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As the challenges of smaller security teams are certainly different than with larger teams, these IT professionals must be more creative and pragmatic than their large enterprise counterparts, according to Cynet. From initial deployment to post-installation analytics, alerts and maintenance, the costs of new security solutions cover multiple areas.
Enterprises were overly confident in their security posture pre-COVID. Eighty-eight percent of companies reported that before the pandemic they felt some level of confidence in their ability to fully and securely support remote work. Uptick in risky behaviors since the pandemic started.
Agricultural production will need to increase by almost 56% to guarantee food security globally, without converting more land for agriculture. As communities gradually embrace smart agriculture, it is important to understand how to manage the security and privacy risks associated with the integration of information technology into agriculture.
The number of cities with 5G networks is now 1,336 globally, a 350 percent increase during the past year despite an ongoing global pandemic, Viavi Solutions reveals. As of January 2021, more than 30 percent of the world's countries now have 5G availability.
The Risk Protection Program is designed to help customers reduce cloud security risk and in turn potentially reduce costs by connecting with two of the world's leading insurers for specialized and enhanced cyber insurance designed exclusively for Google Cloud customers. As the use of cloud services increases, expanding to sensitive workloads and new data types, customers more than ever need assurances that their use of cloud services is integrated tightly into their overall risk management program.
Bridgecrew announces they've shifted their security scanning and fixing technology even further left with a new Visual Studio Code extension. "While Bridgecrew's mission is to ensure infrastructure security at every stage of the development lifecycle from code and build, through deployment, and into runtime the earlier you catch issues, the less headaches you'll have later down the road," said Barak Schoster, CTO, Bridgecrew.
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Strike Graph announces the launch of its new AI technology platform. The first feature on the new Strike Graph AI platform is the ability to answer each question on a company's Security Questionnaire based upon an organization's security habits and procedures.
"EU Agency for Cybersecurity Executive Director, Juhan Lepassaar, said:"The agreement ENISA signed with CERT-EU is a stepping-stone in utilising our synergies to the benefit of EU Member States and the EU Institutions, Agencies and Bodies. "Our structured cooperation comes at a time where the EU and its Member States need to strengthen their cybersecurity capabilities more than ever."
In a new e-book recently published, CISOs with small security teams talk about the drivers for replacing their EDR/NGAV solutions with an Autonomous XDR solution and why they believe consolidation provides significant benefits to organization and team. Organizations keep adding more and more security solutions that extend visibility, yet these solutions need to be maintained, monitored, and managed, taking up quite a bit of the analyst's time.