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Security Trends for Managed IT Service Providers

The global managed security services market was valued at $19.4 billion in 2017 and is forecast to reach $46.1 billion by 2023 at a CAGR of 14.9%. There has been an upward trend seen in the need for threat-intelligence by several sectors today. Due to an increased requirement to fight against the advanced threat landscape, customers today expect managed IT service providers and MSPs to adopt advanced security technologies to detect better and anticipate potential threats well in time.

Redscan analysis of NIST NVD reveals record number of critical and high severity vulnerabilities in 2020

The report is based on an analysis of more than 18,000 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) logged to NIST’s National Vulnerability Database in 2020. It reveals that well over half (57%) were rated ‘high’ or ‘critical’ severity – the highest recorded figure for any year to date. Our analysis also looks beyond severity scores, detailing the rise of low complexity vulnerabilities as well as those which require no user interaction to exploit.

Budgeting in cybersecurity - Can businesses afford it?

Creating an annual budget is challenging because business owners must consider all expenses in the coming year. Apart from ensuring that everyone is paid, and taxes are taken care of, cybersecurity should be one of the most important factors to consider. Even though there are many methods businesses can use to prevent cybercriminals from stealing information, hackers are always inventing new ways of breaching closed systems.

Security Defender Insights: Improving security visibility in the remote-work reality

This edition of Detectify Security Defenders Insights focuses on best practices on how not to lose security visibility in 2021: For many small to mid-sized tech organizations, security visibility is an increasing challenge. 2020 was the true catalyst to their tech transformation from all in-house to suddenly working from home. This meant a pressured effort to make sure security was top-of-mind especially now that everyone was literally out-of-sight.

OPA + Styra DAS free up time and resources for a CRM solution

Let’s say you were going to plan a security project. (Almost any project, really.) The following might be a pretty solid list of goals to aim for: That’s a pretty solid list - and might even read like “too much to ask for.” Yet, it’s exactly what SugarCRM received after deploying Styra DAS to manage Open Policy Agent (OPA) for Kubernetes guardrails.

Runtime security in Azure Kubernetes Service

Runtime security for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments requires putting controls in place to detect unexpected and malicious behavior across your applications, infrastructure, and cloud environment. Runtime threats include things like: Even if you’re taking advantage of tools like container image vulnerability scanning, Kubernetes pod security policies, and Kubernetes network policies with AKS, not every risk will be addressed.

Cyber Security in 2021: Confident Detection and Response

As the volume and sophistication of cyber threats grow, it’s imperative that companies have the ability to rapidly detect and confidently respond to a variety of threats. Devon Ackerman, Head of Incident Response for Kroll’s Cyber Risk practice in North America shares how security leaders feel their organizations are inadequately resourced to run a mature detection and response program.

Cyber Security in 2021: Beware Increased Assault on Endpoints

The COVID-19 pandemic rushed security teams to find ways to support a largely remote workforce, changing the cyber threat landscape with increased opportunities for criminals to exploit vulnerabilities in the work from home environment. Jason Smolanoff, Global Cyber Risk Practice Leader at Kroll, outlines his one big thing for 2021 when it comes to cyber security: the increased assault on endpoints, which will force information security professionals to gain full visibility into a variety of devices and systems now operating outside of the company network.

Forward Fix: Streamlining and Scaling Automation Workflows

Technical Solutions Architect Glen Turner showcases how Forward can help solve enterprise automation problems. Enterprise IT organizations are promised speed, effectiveness, and efficiency through network automation, but rarely receive it. Foward Enterprise can help. Foward gives you effective network automation through collecting/parsing network state information, normalizing it into a vendor-agnostic data model, and exposing the model for workflow.