Ian Barker

Microsoft introduces process mining to help drive business insights

Among today's announcements coming out of Microsoft Inspire is news that Power Automate Process Mining will become generally available to all channels on August 1st.

Using AI it will enable organizations to easily understand what is happening across their business, maximize process insights, use out-of-box recommendations to reduce the complexity of processes, transform operations, and drive continuous process improvement with automation and lowcode apps.

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Don't walk the walk when creating passwords

When you're creating a new password in a hurry it's tempting to choose keys that are adjacent to each other on the keyboard. In security circles this is known as a 'walk pattern'.

Of course this is horribly insecure but it's also worryingly common. New research from Specops has analyzed an 800 million password subset of its larger Breached Password Protection database to find the top keyboard walk patterns in compromised password data.

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60 percent of consumers prefer a fintech app to an accountant

Fintech apps have simplified financial management to the point where 60 percent of people will now seek advice from personal finance tools before reaching out to financial professionals.

A new survey from Capterra makes gloomy reading for accountants as it finds 64 percent of fintech users feel that these tools have significantly reduced their reliance on financial advisors.

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Businesses struggle to make decisions due to 'analysis paralysis'

In difficult economic times businesses need to make decisions quickly and data is a key part of enabling those choices.

But research from analytics cloud platform Alteryx shows enterprises are struggling to make timely, insight-driven decisions because of 'analysis paralysis' caused by issues around ownership of and access to data.

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Why SOCs need urgent modernization [Q&A]

Security Operations Centers (SOCs) aim to detect, investigate, remediate, and restore organizational systems to a fully functional, secure state, whether it's defending against insider threats, data exfiltration attempts, or malware attacks.

However, examining the daily issues faced by many SOCs reveals a concerning array of challenges that place increasing pressure on the work of SOCs and the dedicated professionals who manage them.

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Gaps in digital rights management pose serious risk

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Serious gaps in digital rights management could expose private and public sector organizations to security and compliance risks.

A new 'Sensitive Content Communications Privacy and Compliance' report from Kiteworks finds many organizations lack unified tracking, control, and security of private data that is sent, shared, and transferred with third parties, which creates significant risk of unauthorized access, both malicious and accidental.

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Why hybrid working needs better consolidation of IT [Q&A]

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As the pandemic forced many businesses to adopt remote work, IT departments had to quickly adapt to new infrastructures and tools to support their employees from a distance.

But as hybrid working starts to become permanent businesses are reviewing their tech investments and seeking to provide a better remote user experience.

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More than half of enterprises overwhelmed by data

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Today's typical large organization is holding 35 petabytes of data across its systems and this is expected to double by 2025. But 75 percent of IT leaders are concerned that their current infrastructure won't be able to scale to meet this demand.

A new report, from infrastructure specialist Hitachi Vantara, shows that while technologies like generative AI are spurring a goldrush to greater insights, automation, and predictability, they are simultaneously putting pressure on the already-strained infrastructure and hybrid cloud environments on which they run.

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Facebook and Microsoft are the most popular phishing bait

A new report reveals the most impersonated brands in phishing attacks for the first half of 2023, with Facebook taking the top slot, followed by Microsoft.

The report from email security company Vade, shows Facebook accounted for 18 percent of all phishing URLs and Microsoft for 15 percent. Taken together these two accounted for more unique phishing URLs than the next top five brands combined (Crédit Agricole, SoftBank, Orange, PayPal and Apple).

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Security teams continue to hire despite economic uncertainty

The cyber talent shortage is a greater concern for CISOs than ongoing economic uncertainty, according to the latest Information Security Maturity Report from ClubCISO and Telstra Purple.

Insufficient staff is named as the top (51 percent) concern for CISOs when asked which factors most affect their ability to deliver against their objectives.

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Economic uncertainty drives digital transformation efforts

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Enterprises plan to invest $33 million in digital transformation projects in the next 12 months, according to a survey of 600 senior IT decision makers.

But the research, from database platform Couchbase, also finds a shift in priorities. 78 percent of IT decision makers confirm their main priorities for transformation have changed in the last three years, and 54 percent say their digital transformation focus has become more reactive to market changes and customer preferences, in order to help the wider organization stay agile.

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Only two percent of organizations feel confident in their cybersecurity strategies

While 75 percent of organizations have made significant strides to upgrade their infrastructure in the past year and 78 percent have increased their security budgets, only two percent of industry experts are confident in their security strategies, according to a new report.

The study, from critical infrastructure protection specialist OPSWAT, also finds most organizations have embraced public cloud hosting for their web applications, with an overwhelming 97 percent already employing or planning to implement containerization.

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AI will outperform the average hacker in five years -- say hackers

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The latest 'In the Mind of a Hacker' report from Bugcrowd, which includes responses from 1,000 white hat hackers across 85 countries, finds 55 percent saying that generative AI can already outperform hackers or will be able to do so within the next five years.

But despite this, hackers aren't especially worried about being replaced, with 72 percent saying that generative AI will not be able to replicate the creativity of human hackers.

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Organizations lack visibility into malware attacks

While IT security leaders are concerned about attacks that use malware-exfiltrated authentication data, many still lack the necessary tools to investigate the security and organizational impact of these infections and effectively prevent follow-on attacks.

Research from cybercrime analytics company SpyCloud shows 98 percent of over 300 mid-market and enterprise IT security professionals from the US and UK surveyed say better visibility into at-risk applications would significantly improve their security posture.

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Are collaboration tools opening up a backdoor into enterprises? [Q&A]

The pandemic changed the way we work, with more people working from home and fewer in the office. That meant we became much more reliant on tools like Slack and Teams in order to keep in touch with colleagues.

Even though some people are now going back to the office, reliance on these collaboration tools remains high. The dark side of this trend is that cybercriminals have noticed and are increasingly using them as vectors for phishing attacks.

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