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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.
Reston, VA-based Leidos Holdings has announced a definitive agreement to buy the airport security and automation businesses from UK-based L3Harris for $1 billion in cash. "The agreement provides a stable path forward for the Security & Detection Systems and MacDonald Humfrey Automation businesses, while enabling L3Harris to focus its resources on core technologies," said William Brown, chairman and CEO at L3Harris.
Automation is transforming the enterprise around the globe, directly impacting the bottom line as a result of improved productivity and efficiency, according to UiPath. Automation's impact on the workplace is not well understood and cannot be ignored: automation raises concerns about the impact on jobs, skills, wages, and the nature of work itself.
Some of the markets we are planning to expand into are rail transport and Building Automation Systems markets. Starting only one or two years ago, we saw the entire industry kind of look around and say "Safety is job one, and cybersecurity is essential to safety. Oh rats!" And we saw a lot of operators start looking seriously at cybersecurity.
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Rockwell Automation on Wednesday announced that it has entered an agreement to acquire Israel-based cybersecurity solutions provider Avnet Data Security in an effort to expand its cybersecurity expertise. Founded in 1995, Avnet provides a wide range of services and solutions for IT and OT environments, including penetration testing, assessments, training, and network and security products.