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Digital
business
requires digital
security,
expert says
As enterprises continue the process of digital transformation,
they are facing the challenge of staying on top of an increasing
number of cyberthreats. John Madisson, Senior Vice President
– Products and Solutions at Fortinet, discusses why businesses
need to ensure the new generation of security solutions can
leverage machine learning and AI for better visibility and greater
automation in fighting the volume and sophistication of attacks.
dapting to the
new digital
economy requires
organisations to
not just retool
their networks but,
in many cases,
core business processes as well. The
creation, exchange and analysis of
data – about customers, products and
their usage – enables organisations to
gain the insights they need to improve
operational efficiency, business agility
and the customer experience.
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The three pillars of digital business are
automation, agility and analytics. As the
speed of business accelerates, critical
processes need to occur at digital
speeds which means that human beings,
and human error, need to be removed
from many of the basic operations that
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support the organisation. Automation
allows critical personnel to be reassigned
to higher-order projects that rely on real-
time analysis of growing volumes of data
in order to enable agile business.
This same data must also be
protected as it moves across systems,
applications, devices and the multi-
cloud. It means that security needs to
be able to seamlessly extend to the
farthest reaches of the network and even
to those elements that may not even
be in the network yet. It must also be
found at every point of data interaction,
not just a t the perimeters or to secure
north-south traffic. This represents a
fundamental change in how security
must be approached. It’s no longer just
about the placement of security in the
different parts of the network. It goes far
beyond that.
John Madisson, Senior
Vice President – Products
and Solutions at Fortinet
This is why security is recognised
as one of the biggest obstacles to
digital transformation today and it is
highlighting the limitations of current
security implementations to IT leaders.
The security point-solutions they’ve
bolted onto their network over the
years are simply no longer sufficient to
address the new security challenges
posed by the adoption of digital
technologies and their attendant issues
of elasticity, scalability, speed and
volume. Most importantly, that traditional
approach doesn’t provide the proactive
security platform they need to support
the agility, automation and orchestration
they now require.
To meet these new demands, security
must undergo the same degree of
transformation that is impacting the
network and even the business itself.
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