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Automate for Better Security in 2023

The start of the year is always a great time to see what others believe are strategic imperatives for organizations facing a new and uncertain year. (Heck, we shared our own thoughts over on the VMBlog not long ago!) In one Forbes Technology Council article we read recently the author suggested “embracing automation to enhance cybersecurity” and we found ourselves nodding in agreement. Automating rote, repetitive tasks goes a long way toward minimizing the chance of human error and helps make your staff more attentive to higher-level operations. At a deeper level, automation is becoming an integral part of threat detection and prevention, but mistakes made in simple, everyday tasks in data management can (and do) lead to data breaches. Products that integrate process automation add value to a cybersecurity program.

?Lack of Security Awareness Risks Data Transfers

?According to the site, Cybersecurity Hub, “30 percent of cyber security practitioners say the most dangerous threat at their organization is a lack of cyber security expertise,” and that this lack of expertise is prevalent in unsafe data transfer practices. The lack of awareness translates to risk when individuals use unsecure methods—email, cloud-based file sharing, and other lightweight tools—to send sensitive information outside their organizations. One expert commented, “Without proper security in place files can be intercepted, confidential data can be leaked, and data could also be passed to unauthorized recipients.” Of course, organizations using a secure, managed file transfer platform like Diplomat MFT have already solved that problem.

?Ancient Temple of Poseidon Believed Discovered

?In a location near the village of Samikon on the Peloponnesian peninsula in Greece, archaeologists believe they have found the ancient Temple of Poseidon, lost to the ages due to centuries of geologic, oceanic, and human catastrophe. According to Phys.org, the site currently being excavated was likely located directly on the Ionian Sea when built more than two millennia ago, but now sits inland. The region is known to have been buffeted by earthquakes, volcanic activity, tsunamis, and wars that reshaped the landscape and covered the temple’s ruins.?"The results of our investigations to date indicate that the waves of the open Ionian Sea actually washed up directly against the group of hills until the 5th millennium BCE. Thereafter, on the side facing the sea, an extensive beach barrier system developed in which several lagoons were isolated from the sea," said Andreas V?tt, Professor of Geomorphology at Johannes Gutenberg University, who is part of the team studying the site.

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