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Automation can't be just about running the process, but must include three important stages. New product categories have emerged to tackle the automation challenge, including Security Orchestration, Automation and Response platforms and tools and Extended Detection and Response solutions.

Trend Micro launched a new, co-built SaaS solution with Snyk. Trend Micro Cloud One - Open Source Security by Snyk is the newest Cloud One service and the first partner addition to the platform, which is available through the channel as well as AWS Marketplace.

The webinar explores automation as it exists today in the cybersecurity industry. The question isn't what we can automate today, but what could we automate tomorrow?

The study also found that this increased spending comes after a year in which 48% of IT decision makers already accelerated their automation projects as a result of the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The research, which was conducted across the US and UK, found that cost savings were the primary driver behind new automation initiatives, according to 63% of ITDMs. However, other benefits were cited, with 60% employing automation to increase customer engagement and satisfaction, and 59% using automation to drive employee productivity.

1Password launched Secrets Automation, a new way to easily secure, manage and orchestrate the rapidly expanding infrastructure secrets required in a modern enterprise. In addition to the new product launch, 1Password also completed the acquisition of SecretHub, a secrets management company that protects nearly 5 million enterprise secrets a month.

Password specialist 1Password has acquired SecretHub, a secrets management platform aimed at IT engineers, and made a new service called Secrets Automation, previously in beta, generally available. Secrets Automation uses a Connect Server, delivered as a Docker container, which users deploy in their environment.

There's an increasing need for process automation in IT Operations as a result of organizations' digital transformation initiatives to meet customer and employee demands, as well as remote and hybrid work policies brought on by the pandemic, according to a Transposit study. The report contains findings regarding the impact of remote work and digital transformation on service incidents and remediation.

Tines, an Ireland-based company that provides no-code automation solutions for security and operations teams, on Thursday announced that it has raised $26 million in a Series B funding round, at a valuation of $300 million. The Series B round, which brings the total raised by Tines to $41 million, was led by investment firm Addition.

As internet standards groups look to boost trust and security through new requirements for shorter certificate lifecycles and online privacy acts introduce increasingly punitive regulatory mandates, the business risks of certificate management are only increasing. How the four pillars of certificate automation are shaping the next normal.

Shujinko announced a major update to AuditX, the system of record for enterprise compliance data. "This update is a major step towards Shujinko's goal of helping enterprises achieve better cloud security by creating a system of record for all compliance data," said Scott Schwan, Co-Founder and CEO at Shujinko.