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by Nick Harders, APJ SASE Director, HPE Aruba Networking Source: HPE. Harders. Zero Trust has emerged as a prominent term in cybersecurity discussions, yet it risks becoming an overloaded industry buzzword. With countless vendors touting "Zero Trust" solutions, the essence of what Zero Trust truly entails can easily be lost. Comprehensive frameworks like NIST’s Zero Trust Architecture and Singapore’s GovTech Government Zero Trust Architecture (GovZTA) aim to clarify its principles, but confusion persists regarding implementation and practical application. To prevent Zero Trust from becoming just another marketing term, organisations must adopt a pragmatic approach that prioritises its core principles — comprehensive visibility, least-privilege access, and continuous monitoring.  Visibility Achieving comprehensive visibility is the first step toward effective Zero Trust implementation. This starts with capturing telemetry from your deployed network and security solutions. ...

Salesforce has announced Agentforce 2.0 , the newest version of the first digital labour platform for enterprises. Salesforce describes Agentforce as a complete AI system for augmenting teams with trusted, autonomous AI agents in the flow of work.  This release introduces a new library of prebuilt skills and workflow integrations for rapid customisation, the ability to deploy Agentforce in Slack , and advancements in agentic reasoning and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) . The advances will enable companies to scale their workforce with customised agents capable of handling complex, multi-step tasks with even more precision and accuracy, the company said. When teams typically have more work to do than resources available, poorer customer interactions and lengthy backlogs can happen. Organisations are turning to AI to help, but have a low tolerance for inadequate solutions that provide generic responses. According to Salesforce research: Two out of three consumers (67%) are...

Source: Trend Micro. Damian Leach, CIO of Seaco (left), and Winson Lau, Senior Business Development Director of Trend Micro (right), at the signing ceremony. Seaco, an established key player in the shipping container leasing industry, has selected Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity solutions provider, as its strategic security vendor to support its security tooling consolidation strategy. This partnership marks a significant milestone in Seaco’s journey toward a unified and streamlined cybersecurity platform. Operating across an international network of 23 offices, and interfacing with approximately over 500 depot and port locations worldwide, Seaco required a comprehensive security solution that could effectively protect both employee and customer data across all interactions and devices. The company sought to balance cost, complexity, capability, visibility, and control across their cybersecurity platforms. "Trend Micro will enable us to meet our security demands whilst prov...