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Associated Press
3 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Why Cyber Specialists Thrive During Economic Downturns
Cary, NC, May 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- While tech giants have eliminated 300,000+ jobs over two years, cybersecurity professionals face a different reality. Organizations desperately need cybersecurity talent, yet many positions remain unfilled -- not from lack of demand, but because employers won't settle for candidates without specialized skills. This creates a unique opportunity: professionals who invest in targeted cybersecurity education and security certifications can build recession-proof careers while others struggle. INE Security, a leading provider of cybersecurity training and certifications, analyzed this market dynamic and found that specialization doesn't just improve job prospects, it multiplies career value exponentially. 'Specialization in cybersecurity creates a career insurance policy that generalists simply can't match,' explains Dara Warn, CEO of INE Security. 'While general IT professionals compete on price and availability, specialists compete on unique value. When you're one of the few professionals in your region who can architect zero-trust implementations or perform advanced mobile pentesting, you're not just employed – you're essential.' The Math That Matters: Why Specialization Pays The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 33% growth for information security analysts through 2033, which is ten times faster than the average occupation. But despite 87% of companies reporting cybersecurity skill gaps (McKinsey & Company), many are willing to wait for the right candidates rather than hire generalists. This creates a mathematical advantage for specialists. When hundreds apply for general IT roles, specialized positions like mobile security pentester or cloud architect often struggle to find even five qualified candidates. That scarcity translates directly into negotiating power and compensation opportunities. The $4.88 Million Question With the average cybersecurity breach spiking 10% over the last year to $4.88 million (IBM Ponemon Institute), organizations can't afford mediocre security. They need specialists who can prevent, detect, and respond to threats immediately. Since 68% of breaches involve human elements like social engineering, according to Verizon's 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, employers seek professionals who understand both technical vulnerabilities and human behavior patterns. This urgency explains why 91% of hiring managers prefer certified candidates (Fortinet) and why specialized roles command premium rates: The Certification Advantage: Real Numbers Professional certifications create measurable career advantages beyond just knowledge validation. Gallup research shows 81% of Americans with professional certifications are employed versus 68% without them. In cybersecurity, this advantage amplifies because security certifications prove competency in high-stakes scenarios. From foundational credentials like Sec+ to advanced pentester certifications, the progression path is clear. Career advancement opportunities expand dramatically with specialized certifications. This motivation helps combat feelings of career stagnation that contribute to burnout, an increasingly critical problem within the cybersecurity industry. But certifications alone aren't enough—employers increasingly demand proven practical experience. Beyond Paper: Why Hands-On Training Multiplies Value The business case is compelling: well-trained cybersecurity teams generate $70,000 in annual savings and 10% productivity increases (IBM). Organizations recognize this ROI, which explains why 67% prefer team members with certifications - they validate both knowledge and practical capability (Fortinet). Modern cybersecurity education leverages cyber ranges and virtual labs that simulate real attack scenarios. This allows professionals to practice incident response, penetration testing, and threat analysis without risking production systems. The result? Professionals who can demonstrate actual competency rather than just theoretical knowledge. Real-World Application: The eMAPT Example INE Security's enhanced Mobile Application Penetration Tester (eMAPT) certification exemplifies this integrated approach. Beyond advanced mobile security methodologies, the program includes extensive hands-on exercises in dedicated cyber ranges that replicate real mobile application infrastructures. Through June 24, 2025, learners can save $200 on the eMAPT certification and gain access to INE Security's updated Mobile Application Penetration Testing Learning Path. Learners practice iOS and Android security assessment against actual vulnerabilities in controlled environments. This combination of security certifications and practical lab experience addresses the core employer demand: verifiable expertise backed by demonstrated capability. The Ultimate Career Insurance Policy The cybersecurity profession rewards those who invest in continuous learning through specialized training. The combination of recognized security certifications, hands-on laboratory experience, and practical skill application creates professionals who thrive regardless of economic conditions. While traditional IT training paths may offer broader options, cybersecurity education provides something more valuable: career resilience in an increasingly uncertain world. As threats evolve and breach costs climb, organizations will continue prioritizing specialists who can deliver immediate value. About INE Security: INE Security is the premier provider of online networking and cybersecurity training and cybersecurity certifications. Harnessing a powerful hands-on lab platform, cutting-edge technology, a global video distribution network, and world-class instructors, INE Security is the top training choice for Fortune 500 companies worldwide for cybersecurity training in business and for IT professionals looking to advance their careers. INE Security's suite of learning paths offers an incomparable depth of expertise across cybersecurity and is committed to delivering advanced technical training while also lowering the barriers worldwide for those looking to enter and excel in an IT career. Kathryn Brown INE [email protected]
