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Philippe Courtot , Chairman and CEO at Qualys , has provided a clear call to action on how to successfully overcome today ’ s security challenges , at the QSC EMEA 2021 12-Day Virtual event .
With enterprise IT environments getting exponentially more complex with the increasing adoption of cloud computing , he explained that the key to attaining seamless security and compliance is to shift to open cloud platforms that interoperate with each other .
With this new model allowing organisations to build security natively into their IT infrastructure and to take a risk-based approach anchored by an always updated global IT asset inventory , he argued that this is the only way to have the scale , speed , accuracy , visibility and context needed to protect today ’ s hybrid and dynamic IT infrastructures .
In a world where connected devices are exploding , visibility across all devices ( known and unknown ) and environments is essential .
“ Creating an accurate inventory or ‘ cartography of your entire hybrid environment ’ which is always up-to-date and seamlessly integrated into your security stack , is the foundation for a comprehensive security programme ,” said Courtot .
Rethinking security
With drastic changes that the migration to the cloud is bringing to security , it ’ s important to consider what organisations should do to cope with these changes .
“ It ’ s very clear that today we must rethink security and that security is at a crossroad . We all know that we have lost the little visibility that we had , especially today in that world where not only do we have to deal with our current
The key to attaining seamless security and compliance is to shift to open cloud platforms that interoperate with each other .
competing infrastructure or network centric computing , we need to think about the cloud and how we can really create a seamless security or build security across these environments ,” said Courtot .
The problem with traditional solutions
As IT teams embrace cloud services , mobility , containers , DevOps and other innovations , the job of security teams gets harder . This is especially true if they have a heterogeneous stack of tools that are difficult and costly to deploy , integrate and manage .
With such a siloed and fragmented toolset , visibility into the IT environment narrows , tasks can ’ t be automated , false positives abound and security teams struggle to detect and respond quickly to threats .
Courtot says the traditional best of breed point solutions don ’ t cut it anymore . The main reason for this , he says , is because they are siloed solutions .
Philippe Courtot , Chairman and CEO at Qualys
“ They don ’ t speak with each other and it ’ s very difficult ,” he said . “ None of them www . intelligentciso . com
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