SECURITY IS A FABRIC, NOT A BOLTED-ON PIECE

Enterprise end-user security spends have been projected to rise 9.5 per cent in 2021. But there’s more behind these numbers recently unravelled by Gartner. Prateek Bhajanka, senior principal research analyst at Gartner explains why humans would always stay integral even in the third wave of AI security tools, and why now traditional notions of data-centre security have gone completely out of vogue. Let’s understand some finer chinks and knots in this chain called security. Or shall we say, the fabric called security?

- Pratima H

The year that had gone by changed a lot of rules and games in the business world. What shift did it bring it for IT security?

Enterprises may have been cloud-averse or cloud uncomfortable to some extent before. Security was galvanised around the data centre. But now it has moved beyond the physical realm of servers. Now it has to come into action in the coffee-café where an employee opens the laptop for a meeting. The business space has become hybrid and remote and that is creating big changes for security architecture and approaches.

Has this accentuated the paradox between friction and safety? Specially now when people really need their apps or screens to be up and running in nanoseconds?