Web Release
26-03-2025
- Business
- Web Release
ManageEngine Expands Its Integration Network With 100+ Prebuilt Integrations for Enterprise Identity Management
By Editor_wr Last updated Mar 26, 2025 Dubai, UAE — March 25, 2025 — ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation and a leading provider of enterprise IT management solutions, today announced that AD360, its identity and access management (IAM) platform, is further expanding its integration offerings, by adding over 100 new prebuilt integrations. This expansion is a decisive step in the company's endeavor to strengthen its converged IAM platform capabilities. In addition to the extension of support to popular HRMS, ITSM, SIEM, and other enterprise applications, AD360 also comes with REST API capabilities for custom integration with third-party and in-house applications. Why This Matters: The Enterprise Perspective Large enterprises today face a major challenge: managing various tools with widespread, fragmented data. In a press release titled 'Gartner Identifies the Top Cybersecurity Trends for 2025' (issued March 3, 2025), Gartner® highlights a common challenge for large enterprises: the need to optimize their cybersecurity toolsets for efficiency and security while balancing selections for an average of 45 cybersecurity tools available from over 3,000 vendors. Although enterprises often operate in multi-vendor IT environments out of necessity, this is an added complexity that leads to fragmented identities, resulting in delays in access and increased IT overhead. For example, Gartner's 2024 IAM Leadership Survey found that 54% organizations have seen an increase in the number of identity-related breaches, with one in three organizations experiencing increased business interruptions, financial loss or regulatory penalties from such incidents. As many as 85% of identity-related breaches can be attributed to hacked machine identities such as service and automation accounts. Additionally, according to Verizon's 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, around 31% of all breaches since 2013 involve stolen credentials. With global compliance laws and regulations requiring organizations to maintain accurate and up-to-date identity and access data at all times, keeping these records updated is critical. Seamless integration of identities is no longer just an IT challenge for enterprises; it's a business imperative. 'Our vision is to eliminate identity fragmentation and radically simplify enterprise identity governance,' said Manikandan Thangaraj, vice president at ManageEngine. 'With AD360's expanded integrations, we're empowering businesses to build truly unified digital ecosystems. With this release, we want to help our customers transform identity management from an operational burden into a strategic enabler of productivity, agility, and security. Now, a hospital can auto-provision clinician access in Epic EHR the same day they're hired in Workday, with no coding and no delays.' Enabling Business Agility with Seamless Integrations ManageEngine AD360's integrations leverage industry-standard protocols—including SCIM, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth 2.0, and REST APIs—ensuring seamless compatibility across diverse IT ecosystems. Through an intuitive no-code configuration interface, IT teams can effortlessly establish connections and design automated workflows without specialized programming knowledge, dramatically accelerating implementation timelines from months to mere days. ManageEngine's extensive integration network for identity access management enables: ? Accelerated Value Realization: Enterprises can quickly integrate and automate identity workflows, reducing operational costs, minimizing errors, and enhancing productivity through unified life cycle management and real-time identity synchronization. ? Strategic Flexibility and Choice: Maintain the freedom to integrate with a vast range of enterprise applications without vendor lock-ins, ensuring compatibility, scalability, and support for diverse business needs. ? Advanced Identity Automation: With businesses seeking productivity improvements, AD360 can implement sophisticated, no-code identity orchestration processes to automate critical activities such as user provisioning, access modifications, identity synchronization, and secure offboarding across a company's identity ecosystem. ? Zero-Gap Compliance: Automatically align identity records across HR, IT, and security systems to pass audits for the GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX. 'The interoperability between critical business applications streamlines processes such as onboarding and offboarding, delivering measurable business value and accelerating ROI. Legacy IAM tools often treat integrations as an afterthought, requiring months to integrate an organization's IAM tech stack with ITSM or HCM tools. AD360 helps accomplish this with just a few clicks. It's not just about connecting systems, it's about fundamentally changing how enterprises manage identities while minimizing security risks,' Thangaraj stated. Next Post Nando's UAE, Dubai Autism Center Launch Ramadan Art Initiative Comments are closed.
