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KPMG to offer all
Swiss universities
free access to
cyberacademy
ogether with its UK-based
partner Immersive Labs, KPMG
is opening Switzerland’s first
cyberacademy and giving free access
to all students at Swiss universities and
universities of applied sciences.
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For many Swiss companies, the risk of
cyberattacks and data theft is now part
of their day-to-day lives and the country
needs to train many more experts of its
own – people who will be familiar with
the multifarious kinds of cyber-risks and
know how to tackle them.
KPMG Switzerland has joined forces
with UK-based cybersecurity firm
Immersive Labs to launch the Digital
Cyber Academy (DCA).
With this innovative partnership, KPMG
is making a cloud-based cybertraining
and assessment platform available
for free to all Swiss universities and
universities of applied sciences as well
as using the tool in-house to train its
own cyberexperts.
Users of the DCA are immersed in
virtual cyberlabs and presented with
a variety of challenges taken from real
life. In doing so, they aim to hone their
own skills in dealing with cyber-risks
in a targeted way and lay important
foundations for their future career in
the cyberworld.
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CHECK POINT TO ACQUIRE DOME9 TO
TRANSFORM CLOUD SECURITY
heck Point, a leading provider
of cybersecurity solutions
globally, has announced it has
acquired Dome9 of Tel Aviv, Israel.
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This acquisition enhances Check
Point’s fully consolidated Infinity
architecture and its cloud security
offering with advanced active
policy enforcement and multi-cloud
protection capabilities.
Founded in 2011, Dome9 has built a
strong reputation for enabling security
and compliance for rapid public
cloud adoption. Dome9 customers
use its platform to secure multi-cloud
deployments across Amazon AWS,
Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
The company provides significant cloud-
native security capabilities including
intuitive visualisation of security
posture, compliance and governance
automation, privileged identity
protection and cloud traffic and event
analysis, enabling cloud deployments to
be safer and more manageable.
As the use of cloud services
significantly increases and
cyberattacks on cloud data and
resources become more sophisticated
than ever, this acquisition strengthens
Check Point’s position as a global
leader in cloud protection. It will enable
Check Point’s customers to acquire
an even more powerful security
visibility and control across multi-cloud
environments through its Infinity’s total
protection architecture.
“Dome9’s platform will add rich
cloud management and active policy
enforcement capabilities to Check
Point’s Infinity architecture, particularly
complementing the CloudGuard
security product family and make our
broad solution even more differentiated
in the rapidly moving cybersecurity
environment,” said Gil Shwed, Check
Point CEO.
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