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Modernizing and optimizing the way MSPs manage their clients' fast-growing SaaS ecosystems, technology pioneer Augmentt introduced its latest technology innovation: Augmentt Engage. Available now to trial or buy, Augmentt Engage makes it easy for MSPs to accelerate secure SaaS management by streamlining provisioning, simplifying daily user management and increasing productivity and security, at scale from a single screen.
Each vendor, platform, and application has its own approach to patch management. These processes can alleviate patch management pitfalls, support staff, and up-level an organization's overall security posture.
In the merry-go-round world of InfoSec technologies and "What's old is new again," this year we should include Attack Surface Management with a dash of Continuous. Ad hoc point-in-time enumerations of an organization's external attack surface are being superseded by continuous attack surface management.
On top of being engaged 24/7 in the organization's actual breach protection activity, the CISO has another critical task: to articulate the risks, potential impacts and appropriate steps to take to the company's management - or in other words, they must effectively translate security issues for non-security-savvy executives in a clear and business-risk oriented manner. To address this need, Cynet introduces the ultimate 'Security for Management' PPT template: a first-of-its-kind tool to capture and sustain management mindshare and drive their proactive understanding and commitment.
Today's enterprise should feel confident that the data management solution can provide the visibility and granular data security capabilities to support long-term data retention at scale. Active data governance - The best data management systems learn from user activity and put policies into action in users' workflows-an approach to data governance that actually works.
Mandiant Cyber Risk Management Services are designed to address critical business and security requirements to equip executives, boards of directors, and security and cross-functional leaders with risk-based data and advice to build effective and balanced security programs. "When developing a corporate security strategy and program, it is imperative to identify the areas and assets with the highest business value and those with the most significant threats and vulnerabilities. Mandiant Cyber Risk Management Services are designed to balance business and technical considerations and provide executives with risk-based decision support," said Jurgen Kutscher, Executive Vice President, Service Delivery, Mandiant Consulting.
Security teams need to monitor IT asset health from a cybersecurity perspective by detecting security tool blind spots and responding to exposures quickly. "As an organization focused on Security Operations, we believe that 'you can't protect what you don't understand,' with understand being the key word. Hence, asset management in the security operations context isn't just 'seeing' an asset; it is having the right 'risk' context of each and every software, hardware and IoT asset at our fingertips," said Jatinder Pal Singh, director of security operations at Informatica.
Annalect announced an agreement with InfoSum, the privacy-preserving data collaboration technology, expanding Annalect's global first-party data management capabilities. As a result, marketers can connect their own first-party data to a greater number of data sources and deliver richer, more actionable consumer insights, while protecting consumer privacy and data integrity of each party.
Israeli cybersecurity startup Authomize, which has developed an automated, cloud-based authorization governance and management Solution, emerged from stealth mode this week. With $6 million in seed funding from Blumberg Capital, Microsoft's M12 venture fund, and Entrée Capital, Authomize has developed a technology called "SmartGroups", which aggregates data in real-time from multiple IT systems and dynamically infers which it determines are the "Right-sized" permissions.
Networking giant Cisco said Friday that it has agreed to acquire Kenna Security, a privately held cybersecurity company focused on vulnerability management technology. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Kenna provides a risk-based vulnerability management platform that helps organizations identify and determine which vulnerabilities pose the highest risk so that security teams don't waste valuable time on weaknesses that are unlikely to be exploited.