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How many cybersecurity vendors are active at the moment? What are they offering? How is their business doing? These are just some of the questions that Richard Stiennon, Chief Research Analyst at IT-Harvest, is trying to answer on a daily basis. The former Gartner Research VP and industry executive is one of the industry's most prominent analysts and creator of the Analyst Dashboard, a web app that reveals data on 2,850 cybersecurity vendors.
As a result of this drive toward security technology consolidation, 77% of infosec pros would like to see more industry cooperation and support for open standards promoting interoperability. As thousands of cybersecurity technology vendors compete against each other across numerous security product categories, organizations are aiming to optimize all security technologies in their stack at once, and vendors that support open standards for technology integration will be best positioned to meet this change in the industry, according to a new annual global study of cybersecurity professionals by ISSA and ESG. The new research report, Technology Perspectives from Cybersecurity Professionals, surveyed 280 cybersecurity professionals, focused on security processes and technologies, and revealed that 83% of security professionals believe that future technology interoperability depends upon established industry standards.
What the hell are we supposed to do with this information? Is this an error in the suspicious activity detector? Is this the result of hacking attempts via compromised Microsoft systems? Is it Microsoft bungling some sort of management task? At the time of writing, nobody knows. That's quite a remarkable response to a threat that's difficult to enumerate.
Iran's Communications Ministry joined in a pledge with Russian state-owned defence and technology conglomerate Rostec to explore future collaboration in e-government, information security, and other areas. News of the collaboration came in a statement published on Friday by Iran's Information Technology Organization - a government agency charged with developing policy related to data networks and digital services.
Cynet Automated Response Playbooks empowers security teams to reduce their alert investigation. Cynet's Automated Response Playbooks automate manual tasks and workflows, empowering security teams to reduce their alert investigation and response times by 90%. In addition to freeing up valuable time for security teams, the playbooks provide a defined, consistent response process for more accurate security decisions and ensure that all alerts are properly addressed.
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology and the local Computer Emergency Response Team have extended the deadline for compliance with the Cyber Security Directions introduced on April 28, which were due to take effect yesterday. The Directions were purported to improve the security of local organisations, and to give CERT-In information it could use to assess threats to India.
It describes areas for which companies prioritize information security and compliance, which leaders control information security spending, how compliance has shifted the overall security strategy of the organization, and the solutions and tools on which organizations are focusing their technology spending. The findings cover three critical areas of an organization's security and compliance posture: information security and IT audit and compliance, data security and data privacy, and security and compliance spending.
Windows PowerShell is enormously useful, extremely prevalent, and often targeted by crooks because it offers an express route into the heart of Windows servers and networks. Instead, the agencies recommend securing PowerShell prudently.
India's government last week issued confidential information security guidelines to the 30 million plus workers it employs - and as if to prove a point, the document quickly leaked on a government website. The document, and the measures it contains, suggest infosec could be somewhat loose across India's government sector.
Deep Instinct released the third edition of its annual Voice of SecOps Report, focused on the increasing and unsustainable stress levels among 1,000 C-suite and senior cybersecurity professionals across all industries and roles. The research found that 45% of respondents have considered quitting the industry due to stress, with the primary issues being an unrelenting threat from ransomware and the expectations to always be on call or available.