UPDATED 18:49 EDT / MAY 17 2016

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Is automation the solution to the cybersecurity catch-up game? | #Know16

Poor, overworked cybersecurity staff. All of Silicon Valley works busily year round to advance IT, develop new software and products, and then the security people are expected to come in and threat-proof everything with the wave of a wand. The situation is so frantic that Todd Pedersen, director of Cybersecurity Sales at Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC), said, “There’s a negative unemployment rate in cybersecurity.”

With more jobs than bodies to fill them, he said companies better find ways to help their security teams work  smarter. To that end, he said that prioritizing threats is the first step. He told Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the ServiceNow Knowledge16 event that companies need to identify what threats are standard, cease redundant processes and instead automate responses to the predictable threats.

“If I can take 1,000 events and parse out 30 percent of them, that’s 30 percent more time for your cybersecurity staff to be focused on finding more of those strategic types of attacks that you really need to be worried about,” Pedersen explained.

Magic shrinking development time

Pedersen spoke about his company’s work with Fruition Partners: a CSC Company, a service management partner on improving security automation. Marc Talluto, CEO of Fruition Partners, told theCUBE hosts that all sorts of businesses are driving automation of processes and faster development of applications, and this is where “ServiceNow is really going to punch through.”

Talluto said that companies are looking at what Fruition and ServiceNow can do and realizing, “I can develop these same applications in a third of the time. Customers are sitting there, and rather than thinking about changes and coming back in a month, we just make the changes while we’re sitting there.”

The shift to faster, more agile, more nimble development has changed the industry, he said. “The days of the five- or 1o-year projects are over,” Talluto concluded.

Watch the full video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of ServiceNow Knowledge16.

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