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BehavioSec announced that it has extended its patented technology and BehavioSense platform into a SOC/ISO compliant, hosted-version and a cloud-native, SaaS version. These new versions will help more organizations meet compliance and cloud mandates, support frictionless multi-factor authentication, and gain access to the advanced behavioral biometrics technology - which until now - has only been employed within the world's largest banks, e-Identity providers, and online retailers.

Google Cloud this week announced new security offerings for its customers, including Autonomic Security Operations to improve security operations centers and Cloud Intrusion Detection System for network-based threat detection. Autonomic Security Operations, the Internet giant says, represents a "Stack of products, integrations, blueprints, technical content, and an accelerator program" meant to help customers leverage Chronicle and Google technology and expertise to advance their SOC. A collection of philosophies, practices, and tools, Autonomic Security Operations should help organizations improve their resilience against cyberattacks, with an automated approach to threat management.

SOC burnout is real: 3 preventative steps every CISO must takeFor those that spend every day as a security professional and for anyone who truly appreciates the demands applied to these essential security team members, burnout is a harsh reality. Cloud security skills in high demandCloud security is critically important for organizations across the globe as adoption of cloud infrastructure continues to grow at a rapid clip.

The CISO makes it clear that the SOC/IR team is empowered to focus on identifying and dismantling adversaries, full stop. The CISO ensures the SOC/IR team has access to experts when it counts.

To select a suitable virtual SOC solution for your business, you need to think about a variety of factors. Flexible extension of your security team: Beyond 24/7 monitoring, a virtual SOC must also include threat hunting and research, data engineering and science, and solution architects that work as a seamless extension to your team.

Deepwatch launched deepwatch MOBILE - a mobile application that gives customers real-time insight into their Security Operations Center and timely threat intelligence delivered to their mobile phone. Deepwatch MOBILE enables customers to interact with their deepwatch Squad, who provide 24/7/365 monitoring services that detect threats and provide guided or automated response.

Gigamon announced ThreatINSIGHT Guided-SaaS NDR, which was purpose built to improve SOC effectiveness and reduce analyst burnout. ThreatINSIGHT alleviates the three most common problems that continue to plague SOC analysts and incident responders.

Kali Linux 2021.2 released: Kaboxer, Kali-Tweaks, new tools, and more!Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2021.2, the latest version of its popular open source penetration testing platform. June 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast: Patch management is back in the spotlightEvery day you look in the security news, there are reports of new ransomware attacks.

According to the study, which polled 2,303 IT security and SOC decision makers across companies of all sizes and verticals, 70% of respondents say their home lives are being emotionally impacted by their work managing IT threat alerts. These finding are corroborated by a recent Forrester study, which found that "Security teams are heavily understaffed when it comes to incident response, even as they face more attacks. Security operations centers need a more-effective method of detection and response; thus, XDR takes a dramatically different approach to other tools on the market today."

PLDA announced the launch of their XpressRICH PCI Express Controller IP for the PCIe 6.0 specification. To compensate for the higher BER, XpressRICH for PCIe 6.0 architecture implements FEC combined with CRC. XpressRICH for PCIe 6.0 architecture also supports the new L0p low power mode, enabling traffic to be transmitted on a reduced set of lanes, reducing power consumption without impacting traffic flow.