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Organizations are more frequently embedding trust metrics into their request for proposals to ensure that potential vendors can also be trusted ecosystem partners. Trusted ecosystems help improve an organization's brand, reputation, and strengthen trust perceptions, which, in turn drive stronger business performance.
Creating such a custom-made experience requires collecting personal data - and when considering the criticism massive tech companies are garnering for their misuse of sensitive information - mobile app developers must prioritize data privacy and compliance. Data privacy and security and the mobile app creation process.
The anonymised data reveals major shifts in automation priorities as organizations responded to the pandemic, seeking to boost efficiency, increase sales conversion rates and manage their finances more closely. As customer interaction shifted online, the customer support department saw the biggest increase in automation use, up by more than 290% year-over-year.
Compliance teams that don't embed their controls into employee processes face a significantly higher rate of compliance failures, according to a survey by Gartner. The survey of 755 employees in April 2021 found these failures linked to unnecessary compliance burdens for employees.
While adoption of container architectures and microservices continues at an impressive pace, maintaining automated and proactive security and compliance is a particularly acute challenge for respondents, a NeuVector survey of more than 1,200 enterprise DevOps professionals reveals. Most interestingly: while container and Kubernetes security was cited as a top concern, many respondents also reported that their current security tools and practices are not well-matched for meeting ongoing security requirements.
Socure announced the continued growth of its executive leadership team with the addition of Debra Geister as vice president of product commercialization, compliance, and regulatory. Geister will work closely with regulators and customers to ensure that Socure products meet the industry's ever-evolving and extremely complex regulatory standards.
DNAnexus announced that its biomedical informatics platform has achieved readiness and, in many areas, exceeds the full series of online security policy objectives outlined in President Biden's recent executive order aimed at protecting critical American infrastructure from cyberattacks. The measures outlined in the new national security memorandum, titled "Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems," are being coordinated by the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Code42 announced it has integrated the Code42 Incydr product with Rapid7 InsightIDR. Security teams using InsightIDR with the Code42 Incydr integration will have the ability to identify, prioritize and triage the most critical insider threat events - data leakage, theft or malicious attempts to conceal file exfiltration. Code42 Incydr is the first data source dedicated to insider threat events to be accessible to InsightIDR users.
Pathwire released the results of its Data Compliance Survey, a survey of 1,000 IT and marketing decision-makers across the globe on the most common data privacy and compliance trends and challenges. The majority of survey respondents were based in EMEA and North America, which indicates that almost all organizations represented in the study would fall, General Data Protection Regulation, CAN-SPAM Act and/or the California Consumer Protection Act.
Skyflow launched PII Data Privacy Vault, a zero trust data vault for securely handling sensitive customer information. The PII Data Privacy Vault includes the new Skyflow Data Governance Engine, which enables fine-grained access control to data based on roles, policies, or attributes.