Firewall services, cloud network protection tools and other IT defense staples are seeing a lot of changes in 2021. IT landscapes are growing more complex, as are the defense systems that protect them. Remote work is common, and more work is moving to the cloud. Companies of all sizes will be looking to streamline digital defense. What current tools or soon-to-be rolled out methods should they be keeping an eye on to do it?
Five major changes are relevant today. Take a look at hybrid work environments, the way cloud landscapes are handled between the enterprise users and the providers, automation, centralization and next-gen firewalls.
Changing to Hybrid Cloud Network Protection
Most employers now embrace a hybrid work model (some employees in the office, some working from home), a hybrid IT infrastructure (some on premises, some in the cloud) and a hybrid cloud model (some public cloud, some private).
And, this quick shift to remote work and the cloud in 2020 led to new openings for attacks. Part of this resulted from increased reliance on the cloud. Other openings came from an increase in the use of cloud-based services — often without an increase in budgets.
“Moving to cloud without a cloud strategy results in ad hoc adoption patterns, resulting in higher costs, disjointed management, security vulnerabilities and overall dissatisfaction with cloud outcomes,” says Raj Bala, a senior research director at Gartner.
Meanwhile, the shift to remote work increased the attack surface. Workspaces moved to insecure locations and unapproved insecure equipment and networks. Employees are also taking a much larger role in their own protection — ..
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