New promotion unlocks access to Miro's platform on HP commercial PCs for seamless digital workspace productivity

Miro®, the visual workspace for innovation, today announced the company is teaming up with HP Inc. to accelerate innovation and enable seamless collaboration in digital workspaces. Starting today, customers purchasing the latest generation of HP commercial notebooks, desktops, and workstations can activate a promotion offering a free three-month trial to any Miro plan. The offer can also be accessed by current HP customers by downloading the myHP app.

Today's hybrid work environments are driving unprecedented demand for interactive settings that enable employees to create, ideate, and innovate together across spaces. With only 22 percent of workers describing themselves as thriving in hybrid work,¹ there is a critical need for access to the right tools and technologies needed to be productive at home and in the office. The joint effort between Miro and HP equips workers with the right tools for powering synchronous and asynchronous collaboration that drives innovation.

"Through our relationship with HP, we are excited and proud to offer this opportunity for our mutual customer base," said Varun Parmar, Miro's Chief Operating Officer. "Miro and HP are a natural fit because we are committed to helping information workers thrive and succeed in a variety of hybrid work settings – whether teams are fully remote, distributed, or working together in the same room, Miro and HP help drive innovation."

"At HP, we're not just envisioning the future of work – we're pioneering it, with a comprehensive ecosystem of devices and solutions that meet the evolving needs of today's hybrid workers," said Guayente Sanmartin, Global Head of Commercial Systems and Displays Solutions, HP Inc. "Our work with Miro redefines the possibilities for HP customers navigating digital workspaces to ensure they have the tools that enable them to reach their full potential with enhanced productivity, seamless connection, and unlimited collaboration."

Through this new offer, HP customers can try out Miro's intuitive visual workspace across critical activities, such as strategy and planning, customer-centric product design, and iterative product development.

To activate the Miro offer, HP customers who purchase the latest generation of HP commercial notebooks, desktops and workstations² can navigate to the Miro tile from the Start menu of their PC or visit the myHP app. Current HP customers can access by downloading the myHP app.

New integrated solutions solve for the most critical risks facing organizations when it matters most—spanning threat, identity, and data—to detect more attacks pre-delivery, quantify the impact of compromised identities, and improve the efficiency of defenders responding to data loss

Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today introduced industry-first innovations that address the top risks organizations face today—from business email compromise (BEC), the leading cause of financial loss for organizations, to ransomware and data exfiltration. The unified solutions, announced at Proofpoint Protect 2023, span the company’s Aegis Threat Protection, Identity Threat Defense and Sigma Information Protection platforms to thwart threats across the most critical stages of the attack chain. Fueled by trillions of detected threat activities sourced from one of the most comprehensive data sets in the industry, Proofpoint’s new AI- and ML-powered innovations equip security practitioners with unmatched visibility, flexibility, and depth to detect and disrupt sophisticated adversaries across their organizations’ attack surfaces.

“The critical parts of the attack chain can’t be effectively combatted without taking a people-centric approach,” said Ryan Kalember, executive vice president, cybersecurity strategy, Proofpoint. “We analyze more human communications than any other cybersecurity company, allowing us to deliver industry-first innovations that disrupt the threat actor’s playbook across the attack chain for email fraud, ransomware, data theft, and other risks that matter.”

AI and ML require robust detection models and a high-fidelity data pipeline to yield accurate detection rates, operational efficiencies, and automated protection. Proofpoint customers benefit from one of the largest and most diverse global cybersecurity data pipelines across email, the cloud, and mobile computing. Every year, Proofpoint analyzes an unparalleled amount of data sourced from more than 2.8 trillion scanned email messages, 17 trillion scanned URLs, 1.3 trillion scanned SMS and MMS, and 46 million DLP end users.

Preventing Initial Compromise 
Email is the number one attack vector leading to successful compromise. Proofpoint’s Aegis Platform is the only AI/ML-powered, cloud-based threat protection platform that disarms today's advanced attacks, including email fraud (BEC), ransomware, weaponized URLs, multifactor authentication (MFA) bypass for credential phishing, and more. New enhancements and features in Aegis include:

• Industry-first LLM-based Pre-delivery Threat Detection: Through Proofpoint’s implementation of the BERT large language model (LLM) within Proofpoint’s CLEAR solution, the company is pioneering industry-first, pre-delivery protection against social engineering attacks before they can do harm.

