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Employers must act now to ensure staff have the modern skills to stay productive during hybrid working, says Questionmark. Hybrid working, with staff splitting their week between home and the office, looks set to form the future of work.

IT teams have been forced into compromising security for business continuity at a time of rising threats, a HP report reveals. Pressure to compromise security for business continuity 76% of IT teams admit security took a backseat to business continuity during the pandemic, while 91% felt pressure to compromise security for business continuity.

Security teams spend most of their time preparing their organizations' defenses and doing operational work. Security teams with copious resources can quickly shift between these two modes.

Incident responders and blue teams have a new tool called Chainsaw that speeds up searching through Windows event log records to identify threats. Windows event logs are a ledger of the system's activities, comprising details about applications and user logins.

Microsoft accidentally broke the Start menu and taskbar on systems of Windows Insiders after pushing a Teams promo to the desktops of users running Windows 11 preview builds. While the company didn't explain the reason behind Dev and Beta Channel Insiders experiencing Start menu and taskbar unresponsive and having issues accessing other OS areas, including Settings, developer Daniel Aleksandersen discovered that a buggy promo deployment caused the problem.

Compliance Week conducted a survey which shows the importance of both advanced technology and dedicated teams that can quickly deliver data insights to reduce time and cost and result in better outcomes. "Vast increases in information, changing data privacy and compliance requirements, and growing cybersecurity risks are all contributing to the need for a faster approach to managing and conducting investigations that results in better outcomes."

The webinar breaks down how even large enterprises struggle with time to response. Look at any of the major breaches of the past years and you'll find large security teams that overlooked red flags or mishandled their incident response.

NAS devices under attack: How to keep them safe?Network-attached storage devices are a helpful solution for storing, managing, and sharing files and backups and, as such, they are an attractive target for cyber criminals. 65 vendors affected by severe vulnerabilities in Realtek chipsA vulnerability within the Realtek RTL819xD module allows attackers to gain complete access to the device, installed operating systems and other network devices.

FireEye has launched FireEye XDR, a unified platform designed to help security operations teams strengthen threat detection, accelerate response capabilities, and simplify investigations.

Microsoft is working on adding a spam call notification feature to the Microsoft 365 Teams collaboration platform. Once the new feature rolls out, Microsoft Teams will alert Office 365 users when they're receiving what looks like spam calls.