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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.
Intellibot extends ServiceNow's core workflow capabilities by helping customers automate repetitive tasks for intelligent, end-to-end automation. ServiceNow intends to build Intellibot's capabilities natively into the Now Platform to enable customers to more easily integrate with both modern and legacy systems to drive productivity and strengthen existing artificial intelligence and machine learning efforts.
The investment will accelerate Jumio's significant global lead in the digital identity space by devoting additional resources to automate its identity verification solutions, expand the breadth of the Jumio KYX Platform and grow its suite of AML compliance services. Jumio brings its pioneering document-centric identity approach to leading blue-chip companies across the telehealth, financial services, online gaming and social media spaces.
Cybersixgill announced that Darkfeed will be available through Swimlane's security automation platform. Now, Swimlane users can enhance their threat research and incident response by integrating actionable alerts from the industry's broadest and most comprehensive intelligence collection from the deep and dark web.