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Many security pros who are doing an excellent job in handling incidents find effectively communicating the ongoing process with their management a much more challenging task. Cynet addresses this gap with the IR Reporting for Management PPT template, providing CISOs and CIOs with a clear and intuitive tool to report both the ongoing IR process and its conclusion.

Datadobi released a report by 451 Research which reveals the major impact that data growth is having on storage management, highlighting the rise in retention of unstructured data exacerbating the storage challenges faced by organizations. The report identifies data growth as the number one storage management challenge in most organizations, ahead of a range of issues such as disaster recovery requirements, cost, and migration.

Thales has announced an expansion of its SafeNet Trusted Access solution, offering customers full access management protection across all applications or services in any IT environment. With SafeNet Trusted Access, customers can authenticate API access, reducing the threat surface within an organization's IT environment.

Elevate Security launched a new platform that addresses one of cybersecurity's biggest unsolved problems - human error - with an intelligent, customized and automated response to employee risk across an organization. Pioneering a new category in cybersecurity, human attack surface management, the Elevate Security Platform ingests the entirety of an organization's data to gain benchmarked visibility into human error, enabling CISOs to proactively tailor security controls and create 'safety nets' for the riskiest employees.

Venafi announced a machine identity management solution that combines the powerful, machine identity lifecycle automation in the Venafi Trust Protection Platform with Intel Software Guard Extensions powered by 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. "Organizations in the throes of digital transformation are consistently grappling with increasingly sophisticated attacks that target their machine identities," said Kevin Bocek, vice president of security strategy and threat intelligence at Venafi.

Headlining the new features are support for design-first API methodology and versioning that make it easy for technical and non-technical users to quickly create new applications around specific APIs; anomaly detection and memory management capabilities that automatically and proactively identify issues, improving platform resilience; and enhancements to Kubernetes-based elastic scaling capabilities that enable organizations to dynamically scale platform resources to meet spike increases in workload demands. New advanced API management capabilities incorporated in the release add tools and support for API developers who prefer to take a "Design-first" approach to API creation.

Cobalt Iron announced that its Compass enterprise software-as-a-service backup platform now enables seamless management of Google Cloud Platform virtual machine snapshots. Through this new capability, Compass users are able to manage backup retentions and schedules for GCP VM snapshots using the Compass Commander GUI, the same interface with which they manage their enterprise backups.

HUMAN published a research into security leaders' perceptions of and responses to sophisticated bot attacks. Bot attacks Nearly half of respondents believe their organization would be susceptible to a sophisticated bot attack.

There are four primary myths about cloud-based PKI solutions and digital certificate lifecycle automation that have kept organizations from adopting such solutions. Eliminating the pain of manual digital certificate management requires dispelling these myths and learning how to maximize the benefits of today's cloud-based solutions using PKI best practices.

Cyber asset management and governance solutions provider JupiterOne on Tuesday announced that it raised $30 million in Series B funding, which brings the total raised by the company to more than $49 million. The funding round was led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from previous investor Bain Capital Ventures.