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The top three priorities for tech professionals are improvement of security, cloud migration and automation to increase IT productivity, according to Kaseya's newly released 2021 IT Operations Report. The report surveyed nearly 1,000 IT professionals worldwide between April and May 2021 about their top priorities and challenges.
NS1 unveiled NS1 Connect, a unified application traffic automation and intelligence platform for modern application delivery and networking teams. The cloud-based platform provides NS1 customers with unprecedented visibility, control, and automation so they can build and deliver application experiences at the distributed edge.
Red Hat announced new end-to-end Kubernetes-native decision management capabilities as part of the latest release of Red Hat Process Automation. Based on the open source Kogito project, the new capabilities enable individual business decisions to be created and deployed as containerized microservices that are managed by Kubernetes alongside other containers in the application environment, reducing redundancy and the footprint of traditional decision management systems when deploying in cloud-native environments like Red Hat OpenShift.
AI, machine learning, continuous compliance, automation, integrations - these are the buzzwords in IT compliance right now. Compliance is met through the act of people ensuring that they understand and are comfortable with the necessary security process.
Content delivery platform provider Akamai announced Wednesday platform security enhancements intended to increase cybersecurity protections for web applications, APIs and user accounts. Akamai said its machine learning algorithms leverage insights from a dataset of over 1.3 billion daily client interactions to automate threat detections, time-consuming tasks and security logic to help cybersecurity analysts make better decisions faster.
Ascend.io announced results from its research study about the work capacity and priorities of data teams, including data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and enterprise architects. Amid the significant increase in the number of data pipelines across their organization, 74% of data professionals indicated their organization's need for data products is growing faster than their team size.
Tavant announced the new version of its end-to-end test automation framework, FIRE 5.0. Tavant's FIRE 5.0 is a comprehensive tool and technology agnostic-test automation framework.
Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed as many as ten critical vulnerabilities impacting CODESYS automation software that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution on programmable logic controllers. The Russian cybersecurity firm noted that it detected the vulnerabilities on a PLC offered by WAGO, which, among other automation technology companies such as Beckhoff, Kontron, Moeller, Festo, Mitsubishi, and HollySys, use CODESYS software for programming and configuring the controllers.
Researchers have identified 10 vulnerabilities in CODESYS automation software for industrial control systems. "The vendor rated some of these vulnerabilities as 10 out of 10, or extremely dangerous. Their exploitation can lead to remote command execution on PLC, which may disrupt technological processes and cause industrial accidents and economic losses," said Vladimir Nazarov, Head of ICS Security at Positive Technologies.
Opengear unveiled Lighthouse Enterprise: Automation Edition, out-of-band management software solution to include automation capabilities and secure provisioning. Part of a robust, new tier of product offerings, the Lighthouse Enterprise platform has evolved to give enterprise users full visibility and future-proof management capabilities across entire networks.