Syyaha
26-03-2025
- Business
- Syyaha
ManageEngine Expands Its Integration Network With 100+ Prebuilt Integrations for Enterprise Identity Management
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — 26 March 2025 — ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation and a leading provider of enterprise IT management solutions, today announced that AD360, its identity and access management (IAM) platform, is further expanding its integration offerings, by adding over 100 new prebuilt integrations. This expansion is a decisive step in the company's endeavor to strengthen its converged IAM platform capabilities. In addition to the extension of support to popular HRMS, ITSM, SIEM, and other enterprise applications, AD360 also comes with REST API capabilities for custom integration with third-party and in-house applications. Why This Matters: The Enterprise Perspective Large enterprises today face a major challenge: managing various tools with widespread, fragmented data. In a press release titled 'Gartner Identifies the Top Cybersecurity Trends for 2025' (issued March 3, 2025), Gartner® highlights a common challenge for large enterprises: the need to optimize their cybersecurity toolsets for efficiency and security while balancing selections for an average of 45 cybersecurity tools available from over 3,000 vendors. Although enterprises often operate in multi-vendor IT environments out of necessity, this is an added complexity that leads to fragmented identities, resulting in delays in access and increased IT overhead. For example, Gartner's 2024 IAM Leadership Survey found that 54% organizations have seen an increase in the number of identity-related breaches, with one in three organizations experiencing increased business interruptions, financial loss or regulatory penalties from such incidents. As many as 85% of identity-related breaches can be attributed to hacked machine identities such as service and automation accounts. Additionally, according to Verizon's 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, around 31% of all breaches since 2013 involve stolen credentials. With global compliance laws and regulations requiring organizations to maintain accurate and up-to-date identity and access data at all times, keeping these records updated is critical. Seamless integration of identities is no longer just an IT challenge for enterprises; it's a business imperative. 'Our vision is to eliminate identity fragmentation and radically simplify enterprise identity governance,' said Manikandan Thangaraj, vice president at ManageEngine. 'With AD360's expanded integrations, we're empowering businesses to build truly unified digital ecosystems. With this release, we want to help our customers transform identity management from an operational burden into a strategic enabler of productivity, agility, and security. Now, a hospital can auto-provision clinician access in Epic EHR the same day they're hired in Workday, with no coding and no delays.' Enabling Business Agility with Seamless Integrations ManageEngine AD360's integrations leverage industry-standard protocols—including SCIM, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth 2.0, and REST APIs—ensuring seamless compatibility across diverse IT ecosystems. Through an intuitive no-code configuration interface, IT teams can effortlessly establish connections and design automated workflows without specialized programming knowledge, dramatically accelerating implementation timelines from months to mere days. ManageEngine's extensive integration network for identity access management enables: ● Accelerated Value Realization: Enterprises can quickly integrate and automate identity workflows, reducing operational costs, minimizing errors, and enhancing productivity through unified life cycle management and real-time identity synchronization.● Strategic Flexibility and Choice: Maintain the freedom to integrate with a vast range of enterprise applications without vendor lock-ins, ensuring compatibility, scalability, and support for diverse business needs.● Advanced Identity Automation: With businesses seeking productivity improvements, AD360 can implement sophisticated, no-code identity orchestration processes to automate critical activities such as user provisioning, access modifications, identity synchronization, and secure offboarding across a company's identity ecosystem. ● Zero-Gap Compliance: Automatically align identity records across HR, IT, and security systems to pass audits for the GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX.
