Today’s complex cybersecurity landscape frequently exposes the weaknesses of disconnected security solutions. Breach after breach, we see attackers exploit vulnerabilities and vulnerabilities in legacy systems and devices, underscoring the fact that security infrastructure is tightly coupled with each other is not enough to stop modern, sophisticated threats.
The lack of visibility and fragmented monitoring on poorly integrated systems limits insight and compromises security across all environments. With cyberattacks exploding, endpoints attacked by ransomware and large amounts of malware hiding in encrypted traffic, centralizing and unifying the security of the network environment, Users and devices have never been more important.
So, what does this mean for CISOs and CSOs? How should security decision-makers deal with a constant stream of attacks specifically designed to target vulnerabilities in their security? One approach is to adopt a unified security platform. Unified security not only improves visibility and insights, but also enables knowledge sharing between different common security layers, improving security posture, reducing detection time and remediation as well as allowing the application of unreliable models.
So let’s dive a little deeper into the key elements of an effective unified platform.
- Clarity and control: A unified platform that will provide centralized security policy management, threat remediation, visibility, and reporting to streamline and simplify security administration. This provides IT and security teams with a single glass view to manage the end-to-end security of their entire security stack.
- Comprehensive security: A complete portfolio of must-have security products and services including networking, Wi-Fi, multi-factor authentication, and endpoint security can break the Chain of Destruction at each level. This layered security approach can more effectively protect and thwart detection and exploitation attempts on vulnerable systems, phishing, ransomware, intrusions, and software attacks. Advanced maliciousness across all users, environments, and devices.
- knowledge sharing: No matter how advanced the technology, deploying layers of security in isolation risks letting an attacker slip through a loophole. A unified approach should provide a fully integrated platform for adopting a trustless, identity-based security posture. It should include an XDR layer to detect, correlate, and prioritize advanced threats for remediation, and it should also include a distrust layer with flexible rules for configuring users and devices. are risk-based.
- Align operation: With direct API access, out-of-the-box integrations, and support for all payment and consumption models, an effective unified security platform successfully streamlines business operations for resource-constrained IT teams, ultimately delivering stronger security, easier deployment, and better interoperability in IT environments.
- automation: Finally, the security and business automation built into these layers further simplifies every aspect of security usage, delivery, and management. A solution that can operate near-autonomously provides the ultimate in resilience to cyberattacks while minimizing wasted IT time, speeding up processes, killing more threats, and Empower IT teams to do more in less time.
In the many recent high-profile cyberattacks, victims (regardless of size) possess a range of security solutions that fail due to vulnerabilities caused by their complex environments. A unified approach that includes each of the key elements above defeats complexity by bringing together often disconnected layers of security to improve efficiency and cover the entire attack surface. With a unified approach, decision makers can close the gap that makes them more vulnerable and dramatically increase their organization’s ability to fend off attackers.
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