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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.

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.