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According to the just-released 2020 State of Security Operations survey of 314 enterprise security professionals, enterprise security teams around the world feel that they struggle with the growing pace, volume and sophistication of cyberattacks. Thanks to manual triage processes and disparate and legacy security tools permeating most environments, 28 percent of alerts are simply never addressed, the survey, released Thursday, found.

While 5G sometimes seems like the panacea for just about everything, it will likely intensify the already common friction between NetOps and SecOps teams that will take part in deployments and operations of the 5G mobile network. 5G standardization has an enhanced security framework over 4G, but there are various new implementations and complexities of design, and NetOps and SecOps teams need to come together to achieve greater agility and accommodate changes and challenges to their new mobile networks more quickly and more efficiently.

The struggle to effectively manage high volumes of security alerts and the complexities associated with traditional SIEMs are driving the demand for a new approach to effectively address challenges in the SOC through cloud-native SIEMs combined with security automation capabilities. "Today's security operations teams are faced with constant threats of security breaches that can lead to severe fallout including losing customers, diminished brand reputation and reduced revenue. To effectively minimize risk and bridge the gap, many companies rely on automated solutions that provide real-time analysis of security alerts," said Diane Hagglund, principal for Dimensional Research.

The newly introduced Chef Compliance and Chef Desktop, in addition to notable enhancements to Chef's application delivery capabilities, help organizations enforce and maintain compliance; deploy, manage, and secure desktop, laptop and kiosk workstation fleets and accelerate application definition and delivery. "Enterprises today are striving to do more with less through automation, unifying formerly mission-specific teams to create more efficient IT environments where concrete business outcomes are prioritized over adherence to role-driven processes," said Jim Mercer, research director, DevOps, IDC. "Chef's product portfolio is positioned to help enterprises achieve an everything-as-code ethos and empower teams to cut across silos, with better visibility into and control over secure infrastructure and application definition and delivery."

ThreatQuotient, a leading security operations platform innovator, announced enhancements to their professional services offering, including new Assessment and Consulting Services. First launched in 2017, ThreatQuotient's global Professional Services team has continuously evolved to meet and exceed the changing needs of organizations at all levels of security operations and threat intelligence maturity.

Keysight Technologies, a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced Breach Defense, a security operations platform designed to improve operational security effectiveness. An integral element of the new platform is the Threat Simulator breach and attack simulation solution which enables network and security operations teams to measure the effectiveness of operational security by safely simulating the latest attacks and exploits on live networks.

Security professionals are overconfident in their tools with 50% reporting that they have experienced a security breach because one or more of their security products was not working as expected, according to Keysight. "Enterprises are faced with a continuous stream of cyberattacks that threaten their businesses, and in many cases they attempt to deal with these by buying more security tools. Yet they don't know whether these products are delivering the protection they expect," said Scott Register, vice president, security solutions at Keysight's Network Applications & Security Group.

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Only 16% of security operations professionals think that their SecOps programs have reached the highest maturity level, according to a Siemplify and Cyentia Institute study. The majority of the...

SaltStack, the creators of intelligent automation for IT operations and security teams, announced the general availability of SaltStack Enterprise 6.0 and the new SaltStack SecOps add-on module...