For today’s companies, application development, testing, and delivery is the key to staying competitive. Your business needs to speed innovative software products to the market to create better user experiences that earn customer loyalty and win over new customers. 

With today’s treacherous threat landscape, security is a top concern for every company. No matter what size a business is or what industry it belongs to, hackers can find enough value in its corporate and customer data to want to steal it. Cybercriminals can use the applications your company develops to capture and compromise data if you don’t make security part of the DevOps process.

IBM has always prided itself on staying ahead of the curve when it comes to designing technology. The arrival of the highly anticipated IBM Power10 scale-out and release of midrange servers is further proof of Big Blue’s commitment to continuous innovation.

Zero Trust security is a strategy, not a solution. The Zero Trust approach to security is governed by 2 key principles:  

1) Never trust
2) Always verify 

As cyberattacks continue to grow, so does the need for Zero Trust network security. According to TechRadar, global weekly attacks on corporate networks have increased 50% compared to 2020. If your organization hasn’t started to implement Zero Trust best practices, now is the time. But how do you get started?

When it comes to privacy, the last few years have seen a great importance placed on Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). A VPN allows users to create a private network from a public internet connection, offering users anonymity online. In Russia alone, Forbes has estimated that VPN use has skyrocketed 11,253% since the 2022 Russian February crackdown on internet access and free speech.  

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) protects sensitive data by requiring 2 or morefactors to grant access. These factors typically include something you know, something you have, or something you are.  

As small and medium businesses (SMBs) adopt a cloud-first approach to technology that includes complex models, such as hybrid and multicloud, they face new challenges. These challenges include how to manage a complex and distributed infrastructure at scale, achieve end-to-end automation, and develop and test cloud-native apps.

Security incident and event management (SIEM) is emerging as a must-have technology because of the push toward a Zero Trust approach to IT security. SIEM allows companies to achieve the network visibility needed to detect, identify, and respond to threats. Today’s SIEM solutions have evolved to include built-in advanced analytics and the ability to protect cloud environments and endpoints from internal and external threats. 

Research shows that ransomware presents a formidable and increasing threat to companies’ backup data, causing most of the recoveries conducted by managed backup and disaster recovery services providers. The Achilles heel of backup data is that companies must use a multilayered approach to security to combat evolving ransomware attacks.