Securing Your It Organization For The New Normal

As enterprises transition to the new normal digital economy calls for a radical and fresh new approach to managing the security challenges IT organizations face today.

- Shrikanth G

Had Mark Twain been alive today in this age and time, he might probably revise this adage and may be say, “Put all your data in one place and protect it.” It’s increasingly a software-defined world and IT organizations are becoming elastic and agile as CIOs across the world with zeal kick-start their enterprise digital transformation agendas. But anything digital can be up for manipulation and that’s what concerns the CIOs and keeps them awake. With the dawn of the ‘On Demand’ age enterprise security is no longer about securing the perimeter, it’s all about managing the data access intelligently so that it does not fall prey to digital predators.

THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE 

Today security is the glue that binds the complex interplay of data and gives it the integrity. And its increasingly becoming difficult to manage the multi-pronged issues associated with security. Let’s look at some stats that will drive home the seriousness of security concerns organizations face today. For instance, if we go by leading threat landscape studies, Verizon said that Ransomware attacks are a key cybersecurity threat for global organizations, in its 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), it said that Ransomware is the most common type of malware, found in 39% of malware-related data breaches – double that of last year’s DBIR – and accounts for over 700 incidents. Verizon’s analysis also shows that attacks are now moving into business critical systems, which encrypt file servers or databases, inflicting more damage and commanding bigger ransom requests.”