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The cybersecurity talent shortage will get worse,
say 62% of CISOs
fit (10%). The report explores the relatively new role of the
CISO, as information security prevails as an issue that
affects businesses of every size.
It finds that information security is more than a technical
issue; it blends risk, strategic vision and knowledge of the
threat landscape with people and data management.
The research analysed responses from 500 cybersecurity
executives working in businesses with 500 or more
employees across the US, Europe and APAC.
total of 62% of CISOs think the global
cybersecurity talent shortage will get worse over
the next five years, according to Global Snapshot:
The CISO in 2020, a new report exploring the role and
demographics of Chief Information Security Officers
(CISOs), as well as the challenges they face, by Marlin
Hawk, the global executive search firm. “As the need to protect customer data grows, business
leaders have been attempting to work out how best to
respond to this new reality and most importantly, whose
responsibility it should be. The constant cyberthreat has
completely changed the way boards around the world
approach risk and it’s an issue that every business
leadership team has had to respond to,” said John-Claude
Hesketh, Global Managing Partner at Marlin Hawk.
The report suggests that the demands of such a rapidly
evolving role mean that senior candidates often lack the
right level of technical knowledge (34%), don’t have the
right experience (30%) or simply aren’t the right cultural “The challenge now is for board directors to work out how
to value these senior cybersecurity professionals and
integrate them into strategic business decisions, while
navigating a dramatic global talent shortage.”
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SOPHOS LAUNCHES XSTREAM
VERSION OF XG FIREWALL
ophos has introduced a new
Xstream architecture for
Sophos XG Firewall with high
performance Transport Layer Security
(TLS) traffic decryption capabilities
that eliminate significant security risk
associated with encrypted network
traffic. This is often overlooked by
security teams due to performance and
complexity concerns. XG Firewall now
also features AI-enhanced threat analysis
from SophosLabs and accelerated
application performance.
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“As SophosLabs’ research demonstrates,
cybercriminals are boldly embracing
encryption in an attempt to bypass
security products. Unfortunately, most
firewalls lack scalable TLS crypto
capabilities and are unable to inspect
encrypted traffic without causing
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applications to break or degrade network
performance,” said Dan Schiappa, Chief
Product Officer at Sophos. “With the new
Xstream architecture in XG Firewall,
Sophos is providing critical visibility into
an enormous blind spot while eliminating
frustrating latency and compatibility
issues with full support for the latest
TLS 1.3 standard. Sophos’ internal
benchmark tests have clocked a two-
fold performance boost in the new XG
TLS inspection engine as compared
to previous XG versions. This is a
game changer.”
Latency too often deters IT admins
from using decryption, as seen in an
independent Sophos survey of 3,100 IT
managers in 12 countries. The survey
whitepaper, The Achilles Heel of Next-
Gen Firewalls, reports that while 82% of
respondents agreed TLS inspection is
necessary, only 3.5% of organisations
are decrypting their traffic to properly
inspect it. u
Dan Schiappa, Chief Product Officer at Sophos
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