The cybersecurity industry needs to reinvent itself

The cybersecurity industry needs to reinvent itself



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Organizations are spending more money on cybersecurity and feeling less secure. Last year, 93% of cybersecurity professionals said they were moderately or extremely concerned about cloud security.


And that was before the COVID-19 pandemic made the threat landscape even more precarious, with a sudden and dramatic increase in remote work that expanded the attack surface.


If we don’t reinvent cybersecurity, things will get worse before they get better.


According to IDC, more than 50% of global GDP is expected to come from digitally transformed enterprises in the next three years. Multicloud environments continue to proliferate and the Internet of Things (IoT) could reach 41.6 billion IoT devices by 2025.


These trends will accelerate as COVID-19 necessitates a workforce that is more mobile and distributed than ever. This means the need for a new cybersecurity approach must also accelerate.


No business can afford to operate as it did 10 or even five years ago. Organizations must be able to leverage technological innovation — particularly machine learning (ML) — to eas ..

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