Pre-delivery protection is so critical because, based on Proofpoint’s telemetry across more than 230,000 organizations around the world, post-delivery detections are frequently too late. Nearly one in seven malicious URL clicks occur within one minute of the email’s arrival, and more than one-third of BEC replies happen in less than five minutes. These narrow timeframes, during which a user can fall prey to an attack, underscore the importance of blocking malicious attacks before they can reach a user’s inbox.

This LLM-based detection has also proven highly successful at detecting malicious messages—both those created traditionally and with generative AI. Proofpoint has also been using ChatGPT, WormGPT, and other generative AI-created malicious content to train our models.

• Enhanced Visibility into Blocked Threats: Last year, businesses lost more than $2.7 billion due to BEC scams—nearly 80 times greater than losses due to ransomware. Beginning in Q3, new summaries in the Targeted Attack Prevention (TAP) Dashboard will provide enhanced explanation on BEC condemnations performed by Proofpoint’s CLEAR solution, including threats condemned by the new LLM-based detection. Condemnation summaries will include why a threat was determined to be a BEC attack and its corresponding response timelines, reducing security practitioners’ time spent on threat analysis and reporting to management.

Identity Threat Defense: Attack Path Risk
The global increase in cyberattacks has been enabled by attackers shifting their tactics and focus to identity-based attacks, with 84% of organizations falling victim to an identity-related breach last year. When attackers first land on a host, it’s very rarely their end target. Instead, they escalate privilege and move laterally across an environment to exploit privileged credentials.

By bringing together market-leading data across the attack chain between Proofpoint’s Aegis and Identity Threat Defense platforms, security practitioners can understand the number of attack paths for ransomware and data exfiltration should an employee’s identity be compromised for privileged identity abuse and lateral movement with Proofpoint’s new Attack Path Risk. Available in Q4 within Proofpoint’s TAP dashboard, organizations that add Proofpoint’s Identity Threat Defense to their Proofpoint Aegis implementation can empower their analysts to swiftly prioritize the remediation and adaptive controls.

Defending Against Data Exfiltration: Misdirected Email 
Proofpoint Sigma is the only information protection platform that merges content classification, threat telemetry and user behavior across channels in a unified, cloud-native interface to stop data loss and insider threats. Proofpoint is the world’s largest Insider Threat Management (ITM) provider and second largest data loss prevention (DLP) vendor globally and by revenue (Gartner). Driven by the accelerated adoption of work-from-anywhere practices, Sigma is trusted by nearly half of the Fortune 100 and deployed to over 5,000 customers and 46 million users worldwide, analyzing 45 billion events each month.

Leveraging behavior anomaly detection machine learning for content scanning, Proofpoint’s new Misdirected Email solution, available in Q4, prevents users from accidentally sending emails and files to the wrong recipient and possibly creating a data loss incident.

Generative AI-based Analysis for Powerful Threat Insights Across the Attack Chain: Proofpoint Security Assistant
Proofpoint continues to deliver unique AI and ML innovations based on telemetry from its vast customer set comprised of more than 230,000 global enterprises and small- and medium-sized businesses as well as 150 ISP and mobile network providers. Previewed for the first time at Protect 2023, Proofpoint Security Assistant, a new generative AI user interface, empowers analysts to ask natural language questions and receive actionable insights and recommendations based on the trillions of combined data points across Proofpoint’s platforms.

Available in Q4 as a technology preview in the Sigma Information Protection platform, DLP SOC analysts can pose questions such as, “show me John Doe’s exfiltration attempts and recommend which DLP controls we should add.” Over time, Proofpoint’s generative AI-based interface will be expanded to the Aegis and Identity Threat Defense platforms, enabling security practitioners to gain powerful threat insights by asking queries such as, “show me the leading Very Attacked People who have the most attack paths that would result in a ransomware-based data exfiltration.”

Responsible Approach to Generative AI
The integrity, privacy and security of customer data is of paramount importance to Proofpoint. We rigorously evaluate each generative AI tool for compliance with Proofpoint’s corporate tenets. For example, we use internally deployed versions of generative AI tools, and we do not allow LLM providers to train their models using Proofpoint-held data.     

APTIM will leverage Locus Platform ’s configurable, user-friendly software applications to provide innovative environmental solutions to their clients. 

Locus Technologies, (Locus)—the leader in cloud-based environmental, sustainability, energy, and compliance management software—announces a new partnership with APTIM, a leading environmental solutions firm. APTIM provides integrated environmental, resilience, and nuclear decommissioning services for government, commercial and industrial, and energy clients.

