
“The partnership with ICA Sistemas y Seguridad enhances our strategy to have our products deployed by small and medium-sized businesses,” states Yuen Pin Yeap, CEO at NeuShield. “Many SMBs don’t have in-house expertise to secure, manage and support their own infrastructure. For these companies, managed service providers, like ICA Sistemas y Seguridad, are great technology partners, providing the most appropriate managed technology with proven value.”
Ransomware is one of the largest security concerns for any company, and SMEs are particularly vulnerable, because they don’t have the security expertise or budgets of larger enterprises. The integration of NeuShield into the ICA Sistemas y Seguridad SIEM provides a high-value differentiated service offering. The quick recovery features from NeuShield helps customers avoid catastrophic downtime due to ransomware. “Through this partnership with NeuShield, ICA Sistemas y Seguridad provides a new and innovative protection and recovery solution to the European market,” states Alberto Canadas, Cybersecurity Presales and Business Development Manager at ICA Sistemas y Seguridad. “This is especially compelling in today’s digital technology climate, where cybersecurity has become so prevalent. The ability to have a one-click restore following a ransomware, or any malware attack, is game-changing.”
As a leading provider of IT protection and infrastructure services, ICA Sistemas y Seguridad understands the value of integrating innovative technology solutions. Their SIEM managed service is a valued approach that incorporates multiple security products and services, and combines their data with the management of security information and events. NeuShield integration provides immediate protection and recovery if a bad actor gets past malware defenses, like antivirus and anti-ransomware. NeuShield Data Sentinel is unique because it provides another layer of protection beyond what other ransomware solutions offer. NeuShield’s data recovery allows organizations to proactively defend their data utilizing  Mirror Shielding  to protect files, and ensure instant data recovery. This new approach allows companies to instantly recover from any unknown or zero-day threat, because NeuShield safeguards the data, rather than trying to identify specific threats. About NeuShield
NeuShield delivers a completely revolutionary approach to data protection. Rather than trying to detect and block threats one-by-one, the company’s patent-pending NeuShield Data Sentinel product shields important data to prevent threats from modifying it. Business and consumers use NeuShield Data Sentinel as a simple, reliable and budget-friendly way to revert digital files and devices to their pre-attack state when other malware defenses, like antivirus and anti-ransomware, fail. For additional information, visit  neushield.com  or connect with us on Twitter  @NeuShield . About ICA Sistemas y Seguridad
ICA Sistemas y Seguridad is a Spanish leader IT Security company, part of the European holding Grupo ICA, focused on cybersecurity advanced services related to IT, IoT and OT technologies, with high added value. Our managed security services and managed detection and response services are the basis of protection for large enterprises, SME and Public Administration. ICA Sistemas y Seguridad ‘s Security Operations Center (SOC) with high skilled professionals with more than 15 years’ experience are your best cyber army. For additional information, visit www.grupoica.com or connect with us on twitter @ICA_SyS. Press Contact:

NeuShield Announces Partnership with ICA Sistemas y Seguridad

NeuShield
FREMONT, Calif., Nov.  29, 2021  (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NeuShield , developers of the world’s first mirror shielding technology, today announced a partnership with ICA Sistemas y Seguridad. NeuShield’s Data Sentinel, which enables the instant recovery of devices and data files when other malware defenses fail, will be integrated into ICA Sistemas y Seguridad’s SIEM managed service. ICA Sistemas y Seguridad customers can deploy NeuShield to protect their systems and data, with immediate recovery from malware attacks. NeuShield Data Sentinel integration is a key component to ICA Sistemas y Seguridad’s Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT):
Adds a quick recovery solution to ICA Sistemas y Seguridad’s security offerings
Simplifies recovery workflow, by integrating and centrally managing prevention, recovery, and security events
Reduces customer downtime through automation and rapid recovery
“The partnership with ICA Sistemas y Seguridad enhances our strategy to have our products deployed by small and medium-sized businesses,” states Yuen Pin Yeap, CEO at NeuShield. “Many SMBs don’t have in-house expertise to secure, manage and support their own infrastructure. For these companies, managed service providers, like ICA Sistemas y Seguridad, are great technology partners, providing the most appropriate managed technology with proven value.”
Ransomware is one of the largest security concerns for any company, and SMEs are particularly vulnerable, because they don’t have the security expertise or budgets of larger enterprises. The integration of NeuShield into the ICA Sistemas y Seguridad SIEM provides a high-value differentiated service offering. The quick recovery features from NeuShield helps customers avoid catastrophic downtime due to ransomware. “Through this partnership with NeuShield, ICA Sistemas y Seguridad provides a new and innovative protection and recovery solution to the European market,” states Alberto Canadas, Cybersecurity Presales and Business Development Manager at ICA Sistemas y Seguridad. “This is especially compelling in today’s digital technology climate, where cybersecurity has become so prevalent. The ability to have a one-click restore following a ransomware, or any malware attack, is game-changing.”
