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Enterprises must embrace innovation to drive secure value to their organization with automation. The latest buzzword in the security lexicon - automation - has been hailed as the key to fundamentally alter how we manage, analyze and execute.

Palo Alto Networks, the global cybersecurity leader, introduced Cortex XSOAR, an extended security orchestration, automation and response platform that empowers security leaders with instant capabilities against threats across their entire enterprise. Palo Alto Networks is redefining the security orchestration, automation and response category by making threat intelligence management a core component.

DFLabs, the award-winning Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response vendor is pleased to announce the availability of IncMan 5.0. The new release of IncMan SOAR will provide clients and partners with an optimized platform with unprecedented speed and flexibility.

Checkmarx, the global leader in software security solutions for DevOps, announced at the RSA Conference 2020 new enhancements to its market-leading Software Security Platform to empower more seamless implementation and automation of application security testing in modern development and DevOps environments. Available now, Checkmarx 'Flow' is an orchestration module for the Checkmarx Software Security Platform that tightly integrates with application release orchestration and agile planning tools.

Less than half of organizations have a privileged access management strategy in place for digital transformation technologies, like RPA, according to a CyberArk report. Limiting access for reprogramming robots - Reduce the risk that comes with RPA permissions - like the ability to reprogram robots - by securely managing credentials to RPA tools and training RPA teams on secure software development practices.

Anitian, a leading cloud security and compliance automation provider, announced Documentation Automation, an enhancement to its Cloud Security Platform that automates documentation for the most stringent compliance standards. "The automation of security and compliance documentation represents a final frontier in automating a company's journey to the cloud," said Andrew Plato, Anitian Chairman and CEO. "What used to take 12 to 18 months and teams of people to complete can now be done in days, even hours, with Anitian's Vision Portal."

JetPatch, a next-generation vulnerability remediation cloud platform, released JetPatch 4.0, which adds machine learning and intelligent workflow automation capabilities to ensure that an organization's systems are appropriately patched. JetPatch's Predictive Patching machine learning technology diagnoses remediation cycles and provides actionable insights derived from the data to increase success.

As organizations progress through digital transformation initiatives, IT and business process optimization initiatives mature. Many organizations have moved beyond the basics of business process automation and are now scaling their digital footprint with cloud, containers, and orchestration.

Overall, 74 percent agree that automation enables IT security staff to focus on more serious vulnerabilities and overall network security. Interestingly, automation highlights a renewed focus on the importance of the human role in security.

For IT security professionals, automation is reducing stress levels in the short term but threatening job security in the future. At the same time, 51% of respondents believe that automation will cut the headcount in the security department, up from 30% in last year's study.