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VanDyke Software announced the official release of VShell 4.6 server. VShell triggers facilitate automation of data and business processing.
Security analysts are becoming less productive due to widespread "Alert fatigue" resulting in ignored alerts, increased stress, and fear of missing incidents, according to an IDC survey of 350 internal and MSSP security analysts and managers. "To solve these challenges, analysts are asking for advanced automation tools, like Extended Detection and Response, which can help reduce the fear of missing incidents while strengthening their SOC's cybersecurity posture."
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.
Siemplify released a research that studies how the sudden shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic has affected SecOps analysts' ability to perform their jobs and the impact on overall security postures. The overall cybersecurity posture has remained strong due to greater investments in security automation technologies and reliance on managed security service providers, potentially paving the way for many security operations centers to become permanently remote, a Siemplify survey reveals.
As companies migrate to the cloud to take advantage of its scalability and flexibility, many don't fully realize how this move will affect their compliance with cybersecurity and privacy requirements mandated by laws and standards such as SOX, CCPA, SOC 2, PCI DSS or ISO 27001. While the cloud offers significant freedom, it also creates new pain points around achieving compliance with these requirements, especially when first moving compliant workloads from on-premises data centers to the cloud.
More than 95% of respondents indicated that business operations has become a more important function in their organization in the past year, a Tonkean survey reveals. The survey of 500 IT and business operations professionals at large and mid-sized companies also showed growing frustrations with the status quo of resources and tools to perform operations work.
Twenty20 Solutions announces its launch of enhanced Artificial Intelligence technology with advanced visual detection and classification capabilities designed to maximize operational efficiency for its customers. The company unveiled an expanded technology roadmap that includes new AI-enabled analytics to drive higher levels of visibility, security and automation.
LaSalle Solutions is launching LAMP 5.0, the latest version of the industry benchmark technology information management platform. By leveraging public cloud technologies including containers and Kubernetes orchestration, LAMP 5.0 delivers more accurate information directly from the cloud, with superior process and deeper automation, more scalable search and security optimized for an evolving world of mobile workforces and new privacy laws.
The SolarWinds security breach disclosed last month, which US authorities believe was of Russian origin and led to the compromise of at least 18,000 organizations, may have been enabled in part by software from JetBrains. One of these, build management and continuous integration system TeamCity, is used by SolarWinds as part of its application build process.
Chris DeRamus: Providing a platform that secures cloud data through automation has resulted in companies becoming enablers of the cloud. Chris DeRamus: Cloud operations will improve and become more secure once automation is implemented early on in the cloud development lifecycle, significantly decreasing the potential for human error.