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Components for secure remote work
Cyber ​​Security Access Zero trust Networm

The possibilities of digital technologies are making the daily commute to an office building, in which one works for eight hours, increasingly an outdated construct. As has been shown in the course of the pandemic crisis in recent months, there is an extremely high level of productivity, especially in remote work. Nevertheless, companies are asking themselves whether the concept has a future in their organization. If remote work is to be set up permanently for a large part or even the entire workforce, IT teams must find a solution that harmonizes productivity and scalability with a zero trust security approach ...

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Bitglass receives top rating SASE platform
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

Cloud security provider Bitglass received the highest number of points for all nine evaluation criteria in the KuppingerCole Market Compass on Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASBs). The report covers providers who are supposed to solve the problems of security and compliance when using cloud services. The criteria are security, interoperability, ease of use, provisioning, detection, access control, data security, compliance and the management of the corresponding overall position. KuppingerCole has included Bitglass in its CASB Compass for the fourth time. In addition to the top ratings in all categories, the CASB was selected by Bitglass as the “Featured for Innovation” solution this year….

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Enemies in the home office
Home office danger security

In the area of ​​IT security and home office, the burdens are not distributed in favor of the companies: While they have to permanently take all security measures appropriate to the threat situation across their entire IT landscape, attackers can use a small weak point to cause massive damage. Unsecured end devices in the company or in the home office, cloud and IaaS applications, poorly secured networks or surfing the World Wide Web open up numerous opportunities for hackers to infiltrate companies and steal data. Since the latter can be easily turned into money, cyber criminals have a correspondingly high level of motivation to refine their attack techniques and ...

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Bitglass receives patent for cloud access control
B2B Cyber ​​Security ShortNews

Bitglass receives basic patent for cloud access control. New SAML relay enables transparent real-time controls of cloud services. The cloud security provider Bitglass has received a patent for its fundamental invention of a SAML relay for transparent real-time access control of cloud services (US Patent No. 10.757.090). Since the patent application was filed in 2015, numerous leading cloud security providers have implemented the technology. With the SAML relay, a security broker or proxy - also known as a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) - can be transparently integrated into the traffic between users and cloud services during the registration process. After the user has logged in, the CASB checks their risk profile ...

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Bitglass Insider Threat Report
Security IT budget

The latest Bitglass Insider Threat Report states: 61 percent of all companies were exposed to insider attacks. Even in the pandemic crisis, 73 percent do not increase their budget for security. Cloud security provider Bitglass has published its Insider Threat Report 2020. Bitglass worked with a leading cybersecurity community to survey IT professionals around the world to find out how companies handle privacy and budgeting issues with insider threats. New challenges in the face of insider threats Careless employees or those who are up to evil pose a significant risk for companies: The majority of the companies surveyed (61 percent) reported ...

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Cybersecurity in digital due diligence
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Good cybersecurity plays an important role in mergers and acquisitions. In the major Marriott data scandal in 2018, security was not given sufficient attention in advance. Mergers & Acquisitions (M & As) offer significant opportunities for companies to achieve rapid growth or gain competitive advantage. These range from the pooling of resources to the diversification of the product and service portfolio, the opening up of new markets to the acquisition of new technologies or specialist knowledge. Every M&A transaction is associated with a complex and detailed due diligence review, i.e. a careful review of the entire company. On…

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