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Egress has announced enhancements to its reporting functionality, equipping customers with full visibility of their email security risk. Egress Analytics is available as part of Egress Prevent, Egress' flagship solution which utilizes contextual machine learning to mitigate the risk of human-activated email data breaches.

Threat intelligence data broker Recorded Future has acquired fraud analytics startup Gemini Advisory as part of a strategic push to expand into the financial services and payment processing markets. Recorded Future expects the Gemini Advisory deal to provide tools and expertise to sell the "Most comprehensive intelligence platform" with "The visibility to act at the speed of the adversary to mitigate cyber risk and fraud."

Threat intelligence data broker Recorded Future has acquired fraud analytics startup Gemini Advisory as part of a strategic push to expand into the financial services and payment processing...

Microsoft announced the addition of Threat Analytics for Microsoft 365 Defender customers and the roll-out of Microsoft 365 Insider Risk Management Analytics, both in public preview. Microsoft 365 Defender is an enterprise defense suite for cross-domain security that helps security teams to stop attacks and coordinate threat protection for devices, identity, data, and applications.

Tired of keeping up with security alerts from your system? Worried that your Security Operations Centre is getting deluged in low-level reporting? Fear not: Imperva has produced an aggregator aggregation product that sits over the top of all your other alert-generating security software. The Imperva Sonar platform, billed by the firm as wiping out "The need for siloed point solutions," hangs above Security Orchestration, Automation and Response and Security Information and Event Management products, the idea being to reduce the number of different things that your company's SOC needs to keep an eye on.

Rob Robinson, client partner in utilities practice for Capgemini, talks with TechRepublic about what the catastrophic outages in Texas should teach us about predicting threats to U.S. the power grid.

I think what you're going to see is that in the normal band of operation, I think, not just in Texas, but around the country, there's a lot of scenario planning, there's a lot of analytics that are present and used up from real-time, what they call, state estimation and situational wellness to situational awareness all the way to 20-year modeling to keep this grid stable. I think it's going to be a combination of modeling, not just the power grid, but the gas grid, of that water infrastructure-there's a whole huge behavioral modeling frontier that's going to be opened up.

Protegrity launched the Protegrity Partner Network, which empowers technology organizations, systems integrators, and value-added resellers to seamlessly deliver Protegrity's advanced data-protection solutions to joint customers, supporting privacy, advanced analytics, AI and machine learning, and cloud initiatives. The Protegrity Partner Network gives partners the necessary resources and certifications to enable their customers to unlock the potential of secure data, creating more opportunities for innovation and digital transformation, and improving customer experiences.

Using vulnerability data analyzed by the ZeroNorth AppSec automation and orchestration platform, these business intelligence analytics deliver a single source of truth on the overall risk and health of an organization's application security program. ZeroNorth's reporting and analytics provide high-level intelligence together with granular details on AppSec risk across the enterprise.

SOC analytics and automation, including security monitoring and incident management tools, are now mission-critical apps and services that are required to support revenue generation in today's changing business landscape. Let's take a look at why analytics and automation are so vital for modern security teams, the possible downsides, and why a cloud-native platform is the future for the SOC. Three core benefits.