Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) News: 22 July 2019 -

Each business day, MSSP Alert broadcasts a quick lineup of news, analysis and chatter from across that managed security services provider ecosystem.

The Content: Written for MSSPs, SOC as a Service (SOCaaS), Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and MSP security providers — and those who need to partner up with such companies.
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Here’s the daily business update for Monday, July 22, 2019.

A. Today’s MSSP Alerts

1. Cybersecurity Unicorns: Which privately held cybersecurity companies will become unicorns -- with valuations of at least $1 billion? A finalists list for the Black Unicorn Awards may provide some clues.

2. Security Issue: BlackBerry Cylance has outlined these three protective steps to safeguard partners and customers from a security bypass issue that researchers recently discovered.

3. Equifax Data Breach Settlement: Credit-reporting company Equifax will pay up to a record $650 million to settle U.S. federal and state probes into a massive 2017 data breach of personal information, Reuters reports.

4. NSA Contractor Sentenced: Harold Thomas Martin III, a former National Security Agency contractor who was accused and later pled guilty to stealing over 50TB of NSA data, has been sentenced today to nine years in prison, ZDnet reports.

5. Hackers Hit Real Estate Market: Here's how.