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CDW announced that it has acquired Focal Point Data Risk, a provider of cybersecurity services with customers across a diverse set of industries. "Helping our customers leverage technology to protect their most critical data is core to our mission," said Christine A. Leahy, president and chief executive officer, CDW. "Adding Focal Point's array of security consulting, customer workforce skills development and professional services capabilities expands CDW's services portfolio and enhances our ability to address risks posed by malicious cyber threats and cyber workforce shortages, while helping customers successfully navigate shifting data protection laws."

While this digital shift is widely talked about, one of the often-overlooked repercussions of such rapid transformation is the need for a new approach to asset visibility. This lack of visibility is a major security risk and must be addressed by a renewed approach to asset management.

Nearly two-thirds of network managers, network architects, and network engineers said their organizations have hired dedicated network automation engineers to transition to network operations. NetOps 2.0, the current iteration, embeds a growing amount of automation, virtualisation, and orchestration to improve the speed and accessibility of networking operations.

TechRepublic's Karen Roby interviews Brandon Vigliarolo about how the ransomware risk management calculus is changing for OT, ICS and critical infrastructure.

ThycoticCentrify, formed from a merger between two computer access management firms, said it surveyed about 8,000 people, and reports just under a quarter admitted they reuse passwords across multiple websites - a cybersecurity no-no because it opens you up to credential stuffing. The use of browser-stored passwords was also called out as a potential security risk by ThycoticCentrify, with a third of respondents apparently saying they rely on their web browser to manage their passphrases.

Treeverse announced $23 million in funding to date, which will further accelerate the development and adoption of the innovative solution designed for any enterprise data team tasked with managing petabytes or more of data in one shared system. "We're most proud of how lakeFS elegantly solves the file system challenge for data lakes of exponential size and how the growing community around it is involved in finding new ways to leverage lakeFS to improve their data workflows. We plan to use this round of funding to perfect the open-source core capabilities and build a SaaS offering over it that allows fast creation of predefined workflows that are essential for managing an ever-growing amount of data within every enterprise."

Burgoon joined Fusion's Executive Leadership Team and is responsible for talent management, succession planning, organizational and performance management, diversity, and inclusion, and learning and development. Burgoon will report directly to Fusion's CEO, Mike Campbell.

Trifacta announced the launch and general availability of the pre-built cloud data engineering templates, furthering the acceleration of self-service modern data management. Trifacta's data templates gallery gives users a head start by allowing them to deploy data engineering workflows in minutes that can be tailored to solve specific data challenges in common use cases.

Datadobi launched a vendor-neutral unstructured data mobility engine designed to handle the scale and complexity of the world's largest storage environments. Version 5.12 unifies the most sophisticated and field-hardened capabilities and techniques to deliver the data mobility required for sophisticated, vendor-neutral, and scalable unstructured data management solutions.

Cyber asset management and controls platform Noetic Cyber emerged from stealth mode today and also announced that it has raised $20 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2019, with headquarters in Boston and London, Noetic claims to take a new approach to cybersecurity, relying on API aggregation and correlation to gather data from security and IT management tools.