Zawya
26-03-2025
- Business
- Zawya
ManageEngine expands its integration network with 100+ prebuilt integrations for enterprise identity management
ManageEngine AD360 expands its integration support, with 100+ new ready-to-use integrations These integrations empower enterprises for seamless, scalable identity management across diverse IT applications Explore the complete lineup of integrations available in AD360 at Dubai, UAE — ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corporation and a leading provider of enterprise IT management solutions, today announced that AD360, its identity and access management (IAM) platform, is further expanding its integration offerings, by adding over 100 new prebuilt integrations. This expansion is a decisive step in the company's endeavor to strengthen its converged IAM platform capabilities. In addition to the extension of support to popular HRMS, ITSM, SIEM, and other enterprise applications, AD360 also comes with REST API capabilities for custom integration with third-party and in-house applications. Why This Matters: The Enterprise Perspective Large enterprises today face a major challenge: managing various tools with widespread, fragmented data. In a press release titled "Gartner Identifies the Top Cybersecurity Trends for 2025" (issued March 3, 2025), Gartner® highlights a common challenge for large enterprises: the need to optimize their cybersecurity toolsets for efficiency and security while balancing selections for an average of 45 cybersecurity tools available from over 3,000 vendors. Although enterprises often operate in multi-vendor IT environments out of necessity, this is an added complexity that leads to fragmented identities, resulting in delays in access and increased IT overhead. For example, Gartner's 2024 IAM Leadership Survey found that 54% organizations have seen an increase in the number of identity-related breaches, with one in three organizations experiencing increased business interruptions, financial loss or regulatory penalties from such incidents. As many as 85% of identity-related breaches can be attributed to hacked machine identities such as service and automation accounts. Additionally, according to Verizon's 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, around 31% of all breaches since 2013 involve stolen credentials. With global compliance laws and regulations requiring organizations to maintain accurate and up-to-date identity and access data at all times, keeping these records updated is critical. Seamless integration of identities is no longer just an IT challenge for enterprises; it's a business imperative. "Our vision is to eliminate identity fragmentation and radically simplify enterprise identity governance," said Manikandan Thangaraj, vice president at ManageEngine. "With AD360's expanded integrations, we're empowering businesses to build truly unified digital ecosystems. With this release, we want to help our customers transform identity management from an operational burden into a strategic enabler of productivity, agility, and security. Now, a hospital can auto-provision clinician access in Epic EHR the same day they're hired in Workday, with no coding and no delays." Enabling Business Agility with Seamless Integrations ManageEngine AD360's integrations leverage industry-standard protocols—including SCIM, SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth 2.0, and REST APIs—ensuring seamless compatibility across diverse IT ecosystems. Through an intuitive no-code configuration interface, IT teams can effortlessly establish connections and design automated workflows without specialized programming knowledge, dramatically accelerating implementation timelines from months to mere days. ManageEngine's extensive integration network for identity access management enables: Accelerated Value Realization: Enterprises can quickly integrate and automate identity workflows, reducing operational costs, minimizing errors, and enhancing productivity through unified life cycle management and real-time identity synchronization. Strategic Flexibility and Choice: Maintain the freedom to integrate with a vast range of enterprise applications without vendor lock-ins, ensuring compatibility, scalability, and support for diverse business needs. Advanced Identity Automation: With businesses seeking productivity improvements, AD360 can implement sophisticated, no-code identity orchestration processes to automate critical activities such as user provisioning, access modifications, identity synchronization, and secure offboarding across a company's identity ecosystem. Zero-Gap Compliance: Automatically align identity records across HR, IT, and security systems to pass audits for the GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX. "The interoperability between critical business applications streamlines processes such as onboarding and offboarding, delivering measurable business value and accelerating ROI. Legacy IAM tools often treat integrations as an afterthought, requiring months to integrate an organization's IAM tech stack with ITSM or HCM tools. AD360 helps accomplish this with just a few clicks. It's not just about connecting systems, it's about fundamentally changing how enterprises manage identities while minimizing security risks," Thangaraj stated. About AD360 ManageEngine AD360 is a unified identity platform that seamlessly connects people, technology and experiences while giving enterprises full visibility and control over their identity infrastructure. It offers automated life cycle management; secure SSO; adaptive MFA; and risk-based governance, auditing, compliance and identity analytics—all from a single, intuitive console. With extensive out-of-the-box integrations and support for custom connectors, AD360 easily integrates into existing IT ecosystems to enhance security and streamline identity operations. Trusted by leading enterprises across healthcare, finance, education, and government, AD360 simplifies identity management, fortifies security and ensures compliance with evolving regulatory standards. For more information, please visit About ManageEngine ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corporation that offers comprehensive on-premises and cloud-native IT and security operations management solutions for global organizations and managed service providers. Established and emerging enterprises rely on ManageEngine's real-time IT management tools to ensure the optimal performance of their IT infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, endpoints, and more. ManageEngine has 18 data centers, 20 offices and 200+ channel partners worldwide to help organizations tightly align their business to IT. For more information, please visit the company site, follow the company blog and get connected on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
Forbes
