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The Cyber Security Challenge in a Hybrid World
The Cyber Security Challenge in a Hybrid World

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The new normal of hybrid work comes with security concerns and operational complexity. These need to be mitigated with the right technology interventions

The global health crisis has made organizations realize the true value of staying resilient and adopting the right technologies to survive and disrupt amidst a turbulent business climate. While resiliency simply means the ability to withstand sudden and unexpected interruptions to business, business resiliency takes a slightly different form with IT operations at the center of it. With hybrid work becoming a non-negotiable component of the new normal, businesses are suddenly finding that their IT needs to be more centralized in planning, distributed and seamless deployment. What makes it even more challenging is the reality that the workforce has already moved from centralized to distributed. This opens the floodgates of data theft, and the inability of businesses to unlock business insights from the network. By skilfully managing the new digital and distributed business, and by using the right technology interventions, businesses can prepare themselves for the future by unlocking business-critical insights that can in turn be leveraged to understand customers better. But this is just half the job done. The biggest hurdle to such a sudden transformation is security. CIOs today have to ensure watertight security of endpoints, the network, the data, and the cloud. In a recent survey by Cisco, 82% of global businesses have already embarked on a hybrid cloud journey while 35% are worried about security and operational complexity. To make matters worse, almost half of the 3000 security leaders across 18 countries were diagnosed with cyber fatigue based on another global survey. To say the least, this is suicidal in today’s distributed world. All it takes is one tiny vulnerability to bring the business down.

Security – The biggest hindrance to hybrid work

In order to mitigate the security challenges in a hybrid business, what does the CIO need to think about? Firstly, technology is becoming excessively complex. In order to simplify business, the technology powering it in the backend is becoming complex. We are living in an age of hybrid clouds where we need to deliver the quality of service with the best employee experience by managing the multi protocols and multi-compliances across different vendors. While vendor consolidation is a humble beginning, the security mandate of a business can never be fulfilled unless it can prevent, respond, and in the worst case, patch a security vulnerability

The need for all-encompassing security

Secondly, remote working as a culture has been suddenly thrust down on businesses by the pandemic. The moment corporate data is exposed to a personal device, the need for an endpoint multiplies manifold and opens threats to organisations. CIOs need infrastructure-wide integrations of tools and processes to monitor these breaches. The sheer challenge of managing a multitude of security products, their patches, their vendors and licences and their own little dashboards, is what is making security leaders live on the edge. But in a world where customer satisfaction and client delight are at the core of every business, every minute part of the IT infrastructure needs to be watertight.

Future-proof solutions

In order for businesses to embark on a journey towards resilience, security needs to be simplified and must run on cruise mode. With the rapidly changing and evolving IT landscape, CIOs need consistent, yet flexible security, across the company’s IT topology, and most importantly, a unified, integrated way to monitor security and respond to threats in real-time. This essentially means a portfolio of solutions including a robust cybersecurity platform, that safeguards an IT network on an integrated, open platform, with unparalleled threat intelligence operating on a zero-trust methodology. The modern-day business should efficiently combine:

• Malware protection

• Cloud security

• Email security

• Endpoint security

In short, businesses today need an innovative mix of hardware and software solutions to cover the whole nine yards of enterprise security

Author: Shivlu Jain

Designation: Technical Solutions Architect


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