XDR and MDR: What’s the difference and why does it matter?
The cybersecurity industry loves acronyms and XDR is rising swiftly to the top of the charts of the current lexicon. Extended detection and response (XDR) is a designation …
Worldwide IT spending to total $4.1 trillion in 2021
Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.1 trillion in 2021, an increase of 8.4% from 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. The source of funds for new …
VMware increases visibility, enables compliance and enhances security for containerized applications
VMware unveiled expanded cloud workload protection capabilities to deliver security for containers and Kubernetes. The new solution will help increase visibility, enable …
The impact of the CCPA on companies’ privacy practices
A new DataGrail report examined how millions of California consumers are exercising their privacy rights – to access their data, delete their data, and stop the sale of …
Leaders need to find ways to increase internal audit capacity without increasing budgets
A study of 299 internal audit organizations showed that the function faced both declining budgets and a significantly expanded workload in 2020, according to Gartner. “For …
Jumio raises $150M to fuel innovation and automation
Jumio announced it secured a $150 million investment from Great Hill Partners. This infusion represents the single largest funding round in the digital identity space and …
Compliance department spending plateaued in 2020
A study of 117 organizations in the second half of 2020 showed that compliance department spending was projected to plateau in 2020 after several years of rapid growth, …
The future of IT security: All roads lead to the cloud
More and more applications – and with them workflows and entire business processes – are finding their way into the cloud. Analysts predict that IT security will follow suit, …
Passing a compliance audit in the cloud doesn’t have to be hard
Companies are required to comply with regulations that set standards specific to financial and size thresholds, industry type, customer categories, or other parameters. But …
How to mitigate security risks as cloud services adoption spikes
Millions have flocked to video-conferencing solutions and organizations have relied more heavily on various applications (such as G Suite for end users, Azure for developers, …
Only 12% of enterprises have fully embraced SASE
Although many public and private sector organizations have elements of SASE in their IT stack, only 12% worldwide currently have a comprehensive SASE architecture, according …
For SOC teams, the analytics and automation hype is real
Tools for analytics and automation are providing today’s SOC teams with enhanced visibility, improved productivity, and unlimited scalability—and it couldn’t come at a better …
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