Accountability for cybersecurity risk is shifting outside of IT, and the role of the cybersecurity leader needs to evolve, Gartner says in a new report. According to Gartner, security and risk managers are investing more effort into evaluating and influencing the cyberhealth of external parties, employees are making more decisions with cyber risk implications and […]
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure AD Identity Protection for workload identities that includes purpose-built anomaly detection capabilities for workload identities with user detections to help protect the entire IT environment. According to Microsoft, cloud migrations include software workloads like apps, services or scripts that access cloud resources and have workload identities in […]
Microsoft now offers multi-cloud protection for the cloud industry’s top three platforms by extending the native capabilities for Microsoft Defender for Cloud to the Google Cloud Platform. This follows cloud security support for AWS in Defender for Cloud, which Microsoft released last November during its Ignite conference. According to Microsoft, Defender for Cloud support for […]
Zoom is releasing Zoom Contact Center, a new omnichannel contact center solution the company says is optimized for video and integrated into the same Zoom experience and taking over Zoom Video Engagement Center. According to Zoom, the new offering combines unified communications and contact center capabilities with the usability of the Zoom platform with customer […]
Google is moving into the final phase of its migration from Classic Hangouts to Google Chat for Workspace customers and will make Google Chat the default chat application beginning March 22. Users of Workspace and legacy G Suite Basic and Business that visit classic Hangouts in Gmail on the web or the classic Hangouts mobile […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released a litany of free security tools and resources designed to help organizations advance its security capabilities, including widely used open-source tools and services offered by private and public sector organizations. The catalog of free resources comes amid rising geopolitical tensions that both government agencies and software […]
More than two-thirds were infected with ransomware from a direct email payload, and 60% of those victims paid the ransom, according to new research from cybersecurity and compliance firm Proofpoint. The company’s 2022 State of the Phish Report, the results of a survey of 600 IT professionals and 3,500 workers, reveals that phishing and other […]
Google says there are as many as 400,000 scans for Log4j vulnerabilities against Google Cloud each day, suggesting that IT professionals need to continue to be vigilant and ensure that they remediate vulnerable systems. The claim comes in Google’s Threat Horizons Executive Snapshot this month, a quarterly report from the company’s Cybersecurity Action Team. Google […]
With more and more devices being deployed on the network, IT professionals can now expect to manage everything from endpoints, collaboration tools and firewalls and now to mass communication systems. Gone are the days of hard-wired mass communications systems that require infrastructure separate from existing IT infrastructures, and that is bringing even more technology under […]
Microsoft is positioning itself as a partner in the U.S. government’s push toward a Zero Trust architecture, including the publication of resources designed to help organizations migrate to the cloud and adopt a Zero Trust framework and the release of Azure capabilities to help secure cloud environments. In a new blog, Microsoft outlined several resources, […]
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