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Cyber Resilience
Think Tank forecasts
key trends to hit the
cybersecurity industry
Experts including Christina Van
Houten, Chief Strategy Officer
at Mimecast, forecast some of
the major trends they expect to
develop within the cybersecurity
industry this year.
M
imecast Limited,
a leading email
and data security
company, has
announced the
availability of
Commencing a
New Decade: 2020 Predictions, the latest
eBook from the Cyber Resilience Think
Tank (CR Think Tank). This group of
security leaders gathered to reflect on
the past decade and forecast the major
trends expected in 2020 and beyond.
The eBook is designed to provide expert
insight to global industry influencers
on what to expect and how to prepare
for the upcoming security challenges
organisations may face this year. trends that will impact how organisations
approach cybersecurity.
During the CR Think Tank meeting,
much of the discussion centred on the
transformations of the SaaS, InfoSec
and Application Security industries.
The group also covered the challenges
associated with not including security
from the start. According to Malcolm Harkins,
Chief Trust and Security Officer at
Cymatic, DevSecOps has lagged
because of security processes, tools
and procedures that slow down the
development process, but automation
could be the answer. When standards
are automated into the task at hand,
DevSecOps can suit the needs of
development, security and operations.
To best prepare for a strong and strategic
year, the CR Think Tank outlined four key
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1. DevOps and security efforts will
align to mitigate business risk
New features, bug fixes, configuration
changes and much more are delivered
and iterated upon quickly to provide
the best possible end-user and
customer experience. However,
because of the constant iterations and
improvements, security can no longer
be an afterthought. DevOps teams are
dependent on cloud deployments, which
means that security must be top of
mind at every stage of the application
development process.
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