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Last year was challenging in many respects for investors. The unprecedented coronavirus pandemic upended societal norms and rapidly transformed the traditional work environment. It also played at the heartstrings of Wall Street, with the benchmark
S&P 500 losing 34% of its value in less than five weeks during the first quarter.
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Jan 7, 2021 6:00 AM PT
More than 80 percent of 650 cybersecurity and IT professionals surveyed by Check Point Software Technologies in July said their traditional security solutions either do not work at all, or only provide limited functions in the cloud.
This indicates that organizations cloud migrations and deployments are racing ahead of their security teams abilities to defend against attacks and breaches, according to TJ Gonen, head of the company s cloud product line. Their existing security solutions only provide limited protections against cloud threats, and teams often lack the expertise needed to improve security and compliance processes, said Gonen.
Israeli cybersecurity investments jump 70% due to Covid-19
Israel’s cybersecurity industry accounted for 31% of global investments in the sector in the last year, second only to the United States.
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The novel coronavirus has prompted unprecedented cybersecurity threats in all parts of the economy, says Roi Yarom, head of industry empowerment at the Israel National Cyber Directorate.
Israel’s cybersecurity startups have jumped to the challenge – and in tandem posted a 70 percent growth in funding for 2020, raising a record $2.9 billion in 100 transactions.
Israel’s cybersecurity industry accounted for 31% of global investments in the sector in the last year, second only to the United States.
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Jan. 28, 2021
A hacker group considered a proxy for the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah has managed to penetrate internet and mobile phone networks, an Israeli cybersecurity firm said Thursday, revealing what it called a “global espionage” campaign.
According to Tel Aviv-based ClearSky Cyber Security, the group known as Lebanese Cedar used software and techniques linked in the past to Iranian state hackers to breach over 250 servers of targets in the United States, Britain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and Palestinian controlled areas of the West Bank.
“We assess that there are many more companies that have been hacked and that valuable information was stolen from these companies over periods of months and years,” the company said in a report.
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Agencies can leverage Oracle Cloud Marketplace to quickly find and deploy new applications in the cloud to improve operations and better serve constituents
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Oracle Cloud Marketplace is now available for U.S. government customers, empowering agencies to fully automate the deployment of certified solutions directly on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Government customers can now easily deploy applications from a growing library of Oracle and third-party independent software vendors (ISVs) to help support their organizational goals and serve the needs of constituents.
Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a centralized repository of enterprise applications available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Government Cloud.