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In its Global Risks Report 2021, the World Economic Forum listed five top cybersecurity challenges. These are the increased complexity of cyber threats, fragmented and complex regulations, dependence on other parties, lack of cybersecurity expertise, and the difficulty in tracking cybercriminals.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated technological adoption, yet exposed cyber vulnerabilities and unpreparedness, while at the same time exacerbated the tech inequalities within and between societies,” the report wrote.
Addressing evolving cyber risks requires a holistic approach that necessitates the involvement of policymakers and consumers. However, at the center of it all are the security providers. They are the ones virtually everyone expects to have the solution to emerging cyber woes.
How are cybersecurity experts at present responding to the top challenges in securing networks or IT systems? Here’s a rundown of the solutions and innovations they offer.
Sophisticated solutions for more complex challenges
As organizations expand globally and branch out into different business segments or varying types of operations, they inevitably have to deal with highly complex systems. Digitalization allows them to make things efficient, but it does not eliminate the problem of complexity. This complexity often results in broader exposures to cyber risks. Organizations also turn to cloud computing to address the drawbacks of on-prem setups, but the cloud environment likewise poses its own set of new challenges.
Migrating to the cloud and running a complex IT infrastructure, in particular, need more than basic cyber defense systems. Relying on standard security controls without having a coherent mechanism or platform for monitoring threats and responding to attacks is totally unwise in view of the more aggressive attacks hounding organizations at present. For this, security providers offer enhanced cloud data security.
Cloud-centric protection spans a variety of tactics, approaches, and tools that address concerns specific to the cloud and to the security gaps created as organizations switch to a new infrastructure. This includes database-as-a-service security, automated threat management, web application firewalls, runtime protection, advanced bot defense, as well as serverless and client-side protection.
Security providers design more sophisticated security systems that are anchored on maximum visibility, optimum performance, and broader platform support. They understand that a plain detection/discovery and remediation approach does not cut it. As such, they employ more sophisticated and flexible systems that involve several facets including data discovery, classification, protection policy and alerts, compliance, and auditing…
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