As IT complexity continues to rise, businesses are facing an increasingly challenging cybersecurity environment. Ransomware attacks have increased nearly 18 percent over the past year, according to a new report released by Zscaler’s security research arm, ThreatLabz. This surge in activity has significantly disrupted business operations, causing prolonged downtime, data loss, and costly recovery efforts. Here’s what you need to know to keep your business safe and secure.
I spoke with Michael Dickman, Chief Product Officer at observability vendor Gigamon, about observability in the enterprise and the many challenges of network security.
Pure Storage made a couple of significant announcements last week at its annual user event, Pure Accelerate, in Las Vegas. First, the company said it had released three new advanced storage-as-a-service service level agreements for the Pure Storage platform: cyber recovery, resilience and site rebalance. The company also announced new capabilities in the Pure Storage platform aimed at helping information technology and business leaders improve artificial intelligence deployments, enhance cyber resilience and modernize their applications.
Zscaler Inc.‘s Las Vegas Zenith Live ‘24 event in Las Vegas last week featured a wide range of news, from zero-trust security to a new breach detector. Most of the news was unveiled during the keynotes, which featured several executives, including Chief Executive Jay Chaudhry (pictured), Deepen Desai, chief security officer and head of security and research, Senior Vice President of Product Management Dhawal Sharma, and Punit Minocha, executive vice president of business and corporate development.
Cisco Live was held last week in what has become my second home, Las Vegas. I had dubbed this the most important Cisco Live in the Chuck Robbins era, as the company is looking to put a stake in the artificial intelligence ground. Simultaneously, Cisco Systems Inc. is integrating its Splunk acquisitions and reshaping the security business in real time. For most companies, doing one of these things would be all-encompassing, but these are not typical times.