CIO magazine for the North America region . This month ’ s cover features Chris Burch , Chief Information Security Officer at EagleView .

EagleView , an aerial imaging company based in Washington , has solved a number of its key security challenges by integrating Infoblox technology into the organization .

With the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic , EagleView shifted its approximately 1,000 employees to a remote work model , which it wanted to proactively secure with visibility and remediation tools extending to the network ’ s farthest edges .

“ Infoblox was a great help in making it easy for us to proactively get the visibility and security remediation we needed across our expanded remote environment ,” said Burch . “ We appreciated the speedy and easy deployment as well as the cost efficiency .” You can find out more details about the project by turning to p56 . support processing , and decision support applications closer to where the data is generated .

“ Furthermore , these data centers need to be designed to accommodate huge amounts of unstructured data at high speed and will need to be built on cloud-native technologies such as containers and to support a much wider variety of application needs .” There ’ s much more to discover about this story on p36 .

This month ’ s Trending looks at how a study from Zscaler reveals a 700 % increase in IoT-specific malware .

Deepen Desai , CISO of Zscaler , told us : “ The volume and variety of IoT devices connected to corporate networks is vast and includes everything from musical lamps to IP cameras . Our team saw 76 % of these devices still communicating on unencrypted plain text channels , meaning that a majority of IoT transactions pose great risk to the business .” For more details , turn to p23 .

Elsewhere , in this month ’ s Talking Biz James Petter , International VP , Pure Storage , discusses the importance of Edge Computing and the positive impact it ’ s having on technology development .

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“ Edge Computing will cause a serious rethink about how we architect our data centers ,” he says . “ Data centers will need to be physically closer to users and

Mark Bowen Editor

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