Access Point: Weekly News Roundup For IT Executives – August 16, 2024

Access Point is a weekly roundup of major tech news for IT executives on the go. This edition covers August 12-August 16.

In this week’s news for IT executives:

Convincing The C-Suite To Fund Cybersecurity Projects

Convincing the C-suite to invest in cybersecurity initiatives is a significant challenge. IT leaders often face an uphill battle trying to align executives with the costs associated with substantial security upgrades. These discussions can be particularly complex when addressing nuanced concepts like updating the company’s cybersecurity to align with a zero-trust or NIST framework.

Expert Says There Are 5 Key Aspects For IT Leaders To Ponder After The CrowdStrike Outage

A risk management and software QA assurance expert weighs in on lessons that can be learned after the CrowdStrike debacle.

Cockroach Labs CEO: Being Mid-Sized Doesn’t Mean You Don’t Have Big Database Needs

Cockroach Labs' co-founder and CEO, Spencer Kimball, speaks on how the company can deliver enterprise-sized database capabilities to midmarket organizations.

Busy Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes Six Actively Exploited Zero Days

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday features fixes for 90 flaws, with six of them actively exploited.

Synology Updates Its Hybrid Share Platform, Says It Offers 80 Percent Faster Uploads

Synology recently unveiled an updated version of its Hybrid Share platform, a storage and file system offering that allows users to sync multiple Synology network-attached storage devices across multiple sites and integrates with C2 Storage, the company's cloud-based storage service.

Tenable Adds New Capabilities To Its Vulnerability Management Solution

The security company has collected and analyzed 50 trillion data points on more than 240,000 vulnerabilities, it said.