Even as companies invest heavily in digital transformations and become more data-driven, there’s a dramatic shortage of data scientists. According to QuantHub, there was a data scientist shortage of 250,000 people in 2020. In a report released earlier this month by tech career hub Dice, data scientist was one of the top five fastest-growing job roles this year, while LinkedIn’s 2021 jobs report found hiring for  data scientist jobs grew nearly 46% since 2019. Augmented analytics bridges the gap Augmented analytics tools offer…

SASE vendor Cato Networks is adding fine-grained cloud access security broker (CASB) controls to its platforms. When employees working from home or branch locations log into SaaS services such as Office 365 or Dropbox or Salesforce, a CASB gateway can track the applications employees access, where they log in from, and sometimes even what they do when using those applications. Previously, Cato only offered limited CASB controls, enabling companies to allow or prohibit the use of particular SaaS tools, says Dave Greenfield, Cato’s director of technology evangelism. Now, individual behaviors can be controlled. For example, users might be allowed to…