From the report, “For the past six years, Puppet has produced the annual State of DevOps Report1 and collected more than 27,000 responses from technical professionals around the world, making it the longest-running and most comprehensive study on the topic of DevOps today. One of the most common requests we’ve gotten over the years is for segmentation of the data by region, industry and company size. In this special report, we’ve segmented the 2017 State of DevOps survey data to dive deeper into trends and patterns we’re seeing in each of these segments.”

A new survey by UBM and Vera Security explores the use of encryption and access controls to understand how organizations currently use these technologies and to identify their top priorities in file security. The results of this research establish the reasons why encryption isn’t more widely used and considers how organizations can use this technology effectively to ensure the protection of their data.

How to make threat intelligence relevant to executives, business stakeholders, security operations and incident responders

Osterman Research conducted an in-depth survey of decision makers and influencers. To qualify for the survey, individuals had to be knowledgeable about the security operations in their organizations and their organizations had to have at least 1,000 employees. A total of 404 surveys were conducted during June and July 2018. This white paper discusses the results of that research and our analysis of the survey data.

From the report, “In this paper, we discuss that while ML has proven to be a powerful tool in detecting malware for many years, the reality is that true AI does not yet exist. The marketing tricks of next-gen vendors are simply making matters all the more confusing for IT decision makers who need to build robust cyber security defences at a time when the threat landscape is becoming all the more precarious.”

In the summer of 2018, AT&T Business and Spiceworks performed a research study with 250 IT leaders. The research revealed that 99% of organizations have a security risk management strategy. However, there is a sharp performance divide between the organizations confident in their risk management strategies (42% called the “Confident Investors”) and organizations who are not (57% called the “Unconfident Investors”).

The goal of this white paper is to bring clarity to cyber threat intelligence. It explains the different categories of CTI and discusses some use cases to illustrate ways it can be applied and utilized to augment security teams’ efficiency and gain an edge over the attackers. Finally, it discusses CrowdStrike’s approach to threat intelligence.

This paper presents the results of a survey that sought to understand how IT decision makers are thinking about the term “software supply chain attacks.”

This report provides insight into threat hunting and the challenge of returning the balance of power for security from the attackers to the defenders.

This e-book offers insight into the entire subject of Cloud Security.

This report details a new Cylance survey of iTnews readers and provides insight into the state of endpoint security.

The Cylance 2017 Threat Report offers valuable analysis on the current state of cybersecurity. The information provided in the report is unavailable anywhere else. This Cylance® study includes research and information drawn from internal data and feedback provided by Cylance customers. The report offers considerable insights into recent threat trends and related security issues.

This paper discusses one possible avenue for improving EDR which is the broader adoption of machine learning techniques.

In March 2018, Tanium commissioned Forrester to conduct a study that analyzes the current state of security and operations tools and how security and operations teams are aligned to manage and support those tools. The study surveyed 200 IT security and operations decision makers in North America responsible for endpoint solutions at their organization.

This paper exerts that there exists very little data on whether companies are winning the war against cyber crime. It seeks to answer several questions with this survey of 270 IT security professionals in North America.

Security automation architecture can improve organizations’ security posture by augmenting or replacing human intervention in the identification and containment of cyber exploits or breaches through the use of such technologies as artificial intelligence, machine learning, analytics and orchestration. Sponsored by Juniper, the purpose of this research is to understand the challenges companies face when deciding how, when and where to implement the right automation capabilities in order to improve productivity, reduce costs, scale to support cloud deployments and ultimately strengthen the security posture of the business. Ponemon Institute surveyed 1,859 IT and IT security practitioners in Germany, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. All participants in this research are in organizations that presently deploy or plan to deploy security automation tools or applications and are familiar with their organizations use of security automation and have some responsibility for evaluating and/or selecting security automation technologies and vendors.

This is DLA Piper’s fourth Tech Index study into the perceptions and attitudes of European technology growth. As ever, we review how attitudes are changing with regard to market developments, shifts in the financial regulatory landscape and government policies designed to spur business innovation in an increasingly uncertain and disruptive world.

This paper presents the research that discusses the findings of a recent global test regarding the preparedness of individuals entering the workforce, to participate in collaborative problem solving. Of note, the report discusses that this problem is causing an inability to face cybersecurity threats.

This report provides an international study of senior management attitudes to leadership development and executive education. It also provides insight into cybersecurity related issues.

This report offers a unique insight into the C-Suite. It pays particular attention to their views on Cybersecurity.

This report provides new mindsets and methods for measuring and minimizing business risk.