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The Tor Project, the research-education nonprofit organization that maintains software for the Tor anonymity network, has announced a membership program to secure funding that will allow them to "Be more agile" when it comes to software development. "Because we are a software development organization, relying only on grant funding, forces us into a development model that is slow and archaic. We can never execute solutions immediately in an agile way or experiment quickly with possible paths. We want to change that so we can respond to issues and start projects faster. And we can do that by increasing the number and amount of unrestricted contributions to the Tor Project."
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.
The financing will help support Perimeter 81's rapid growth and accelerate the company's hiring and development, furthering its disruption of the traditional VPN and Firewall markets. "With COVID-19, we witnessed an incredible surge in the demand for our services as the transition to remote work - which occurred virtually overnight - illuminated the need for companies worldwide to depart from their legacy hardware-based security and fully embrace a holistic, cloud edge network," said Perimeter 81 co-founder and CEO, Amit Bareket.
A survey by the Enterprise Strategy Group and the Information Systems Security Association of cybersecurity professionals shows that 70 percent believe their organization has been impacted by the global cybersecurity skills shortage. "No single action is working to bridge the cybersecurity skills gap. What's needed is a holistic approach of continuous cybersecurity education, comprehensive career development and career mapping/planning - all with support from and integration with the business."
IRONSCALES plans to use the funding to further accelerate its aggressive growth strategy through market expansion and ongoing research and development of its email security platform. "While we weren't actively seeking capital, partnering with Jump was too good of an opportunity for us to pass up," said Eyal Benishti, IRONSCALES founder and CEO. "With this Series B extension, and with Jump and McNulty on our team, we will be able to accelerate our marketplace momentum through investments in both people and technology, helping reduce the risk from what has become a global email phishing epidemic."
This increased strain has increased the need for DevOps and database DevOps processes, with 41% of respondents in the healthcare sector saying they have adopted DevOps across some projects to free up developer time and increase the speed of delivery. "We know that the healthcare sector is facing unprecedented demands from the pandemic and other regulatory struggles, and DevOps is the best way to tackle these issues," said Kendra Little, DevOps Advocate, Redgate.
SimIQ has been developed to meet the growing need to test GNSS capabilities earlier to accelerate product development, while simultaneously reducing costs by identifying issues prior to the purchase of hardware components. For developers using Spirent's market-leading GSS7000 and GSS9000 simulators, SimIQ extends multi-frequency, multi-constellation simulation capabilities to cover software-only testing needs through the capture and replay of high fidelity I/Q data files.
The cybersecurity skills crisis continues to worsen for the fourth year in a row and has impacted 70 percent of organizations, as revealed in a global study of cybersecurity professionals by ISSA and ESG. Cybersecurity profession crisis. Cybersecurity pros need a globally accepted career development plan.
Snyk has announced the significant enhancements to its prioritization capabilities, helping security and development teams automatically identify and fix the most critical vulnerabilities. By giving developers the immediate priority scoring, deep application context, customizable security policies, and Snyk's automated fix PRs, security teams can ensure their developers are fixing the most important open source and container vulnerabilities, as quickly as possible.
Allscripts and Microsoft announced the extension of their long-standing strategic alliance to enable the expanded development and delivery of cloud-based health IT solutions. The five-year extension will support Allscripts' cloud-based Sunrise electronic health record, making Microsoft the cloud provider for the solution and opening up co-innovation opportunities to help transform healthcare with smarter, more scalable technology.