As data center infrastructure evolves, more enterprises, hyperscalers, and service providers are embracing hybrid and hyperscale architectures to satisfy unprecedented demands for user experience, while delivering unparalleled performance, scale, and capacity.
But this trend also creates security-related needs that can negatively, even severely, affect experience, performance, and scale if not properly addressed, and can lead to attacks, disruptions, and long-term damage to brand and reputation.
Organizations should evaluate providers that can offer right-fit security designed for hybrid and hyperscale data centers. That starts with understanding the core challenges hybrid and hyperscale trends create for teams.
- Limited visibility
- Shielding vulnerable applications
- Hyperscale performance
- Overall management complexity
Endpoints continue to be one of the favorite targets for cyberattacks. A successfully compromised laptop, smartphone, or Internet-of-Things (IoT) device can provide a foothold for threats to move laterally, infect other endpoints within the organization, and moreover enable attackers to gain access to other critical assets. In addition to weakened security, intrusions also divert staff time away from activities that enhance network performance and streamline operations.
To address these challenges, IT infrastructure leaders need integrated n ...
Network engineering and operations leaders are looking to software-defined wide- area networks (SD-WAN) to support the influx of traffic and applications driven by digital transformation (DX). These applications improve staff productivity while creating new business opportunities, but they also reshape corporate networking and security needs.
In response, many organizations are beginning to rethink their traditional WAN architecture. SD WAN has emerged as a replacement, but many SD-WAN implementations also present serious challenges—from ina ...
Much has been made in the cybersecurity industry of the benefits of SASE, but what are the pragmatic steps businesses must take to embed SASE into their strategy? This report by journalists who spoke to representatives from a selection of global organisations offers practical steps for businesses looking to overhaul their cybersecurity and embed a zero trust approach.
Take a look at the data-rich infographics and find out more about:
How to make SASE a board-level priority
Using the security stack to differentiate your culture
Solving the ...
Behavioral analytics tops the list of cybersecurity best practices
The majority of enterprise companies have hundreds of apps deployed in the cloud, and that trend is expected to continue, according to a new survey by IDG. That said, 52% of companies find that securing those apps continues to be challenging.
But that doesn’t mean that the remaining 48% are fully confident in their cloud app security or are fully aware of all of the facets of cloud security they should be considering. Enterprise companies have deployed hundreds of applic ...
Determining which edge and cloud security vendor is the right fit for your organization can be challenging. Read this guide for evaluating the leading enterprise solutions so you can choose with confidence.
Download to see 13 evaluation criteria, including:
Support and services
Ease of implementation
Customization/flexibility
How to best use analyst perspectives ...
As enterprise IT readily embraces public cloud technologies, on-premises and private cloud usage...