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Innovation
without
security misses
the mark
As more businesses and organisations progress their
digitalisation strategies, it’s crucial that security is at
the core of every decision. Amrit Williams, VP Products,
Skybox Security, tells us why security should be built into
innovation to ensure organisations can effectively reap the
benefits of Digital Transformation.
I
nnovation is
the lifeblood of
business today.
Organisations
need to constantly
innovate to enter
new markets and
provide new services – and do it better,
and faster than their competition. ignoring advice and shirking policy. In
the case of cloud migrations, operations
teams often didn’t involve the security
group at all, then decided a specialised
security group was needed and finally
arrived at the conclusion that cloud
was a part of the infrastructure all along
and the traditional security team should
oversee these networks as well.
Digital Transformation, where technology
is applied in creative ways to traditional
problems, has aided the speed, agility
and cost-effectiveness of innovation
projects. However, it has more often than
not pushed security to the sidelines. This lack of strategy to cloud migrations
proved short-sighted and costly. It also
could have opened organisations up to
new cyber-risks, damaging attacks and
regulatory violations.
Historically, the dichotomy between
security and innovation has meant that
if you want to move fast, you could get
hurt; if you want to be secure, you’ll
hardly move at all. As a result, innovation
has regularly bypassed security teams,
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But a lesson should be learned from
these mistakes.
Innovation will happen regardless of
security’s involvement, but security is
a critical element to the success of the
initiative. Security should play an active
Amrit Williams,
VP Products,
Skybox Security
role in innovation strategy and execution,
advising on how best to achieve goals
while minimising risk.
An era of tectonic change
Despite the newness of dynamic
computing technology, in 2018, 77%
of enterprises reported having at least
one application or some portion of their
enterprise computing infrastructure
in the cloud. This means the network
infrastructures on which enterprises are
built have changed dramatically in a
short period of time.
In addition to cloud adoption, other
changes have contributed a network
complexity unimaginable even just
a decade ago. A global economy
has made internationally dispersed,
mobile workforces and outsourcing
commonplace, creating countless
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