This report provides exactly what its title offers, 10 predictions for developers in 2019.

Automation balances machine-based analysis with human-based domain knowledge to help organizations achieve optimal workflows in the face of staff shortages and alert fatigue, all caused by an increasing number of destructive threats. Yet, 59% of survey respondents indicate that their organizations use low levels or no automation of key security and incident response (IR) tasks. In this new SANS survey, we wanted to understand and explore some of the misconceptions versus facts around automation and what to do about it.

The 2018 Managed Security Report is based on the results of a comprehensive online survey of IT and cybersecurity professionals conducted in July and August of 2018.

This research brief presents key highlights on recent veteran participation in the STEM workforce drawing upon an analysis of the American Community Survey (2012-2016), led by the U.S. Census Bureau. From this data, the research team examined veteran participation across 49 distinct STEM occupations, which are grouped into the following five occupational clusters: Engineering, Information Technology and Computer Science, Life and Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Supervisor/ Management of STEM occupations. Among other analyses, the research team identified year-over-year trends in veteran participation, geographic distribution, and comparisons to non-veterans across all STEM occupations.

This is the fifth annual report from the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre (HCSEC) Oversight Board. HCSEC is a facility in Banbury, Oxfordshire, belonging to Huawei Technologies (UK) Co Ltd (Huawei UK), whose parent company, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, is a Chinese headquartered company which is now one of the world’s largest telecommunications providers.

This report shares findings from a survey conducted of more than 3,100 IT, security and other non-technical professionals. It explores their learning habits, levels of personal and organizational preparedness, and factors that improve their confidence and defensive capabilities. If the key findings below resonate with challenges facing your organization, then you will definitely want to add this to the top of your reading list.

Outsourcing is a fact of life for healthcare organizations, from routine functions such as food services and laundry to regulatory compliance and clinical activities. Large numbers of vendors must be properly managed in order to reduce clinical, financial and regulatory risk. This paper discusses how to reduce complexity in third-party vendor risk management, and how to turn uncertainty and confusion into efficiency and confidence.

State of Cybersecurity 2019 reports the results of the annual ISACA global State of Cybersecurity Survey, conducted in November 2018. While some findings pointed to unforeseen trends, many survey results reinforce previous years’ findings—specifically that the need for trained and experienced cybersecurity professionals vastly outweighs the supply. State of Cybersecurity 2019 provides a distinctive view of cybersecurity from the perspective of those who define the field—cybersecurity managers and practitioners. This is the first report based on the survey, which focuses on the current trends in cybersecurity workforce development, staffing, budget and gender diversity.

This report reveals findings around the cybersecurity landscape. To inform this report they surveyed ,3,200 security leaders asking questions in three categories, Set Up - how do you set yourself up for success, Architecture - what is your approach to vender/solution selection, and finally Breach Readiness and Response.

“It’s difficult to make forecasts, especially about the future,” mused movie mogul, Samuel Goldwyn. With the rapid changes in digital transformation, 2019 is likely to surprise us in significant ways. But one thing is certain: IT predictions for 2019 will include swift expansion into the cloud and solutions for the myriad challenges of providing security, compliance and business continuance across the growing on premise and cloud estates.

AlgoSec recently surveyed 450 C-level executives and senior security and network professionals to investigate the hybrid cloud security strategies of their organizations. The survey revealed that many organizations are embracing hybrid cloud as part of their enterprise infrastructure, and plan to increase their adoption of cloud platforms over the next three years. However, the majority of enterprises do have some serious security concerns and encounter significant challenges when managing security across hybrid environments, both during and after cloud migrations.

This very thorough report offers insight into how criminals take advantage of technology. It also reports on how breakthrough technologies can help financial institutions achieve better results with fewer staff.

This whitepaper is intended to help firms identify the symptoms of SOC Analyst fatigue, recognize the underlying causes and evaluate recommendations for addressing the problem.

Some key headlines from this report include; A majority of the public is more concerned about cyber security that it was five years ago, A majority are confident that companies can protect their data and help in the wake of a breach, Most feel business’ focus on profits could negatively impact cybersecurity commitment. Read on for further insight.

This report takes a look at the threat intelligence of organizations surveyed in 2018. Among the key findings of the report are that organizations are leveraging threat intelligence data for a number of use cases, and many rate themselves fairly competent in their use of threat intelligence to identify and remediate cyber threats.

This report offers some brief but thorough information on issues related to the hiring, retention and education of cybersecurity talent.

From the report, “Demisto recently sponsored an independent, third-party survey conducted with security professionals around the world working for companies ranging from less than 500 employees to greater than 20,000 employees. More than 200 responses were analyzed. The purpose of the survey was to discover challenges faced by incident response teams and how they are addressing them (or not) currently. This is the first industry study to span and cover all aspects of incident response, including SOC location, training issues, tools utilization, and what metrics are being tracked.” Read on to find out more.

This eBook offers insight and advice into automation and how it can create efficiency in operations.

From the report, “This report compares the budgets of global security decision makers at firms spending up to 10%, 11% to 20%, and 21% to 30% of their IT budget on information security. Security leaders can use these budget ranges as a starting point to evaluate their own programs, then compare their product, service, staffing, and other allocations with those of similar firms.” Read on to find out more.

From the report, “With endpoint security products continuing to be at the tip of the spear of cyber defenses for years to come, the question is how to ensure the best possible security posture. No matter which way an endpoint security buyer turns, there is no one magic bullet. It is likely that a layered approach with multiple different technologies working together is required.” Read on to find out why.

The 2019 SIEM Survey Report represents one of the most comprehensive surveys on SIEM to date, designed to explore the latest trends, key challenges, and solution preferences for SIEM.