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Despite a quick pivot to digital, most companies did not have a roll out plan: Since the speed of deployment was crucial to workplace productivity, 75% of organizations deployed Microsoft Teams without proper governance or security in place, leaving them vulnerable to internal and external threats. Consistent with the over 145 million daily active Teams users Microsoft recently announced, only 3% of companies do not leverage Teams today.

The memo, from deputy national security advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger, said the private sector has a "Critical responsibility" to protect their businesses against ransomware. "Much as our homes have locks and alarm systems and our office buildings have guards and security to meet the threat of theft, we urge you to take ransomware crime seriously and ensure your corporate cyber defenses match the threat."

Quantum information theory, which has been explored since the beginning of the 20th century, has led to an exciting yet dangerous new prospect: new quantum algorithms to solve computational problems which have thus far proven to be intractable - or at least unachievable within a useful period - by classical computers. Their study, alongside many like it, tells us that quantum technology will present the greatest threat to the security of our critical systems in the history of computing.

Microsoft Teams is getting better security and privacy next month with the addition of end-to-end encrypted 1:1 voice calls. While Microsoft Teams already encrypts data at rest and in transit, it allows administrators to configure automatic recording and transcription of voice calls.

While traditional IT teams and inventory tools provide an IT view of inventory, software support, and licensing, security teams are looking for the security context of assets such as assets that are not running security tools, detection of unauthorized software, internet visibility, and more. Security tools like EDR help secure assets, but do not let security teams know which critical assets are not running EDR, or if databases are visible from the internet? All security teams have defined authorized and unauthorized software policies.

KubeSphere Community announced the general availability of KubeSphere 3.1.0. KubeSphere, as an app-centric distributed operating system running on top of Kubernetes, has further expanded its portfolio to deliver more robust experiences for users across the globe, enabling DevOps teams to run Kubernetes workloads where and when they want with ease and security.

The funding round was led by New York-based Elephant, with participation from DataDome's existing investor ISAI. The cash infusion will enable DataDome to aggressively scale its global sales, marketing, delivery and R&D teams, and puts the company on track to deliver on its ambition to double its Annual Recurring Revenue and its customer base. More than 50% of this growth will come from the US. Observing a 47% increase of bot fraud attacks against digital businesses over the past 6 months, DataDome secures its customers against online fraud.

A recent Windows 10 1909 cumulative update prevents Microsoft 365 desktop users from logging into Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft OneDrive for Business. This issue is caused by the Windows 10 1909 KB5003169 cumulative update released last week as part of the May 2021 Patch Tuesday updates.

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.

Athenahealth and Nuance Communications announced an expansion of their strategic collaboration to include the integration of Nuance's cloud-based Dragon Medical, bringing speech and virtual assistant technology into the athenaOne EHR and Mobile App. The collaboration between Nuance and athenahealth is driven by advances in speech technology and the demonstrated ability to transform clinical documentation and improve productivity through an intuitive voice-driven workflow.