As a leading provider of IT protection and infrastructure services, ICA Sistemas y Seguridad understands the value of integrating innovative technology solutions. Their SIEM managed service is a valued approach that incorporates multiple security products and services, and combines their data with the management of security information and events. NeuShield integration provides immediate protection and recovery if a bad actor gets past malware defenses, like antivirus and anti-ransomware. NeuShield Data Sentinel is unique because it provides another layer of protection beyond what other ransomware solutions offer. NeuShield’s data recovery allows organizations to proactively defend their data utilizing  Mirror Shielding  to protect files, and ensure instant data recovery. This new approach allows companies to instantly recover from any unknown or zero-day threat, because NeuShield safeguards the data, rather than trying to identify specific threats. About NeuShield
NeuShield delivers a completely revolutionary approach to data protection. Rather than trying to detect and block threats one-by-one, the company’s patent-pending NeuShield Data Sentinel product shields important data to prevent threats from modifying it. Business and consumers use NeuShield Data Sentinel as a simple, reliable and budget-friendly way to revert digital files and devices to their pre-attack state when other malware defenses, like antivirus and anti-ransomware, fail. For additional information, visit  neushield.com  or connect with us on Twitter  @NeuShield . About ICA Sistemas y Seguridad
ICA Sistemas y Seguridad is a Spanish leader IT Security company, part of the European holding Grupo ICA, focused on cybersecurity advanced services related to IT, IoT and OT technologies, with high added value. Our managed security services and managed detection and response services are the basis of protection for large enterprises, SME and Public Administration. ICA Sistemas y Seguridad ‘s Security Operations Center (SOC) with high skilled professionals with more than 15 years’ experience are your best cyber army. For additional information, visit www.grupoica.com or connect with us on twitter @ICA_SyS. Press Contact:

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Retail banks have long had backups in place to deal with any event – physical or cyber – that threatens to disrupt their smooth-running operations. These days, however, the increasing menace of ransomware attacks is exposing the holes in such contingency plans. If your organisation’s data was held to ransom, what would you do? That is a question many bankers are now asking themselves in the face of the growing threat of ransomware. Cybercriminals are increasingly using malware to lock down systems and encrypt data, wreaking havoc until a ransom is paid so they can get up and running again. It can take days, weeks even, to get back to normal, and IBM estimates that an infrastructure failure can cost as much as $100,000 per hour. And a failure in a critical application could cost up to $1 million per hour. With figures such as these, it’s no wonder that bankers are questioning what their organisations should be doing. Financial institutions: targeted by 1 in 4 malware attacks
There has been a dramatic increase in ransomware attacks, according to a January 2021 report from Gartner, and by one estimate there was a 50% increase in the number of daily attacks in the third quarter of 2020 alone. And in 2019, according to RSA, financial services institutions were the target of a quarter of all malware attacks. David McKnight, a principal in the consulting group at Crowe who specialises in cybersecurity, comments that ransomware is highly prevalent, and for banking executives, “It is top of mind because they are seeing it and they might be affected by it,” he says. One way to avoid paying the ransom in such an attack is to have an effective backup plan in place. McKnight comments that typically when bankers are asked what would happen in the event of a ransomware attack, the answer is ‘We have backups’. However, often that isn’t good enough. It all sounds great, and looks good on paper, McKnight says, but often, “The integrity of the backups is not there.” A backup may not capture all the data, or it may not recover soon enough – it could be backing up only two days, not one day, prior to the attack, for example – and there could be a gap that still needs to be reconciled. McKnight comments that he sees pockets in the US banking system – particularly the community banks i.e. those with assets of $5bn and under – where there is a lack of testing and validation of the backups. Essential need for banks to perform ‘fire drills’ of backup recovery systems
This is similar to what Yuen Pin Yeap, CEO of NeuShield, a company that specialises in data protection as a defence against ransomware, is seeing. “Although bigger banks tend to invest heavily in cyber protection and robust backup systems, the smaller regional banks and credit unions may not have the resources and expertise to be as prepared from a ransomware attack,” he says. Yeap says that at a minimum, a bank needs to regularly perform successful ‘fire drills’ of its backup recovery systems. “In order to be well prepared for a ransomware attack, the bank also needs to evaluate what is the maximum down time it can endure, and have a system that can fully recover from a simulated attack within that period,” he adds. Although organisations may think they have backups in place, many may not be doing it properly. McKnight points to the questions that should be asked: Do the backups work? Have they been validated? Has that system been brought online and checked? Has there been a practice recovery to see if it reconciles? These issues can be a point of failure for retail banks. Also, McKnight comments, in the face of a malware attack, “There is widespread panic when that happens.” It’s not just about having a robust backup in place, but also a step-by-step plan that articulates a process of who does what when, especially when they are gripped by blind panic. Another more recent development that has highlighted failings in the backup plans is hybrid working and working from home. Staff who are now working on laptops away from the office may be reminded by their IT teams that they need to back up their data beyond their local machine, but McKnight questions, is anyone checking they are actually doing it? Recovery systems: must bring systems back online in hours
These issues are not just related to ransomware, as Yeap at NeuShield points out. “A solid physical backup system with zero chance of failure is a must have for any bank, even before the proliferation of the ransomware attacks. However, ransomware attacks mean there is a pressing need for a recovery system that can bring the system back online in hours, not days. That means physical backups alone may not be sufficient to protect the bank from ransomware attacks.”
