Today’s focus is on Deryck Mitchelson, Field CISO and C-Suite Advisor, EMEA at Check Point Software Technologies Limited. To learn more about how Check Point is tackling growing cyber risks, read on.

The rise of the Internet of Things has led to an explosion in machine accounts. And the Arab Gulf’s pioneering adoption of 5G suggests that IoT use cases will soon increase in number. This leads regional organizations into a new hornet’s nest of identity problems. The accounts for things like services and application pools are not identities.

Proofpoint, Inc., a cybersecurity and compliance company, has released its annual Human Factor report, which provides a comprehensive examination of the three main facets of user risk—vulnerability, attacks, and privilege.

Tanium has announced a new five-day risk assessment that provides a holistic and quantifiable enterprise-wide view of an organization’s risk posture.

Proofpoint, Inc., a cybersecurity and compliance firm, released its annual Voice of the CISO report, which examines the key challenges that chief information security officers face (CISOs).