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Kryon launched the industry's first cloud-based Full Cycle Automation-as-a-Service platform. Powered by Amazon Web Services, Kryon's FCAaaS pushes the boundaries of automation by combining Process Discovery, RPA, and actionable analytics in one unified platform.

Application developers are not security specialists, and likely do not have the knowledge and skills to find and fix security issues in a timely manner. The AWS cloud platform is ripe for security automation.

The operational level is focused on aligning to governance protocols like risk thresholds, delivery timelines, and automation during the build phases of business value creation. The end of the line in any process is where the actual customer that receives the value from a product or service experiences the touchpoint with your portfolio of valued items.

Umpqua Bank released a survey gauging the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the confidence and future of U.S.-based small and mid-size businesses. More than 1,200 leaders at companies across all industries and geographic regions were surveyed on how their businesses are responding and what they will need in the months ahead to navigate successfully through a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic event.

Trend Micro has demonstrated the strength of its collaboration with AWS since 2012 with a deep understanding of customer use cases and by integrating with leading AWS security services at launch. Most recently, Trend Micro Cloud One offerings have been natively integrated with AWS Control Tower and AWS Systems Manager Distributor.

The Ethernet Alliance announced the launch of an industry focus around Operational Technology networks found in building and industrial automation. With development of Single-Pair Ethernet creating new opportunities for solving challenges in OT networks, the Ethernet Alliance is seeking to connect with more expertise in the building- and industrial-automation industries.

DigiCert Automation Gateway launches with integration into DigiCert CertCentral in Q4. This new automation approach is designed to accelerate the adoption of automated certificate issuance, renewal, reissuance and revocation by tackling some of the common concerns with existing offerings. Automation Gateway will provide organizations the confidence to widely deploy automation protocols within their company networks to provide greater agility.

High-severity vulnerabilities found by researchers in Mitsubishi Electric factory automation products can be exploited to remotely attack organizations. According to advisories published last week by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, tens of factory automation products from Mitsubishi Electric are affected by three flaws that can be exploited for privilege escalation, arbitrary code execution and DoS attacks.

Box announced the addition of automated classification to Box Shield on Tuesday. "As people are working from home, security has become one of the top considerations for IT departments. People used to be inside the corporate network, inside of a firewall. Now the perimeter is actually moved to your house. You could be accessing content from your personal device, where as an organization, you might not have the level of security capabilities that device has," said Varun Parmar, chief product officer at Box.

Modern security threats come in many different forms, which is part of the reason why addressing them is so challenging and there is a dire need for security automation. Despite recent advancements, the barriers to adoption for automation software remain high, particularly within the security industry.