There are a number of things that banks could be doing better, Yeap points out: “Cyber protection has to be looked at from the holistic point of view. A bank, or any potential victim of cyberattack needs to have multi-layer security solutions as the basic defence. If the organisation has complex hybrid infrastructure in the cloud and on-premise, as most banks do due to the rise of online and mobile banking, then they also need to look at network security technologies such as micro-segmentation and zero trust model [where every user and device has to have its identity verified] to contain the ransomware once it has infiltrated one of the subsystems,” he says. Multi-layer security solutions as the basic defence
In the case of ransomware, or any kind of malware attacks, McKnight says “If something has caused the system to go down and we believe it is the work of a malicious actor, the big thing is how far back do you go to what is a safe state? The malware could be on a system and dormant for a long time,” says McKnight. “How do you prove that it was a safe state?” A lot of effort is spent on forensics and assessing when it entered the system. If, for example, it was seven days ago, then the bank would need to return to the backup from eight days ago. The advice from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre is for there to be an offline – or ‘cold’ – backup so that if there was an attack the offline one would be unaffected. The agency advises to only connect the backup to live systems when absolutely necessary and to never have all the backups connected or ‘hot’ at the same time. This avoids the scenario that some organisations have found themselves in; that when they are attacked they realise their backup was also online and also gets encrypted by the malware. Colonial Pipeline lessons
In the event of a systems failure, however, it might not be as catastrophic as it sounds; customers’ money is still safe – it’s just they can’t access it, points out McKnight. If there is a situation where an older backup has to be used, it is unlikely that the core ledger of a bank would be affected. Malware attacks typically target Windows-based systems, which the core ledger is not based on, comments McKnight. McKnight draws the comparison with the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in May this year, which shut down the company’s systems and caused disruption to anyone wanting fuel. It wasn’t the company’s physical operations and movement of the oil that was at issue, however, but rather the billing system that was affected. This was enough, however, for the company to suspend its business transactions and pay the ransom. Protocol, Script, checklist
It is not just ransomware that requires the need for a robust backup plan to be in place; there are numerous other reasons for systems failures or other kinds of outages. As part of the audit process, McKnight points to the typical redundancies that should be checked. For example, if the internet goes down, there should be a backup plan. For hardware failures, or issues such as a loss of power – and having diesel generators on hand – banks are typically well prepared, comments McKnight. What they need is a protocol, and a script, that can be used as a checklist that can be ticked off, item by item, rather than having to think of what to do in the moment, when panic is likely to strike. Diesel generators, and the need for offline and physical alternatives harks back to an older way of doing things. And in some corners of the financial infrastructure, there are some relics that are still relied upon. In the case of card payments, for example, ‘click clack’ imprinter machines can still be used as a physical backup in the event of a payment systems failure. Imprinter machines: relics of another age
These imprinter machines can be a test of one’s age, and millennials typically don’t know what they are. The card is laid in the base of the machine, carbon paper slips over the top, and the ‘zip zap’ of the imprinter runs along the embossed details on the card, thus printing the card details on the paper slips. One is torn off for the customer, another for the merchant. A spokesperson for Barclaycard, a major acquirer in the UK explains that merchants can still buy these machines. “We recommend that merchants have an imprinter, just in case their communication link or card terminal can’t be used as, if neither can be used, they won’t be able to take card payments until these are back up and running.” They added, however, that if there’s a hardware issue a replacement can be ordered quickly, and outages that aren’t related to terminals are rare. A spokesperson for Visa Europe explains there is no scheme rule that requires merchants to have these imprinters and said it “would not expect merchants to have access to such devices – particularly as many cards today are not embossed, and many consumers make payments without a physical card (such as with their mobile phones, or with wearables).”
As payments are increasingly digital, as well as all other aspects of retail banking, the need for appropriate backups is critical. Ransomware doesn’t make this a new issue – there have always been the need for effective backups – but its rising prevalence is causing bankers to ask questions about all of their backups.

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