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Cato Networks, provider of the world's leading single-vendor SASE platform, announced today that it has been awarded the 2023 "Product Leadership Award" by Frost & Sullivan for its Cato SSE 360, a key component of the Cato SASE Cloud platform. The Cato SSE 360 is a cloud-native security platform built using the Cato Single Pass Cloud Engine (SPACE) architecture and converges SWG, NGFW, IPS, NGAM, CASB, DLP, RBI, and ZTNA. The Cato SSE 360 is...

A recent study from Lookout, Inc., has released new findings that showcase the rise of data breaches in the financial services industry. The report found that 70% of IT leaders surveyed via the Gartner Peer Community reported a significant increase in data breaches compared to previous years. As the new working landscape continues to evolve at a rapid pace, financial institutions are required to adapt swiftly in order to protect their valuable data. As the attack surface...

The IT Security Guru, working in conjunction with market research firm Censuswide and cybersecurity PR agency Eskenzi PR, has uncovered some shocking statistics relating to scams and the cost of living crisis. The results of the survey found that 11% of Brits were tempted to engage in ‘illegal or illicit online behaviour’ in order to help manage the fallout from the cost of living crisis. This statistic becomes even more concerning when focused on younger...

In celebration of the individuals making a massive impact to the digital journeys of some of the region’s biggest organisations DTX has launched its top 50 list for 2023.   These are the innovators, the community builders and the unsung heroes of the North West tech industry who deserve to have their stories told.   Using the research and collaboration skills that have made DTX a household name in its field, the team has now created...

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced it has been recognised as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Software Composition Analysis, Q2 2023. The report identifies the 12 most significant vendors in the software composition analysis (SCA) market and evaluates them against 32 criteria grouped into three high-level categories: current offering, strategy, and market presence. Synopsys' Black Duck® SCA solution received among the highest scores in the market presence category and ranked second in the current offering...

Cato Networks, provider of the world’s leading single-vendor SASE platform, announced today a new SASE throughput record, achieving 5 Gbps on a single encrypted tunnel with all security inspections enabled. Cato is also simplifying multicloud and hybrid cloud networking and security with cloud cross-connect, a high-speed, SLA-backed, direct connection between Cato and nearly any cloud provider worldwide. Both capabilities extend SASE to meet the needs of today’s large, cloud-centric enterprises, and both are currently available. ...

TechUK announced the publication of its UK tech plan on the 6th of June 2023. Alongside a thousand members of SMEs, global businesses etc., the plan lays out ideas for the next incoming government on “digital regulation, economic reform and public service reform” to leverage technology for a “better Britain”. The plan determines 18 areas that it calls ‘summary of opportunities’. This includes making the UK one of the most trusted, safe and secure places...

With data from its SecurityCoach product, KnowBe4 has revealed the top 10 risky behaviours that employees have engaged in on their work devices. SecurityCoach helps IT/security professionals to develop a strong security culture by enabling real-time security coaching of their users in response to risky security behaviour. Leveraging an organisation’s existing security stack, IT/security professionals can configure their real-time coaching campaigns to immediately deliver a SecurityTip to their users related to a detected event. The...

New research by Armis shows organisations in the U.K. are facing immediate cybersecurity challenges stemming from a heightened regulatory environment, staffing and recruitment difficulties and an expanded attack surface.  In this complex environment, threat intelligence has become the top priority on their agenda, but with inventory information often updated infrequently, annually or quarterly in some cases, and a skewed view of what is connected to the network, security breaches are becoming more common. “Technology environments continue...