Locus and APTIM are establishing a collaborative partnership using Locus software to deliver applications that will provide more efficiency and visibility for APTIM’s clients. APTIM’s clients will benefit from Locus’ off-the-shelf applications for compliance, waste management, auditing, ESG, and others. In combination with APTIM’s experience and knowledge in these areas, Locus and APTIM will also develop new applications to better serve the needs of specific projects. APTIM will use Locus-configurable software to quickly build and deploy applications that uniquely address complex environmental challenges.

"At APTIM, we use the latest, most innovative technologies to deliver exceptional performance and service for our clients,” said APTIM Vice President of Information Technology Jason Bourg. “Locus brings a well-established, highly configurable software that can adapt to our complex projects and leverage our expertise in environmental solutions. We look forward to expanding our relationship with Locus and utilizing the full extent of their software to maximize results for our clients across the U.S., Canada, and Peru.”

Locus Platform is the first fully integrated platform created from the ground up to allow organizations to manage their environmental, energy, water, waste, carbon, air, health and safety, remediation, and compliance information in one place. The platform allows companies to configure their management, tracking, visualization, and reporting through a graphically driven user interface. This feature enables organizations to configure the software to their needs without worrying about the expensive programming efforts usually associated with customization.

"We are very excited about partnering with APTIM as we share the same vision," said Neno Duplan, CEO of Locus. "We are eagerly looking forward to supporting many successful projects through our partnership with APTIM. Throughout our discussions, APTIM has demonstrated its vision and dedication to excellence. APTIM's commitment to fostering solid partnerships aligns perfectly with our core values, and we are genuinely excited about this collaboration's potential.”

With Platform Single Sign-on, Jamf and Okta now offer fast, secure and streamlined authentication during onboarding and continued work on Mac

Today, Jamf announced support for Platform Single Sign-On (SSO) with Okta. Since 2018, Jamf Connect has been a key solution for organizations that needed to bring cloud identity to the Mac for account provisioning. Customers of Okta and Jamf will be the first to take advantage of Platform SSO, Apple’s new identity technology that was first showcased at WWDC 2022. This first-to-market support will give end users a more seamless and secure experience during both the initial onboarding and ongoing authentication processes.

Seamless onboarding for remote users 
Okta customers can enable Platform SSO in their environment by purchasing Okta Device Access, which includes their new Desktop Password Sync capability. As part of a zero-touch deployment workflow on a new Mac, Okta Verify is automatically installed in the background. The user authenticates with their Okta credentials, which can be enhanced with additional multi-factor authentication (MFA), preventing unauthorized users from activating a new device with a stolen password. Jamf Pro's integration with Enrollment Customization pre-fills account details, prompting the user to set a local account password. Platform SSO updates this password by syncing with the Okta password, which enhances data security and reduces password resets and employee downtime.

A better, more secure day-to-day authentication experience
With Platform SSO, end users can access all Okta-protected applications on a device with Okta FastPass, which enabled phishing resistant and passwordless authentication. Additionally, the MFA process with FastPass can be configured to require biometrics (Touch ID or Face ID) in addition to multi-factor authentication methods like SMS and authenticator app notifications.

Jamf and Okta building support together for Apple-native technology 
Jamf is known for lock-step support and innovation with Apple. Jamf was early to ship support for the creation and management of Platform SSO profiles, making it compatible with any identity provider that also offers Platform SSO support. Okta, as the first identity provider to support Platform SSO, can now provide a single sign-on extension host app, allowing Jamf to offer our shared customers the full benefits of this new offering.

“For years, Jamf has solved the challenge of bringing cloud identity workflows to macOS with Jamf Connect. When Apple announced Platform SSO for macOS Ventura last year, we knew it was going to bring an additional improvement to the Mac experience and our customers would expect us to support it. But we couldn’t do it alone. Mobile device management is only half the equation and we needed a nimble identity provider partner to deliver the other half. Okta was the obvious choice given their commitment to Apple and SSO extension,” said Matt Vlasach, VP of Product Management at Jamf.

This latest integration comes shortly after Jamf announced support for Enrollment Single Sign-on, which enables mobile users to enjoy fast and secure authentication with Face ID or Touch ID to access company apps on personally-owned mobile devices using Okta. This was a major step forward to simplifying the account-driven user enrollment onboarding process while dramatically enhancing login security on BYO devices. 

“We had a unique opportunity to work with Jamf on first-to-market support for Platform SSO and Enrollment SSO, creating a truly best-of-breed solution from endpoint to identify on the Apple platform. Jamf shares our commitment to bridging the gap between security and usability and we’re excited to continue innovating together for our shared customers,” said Jamie Fitz-Gerald, Senior Director of Product Management at Okta.