Security News
The threat of ransomware or nation state attacks might open-up corporate wallets for short-term cyber-security investment but working out how to develop both your security team and your defenses for the long-term calls for a little more sophistication. It's also about understanding how security doesn't just protect your organization in the here and now but underpins its ability to succeed more broadly in the future.
According to a recent Pew Research survey, 64 percent of Americans are choosing to remain in either a fully remote or hybrid working environment, forcing businesses to grapple with the increasing complexity that comes with migrating and scaling workloads in the cloud. Qa survey respondents rank visibility into cloud data-in-motion as the top security factor globally.
ChaosSearch shared key findings from a survey of 1,020 U.S. IT professionals on data retention, data usage, and investments in data lake and cloud data platforms. 69% of respondents indicated that their organizations have implemented a data lake, while 23% of respondents have not implemented a data lake but are planning to deploy one.
Almost a month after a disgruntled Conti affiliate leaked the gang's attack playbook, security researchers shared a translated variant that clarifies any misinterpretation caused by automated translation. Apart from providing information about the gang's attack methods and the thoroughness of the instructions, which allow for less-skilled actors to become Conti ransomware affiliates and hit valuable targets.
Expert: Information management can also lead to a massive value proposition in being able to tap into governed data for business insights. TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Kon Leong, CEO and co-founder of ZL Technologies, a data management company, about data privacy and governance.
Noblis announced the launch of its Run with Noblis Solutions Suite designed to drive new levels of efficiency, visibility and insight across complex federal processes. Paired with Noblis' decades of experience tailoring services to address evolving client needs, these digital solutions will help government agencies employ automation and analytics to streamline complex workflows, expedite and improve decision making and achieve broader IT modernization goals.
Elastic announces a single management interface for Elastic Enterprise Search in Kibana, updated App Search precision tuning capabilities, and content source flexibility and synonym support for Workplace Search in the 7.14 release of Elastic Enterprise Search. Elastic Enterprise Search can now be centrally managed in Kibana, the single management interface for all Elastic solutions.
NortonLifeLock's global research team Norton Labs published its second quarterly Consumer Cyber Safety Pulse Report, detailing the top consumer cybersecurity insights and takeaways from April to June 2021. The analysis reveals the three most common phishing scams, in addition to new threats in encrypted chat marketplaces, online cookies, and vulnerable gaming drivers.
SDP is an end-to-end data management platform focused on unstructured data solutions. With its cloud-native and microservices-based architecture, SDP extracts and enriches data from any unstructured source and enables enterprises to harness the power of all data.
1Password launched Events API, a new way to empower security teams with greater data visibility and actionable insights. While events have been available within 1Password for administrators previously, this new feature deepens the information available and allows events to be piped directly to tools like Splunk and other SIEM platforms to provide a holistic view that allows for correlation with other sources.