21-03-2025
- Business
- Forbes
The Human Factor: Redefining Cybersecurity In The Age Of AI
With 74% of breaches starting with people, securing the human layer is cybersecurity's most urgent ... More priority. It is a common mantra in cybersecurity that humans are the weakest link. It's a notion I often push back on, because it is generally used as a sort of tacit excuse for why cybersecurity tools or processes fail, but there is also an element of truth to it. One of the key takeaways from Verizon's 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report is that people are the problem. Not intentionally, of course—but whether by mistake, manipulation, or malicious intent, human actions or inactions played a role in 74% of breaches last year. That statistic should serve as a wake-up call for any organization still focused on hardening its networks while neglecting the individuals who interact with them. The report underscores what many security leaders have long suspected. Attackers aren't battering down firewalls or exploiting obscure technical vulnerabilities at scale anymore—they're exploiting people. And they're succeeding. The data paints a clear picture: errors, misuse of privileges, social engineering, and stolen credentials remain the top causes of breaches. It's not surprising when you consider today's work environment. Hybrid and remote work have expanded digital attack surfaces, forcing employees to juggle multiple communication and collaboration tools. Add in an onslaught of sophisticated phishing emails, fake login pages, and cleverly crafted pretexting attacks, and you have a recipe for disaster. 'Technology exists to serve people,' says Scott Crawford, information security research head at 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. 'But whenever they have the opportunity to interact with it, the potential exists that human activity can be manipulated for malicious ends.' And that manipulation is happening at scale. Social engineering campaigns, business email compromise, and credential theft are surging. Misconfigurations in cloud services—often due to human error or oversight—are creating unintentional gaps in security. Even well-intentioned employees can become an organization's weakest link. 'There is a 20-year-old Gartner prediction that human error would account for 75% of breaches,' notes Richard Stiennon, chief research analyst at IT-Harvest and author of 'Security Yearbook 2025.' 'It is not a surprise. So yeah, the simple stuff is exploited the most.' The growing body of evidence points to one conclusion: Organizations need to reinforce security where attackers are focusing—on people. This means going beyond traditional perimeter defenses and endpoint security. It requires an integrated strategy that protects email communications, secures collaboration platforms, and applies robust data loss prevention policies. In short, organizations need to secure the 'human layer'—the interface where people, technology, and data intersect. Scott Crawford emphasizes, 'The challenge with limiting risk is to do so without inhibiting technology's benefits. But there are a number of opportunities today. Education and awareness training can lay a foundation, but advances in behavioral analytics, authentication and multifactor techniques, and zero trust implementations can all help mitigate exposure.' That's why reinforcing the human layer doesn't stop with education alone. It includes embedding smarter defenses into the tools employees use every day, detecting risky behavior patterns, and automating threat response before human error leads to compromise. One example of how organizations are addressing this challenge comes from Proofpoint and Microsoft. The two companies announced an expanded global strategic alliance focused on reinforcing human-centric cybersecurity. At the heart of the partnership is Proofpoint's decision to move its platform to Microsoft Azure. By leveraging Azure's robust AI capabilities and trusted cloud infrastructure, Proofpoint plans to scale its ability to detect and neutralize threats aimed at users. The integration extends deep into Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Sentinel, allowing security teams to automate threat detection and response, enrich their analytics, and enhance data protection. 'Built on top of Microsoft Azure, we're delivering advanced, preventive protection for the most important layer in the cybersecurity ecosystem—the human layer,' explained Darren Lee, executive vice president and general manager of Proofpoint's Threat Protection Group, in a press release. With Nexus intelligence technologies, Proofpoint combines AI models, behavior analysis, and threat intelligence to proactively detect and neutralize risks. One of the critical components of the alliance is Proofpoint's Targeted Attack Protection, which integrates with Sentinel to provide enriched data for extended detection and response workflows. The partnership also tackles emerging risks from generative AI tools. These tools, while powerful productivity enhancers, introduce new data leakage concerns that traditional security controls struggle to manage. Proofpoint's platform includes DLP features designed to monitor and control the flow of sensitive data in generative AI contexts. Despite these advances, Richard Stiennon offers a reality check: 'Never lose sight of the fact that a targeted attack can get around any of the things deployed at the human layer.' This sobering truth highlights that while securing the human layer is critical, it's not a panacea. Advanced persistent threats, highly targeted spear-phishing campaigns, and insider threats will always require layered defenses, sophisticated detection, and rapid response capabilities. It's why comprehensive security strategies must balance prevention with detection and resilience. The reality is stark: nearly three-fourths of breaches involve human failure in some form. If cybersecurity strategies don't prioritize protecting the human layer, they're leaving the most exploited vector wide open. As Scott Crawford points out, 'As adversaries look to cast a wider net across potential human targets, the way people interact in processes such as IT service support also presents opportunities for organizations to learn from incidents and take advantage of new and emerging ways to increase awareness of potential threats.' The Proofpoint-Microsoft alliance is one example of the shift toward people-centric security—one that many organizations will need to follow. By combining AI, automation, and tight integrations with the tools employees rely on, they're providing a roadmap for reducing human risk and improving overall security posture. As attackers continue to evolve their tactics, organizations must do the same. Reinforcing security at the human layer isn't just a good idea; it's a business imperative.
