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to current threats, which leaves them
unable to plan and anticipate the attacks
to come in the near future.
Why do CISOs need to reassess
how they are approaching the
security of their networks?
The job scope of the CISO is becoming
multi-dimensional; she or he needs
to be a business enabler, an agent of
change and a human leader. In addition,
the CISO needs to talk the language
of the business. And since managing a
business is primarily managing risk, the
CISO needs to factor traditional network
and security indicators into the risk
curve of his company.
The Fortinet Security
Fabric delivers a
unified approach that
is broad, integrated
and automated.
Instead of being Mr No: ‘We cannot
have this collaborative application,
we can’t have people bringing in their
own devices, we need to forbid social
networks’, the CISO of 2020 and
beyond would say: ‘These are the three
possible scenarios regarding the use of
social media inside our company, each
of which is associated to a risk level.
The best ratio/performance/risk is the
second one that reduces the probability
of GDPR infringement by 80% while
enabling each employee to connect to
LinkedIn, Twitter and Office 365’.
This new approach will make the CISO
part of the C-level suite, turning his
cybersecurity knowledge into strategic
recommendations based on business risk.
What are the key elements
of Fortinet’s network
security solutions?
DX is an opportunity for nearly every
organisation to achieve more flexibility
and cost efficiency for itself and
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better experiences for its customers.
At the same time, DX increases the
digital attack surface, gives hackers
innovative ways to generate increasingly
sophisticated attacks and contributes to
a growing complexity of regulations and
security solutions.
This will not stop emerging leaders
– the ones who build a foundation
for managing risk that enables their
organisations to move faster than
competitors in leveraging DX.
The Fortinet Security Fabric is that
foundation. It unifies security solutions
behind a single pane of glass, makes
the growing digital attack surface
visible, integrates AI-driven breach
prevention and automates operations,
orchestration and response. In
summary, it enables organisations
to create new value with DX without
compromising security for business
agility, performance and simplicity.
How do Fortinet’s
solutions enable visibility
and reduce complexity?
The influx and speed of DX projects
makes it harder for organisations to
protect against advanced threats. Add
new and evolving regulations and the
adoption of security standards, along
with the fact that threats are faster
and more advanced than ever, and
the complexity of security
expands exponentially.
Automated workflows and orchestration
– from detection, to protection, to
response – becomes a requirement
for any enterprise seeking to succeed
in this complex world of security
management. This is where the Security
Fabric delivers tangible dividends.
Automation of network operations helps
DevOps teams to focus on time to
market, improves operational efficiencies
through zero-touch provisioning and
generates real-time insights around
branch network performance around
issues such as spikes, scaling and
priority routing of traffic. Automation
of security operations reduces risk
through proactive threat detection, threat
correlation, intelligence-sharing alerts
and threat research and analysis.
Integration of IT service management
(ITSM) tools unlocks automation of event
analysis and responses. This reduces
response times from days to minutes or
even seconds.
The Security Fabric also uses
automation to transform compliance
audits, tracking and ongoing reporting
across industry regulations and
security standards. The latter includes
dashboards for the CISO, CIO, CEO
and even the board of directors. This
saves security teams myriad hours in
manual log aggregation and correlation,
a task that is particularly onerous with
a disaggregated security architecture
lacking transparent visibility and
centralised controls
Why do organisations require a
broad, integrated solution?
The volume and velocity of malicious
attacks, coupled with their increasing
sophistication, makes it difficult for
cybersecurity defences to keep
pace. Blocking known threats is not
enough today. Artificial Intelligence
(AI) and Machine Learning (ML) offer
organisations the means to stay ahead
of cybercriminals. Unfortunately, only
slightly more than one-third of security
vendors use AI and ML capabilities in
their solutions.
Fortinet recognised the importance of
doing so years ago in its development
of FortiGuard AI. Specifically, FortiGuard
The job scope of the
CISO is becoming
multi-dimensional;
she or he needs to be
a business enabler,
an agent of change
and a human leader.
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