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The wide-ranging adoption of cloud facilities and the subsequent mushrooming of organizations' networks, combined with the recent migration to remote work, had the direct consequence of a massive expansion of organizations' attack surface and led to a growing number of blind spots in connected architectures. The unforeseen results of this expanded and attack surface with fragmented monitoring has been a marked increase in the number of successful cyber-attacks, most notoriously, ransomware, but covering a range of other types of attacks as well.
Cloud directory specialist JumpCloud is moving into the crowded patch management market with an extension to its platform to automate patch updates. Companies such as Apple or Microsoft already have varying levels of patch management tools in their armoury.
Researchers have found over 20,000 instances of publicly exposed data center infrastructure management software that monitor devices, HVAC control systems, and power distribution units, which could be used for a range of catastrophic attacks. Data centers house costly systems that support business storage solutions, operational systems, website hosting, data processing, and more.
Not to mention the fact that often the SaaS app owner sits outside of the security team in the department that most uses the app, and they are untrained and not focused on the security upkeep of the app. It all amounts to just how unrealistic it is to expect security teams to be able to stay in control of the organization's SaaS stack.
35% of the growth will originate from North America for the IoT data management market. The IoT data management market is expected to grow by $94.79 billion from 2021 to 2026.
Not to mention the fact that often the SaaS app owner sits outside of the security team in the department that most uses the app, and they are untrained and not focused on the security upkeep of the app. That's why Gartner named SaaS Security Posture Management as a MUST HAVE solution to continuously assess security risks and manage the SaaS applications' security posture in the "4 Must-Have Technologies That Made the Gartner Hype Cycle for Cloud Security, 2021".
The global mobile device management market size to grow from $5.5 billion in 2021 to $20.4 billion by 2026, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 29.8% during the forecast period, according to MarketsandMarkets. Mobile device management solutions allow IT teams and admins to control and distribute security policies to mobile devices accessing sensitive corporate data in their organizations, ensuring the corporate network is secure.
The global digital asset management market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 18.36% over the forecast period to reach a market size of $10.018 billion in 2026, from $3.078 billion in 2019, according to ResearchAndMarkets. The growing era of digital content across all industries from healthcare and finance to publishing and education is contributing to the growth of the digital asset management market.
The challenge faced by already strained IT teams is how to deliver strong certificate management across increasingly complex IT environments, at a time when workforces are massively distributed and entering the corporate network via the consumer-grade technologies in their homes. While third-party certificate authorities are a trusted option for many enterprises across the globe, many choose instead to issue them in-house, operating their own "Private CAs" to fulfill at least a portion of their PKI needs.
Between cloud proliferation, new tech infrastructure and tools and an increasingly distributed workforce, organizations are struggling to implement proper risk management practices. They often ignore one of the most important components of a solid risk management strategy: efficient communication between the "Front and back of the house."