While you might have mastered enabling a remote-first workplace thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping the systems, data and applications within your network safe presents another set of challenges.
The ever-evolving threat landscape is seeing cybercriminals and scammers get savvier and more audacious by the minute, in turn, compelling organizations to implement proactive and error-proof network security strategies.
We recently floored our 2024 editorial summit Strategies for a Resilient Network, aimed at helping IT professionals design and manage an agile and secure network infrastructure.
Our speakers provided insights to help guide viewers toward achieving optimal network resiliency.
Kevin Tolly, founder of The Tolly Group, presented how hacker use of AI will impact ransomware attacks.
As traditional defense strategies can fall short in responding to ransomware attacks today, Tolly recommends that organizations explore collaborative architecture.
This architecture involves effort between network security elements and data storage subsystems to detect, block, and mitigate ransomware attacks in real time.
Amritha Arun Babu, a technical product management leader, who has worked for companies like Amazon and Wayfair, tailored her session to product managers.
Arun Babu focused on how PM leaders can empower stakeholders while collaborating cross-organizationally to deliver priority products that meet security needs.
She pointed out the differences between communicating with executives and developers, explaining that executives prefer high-level information to understand business value while developers look for technical details.
PMs should develop skills in communicating to both audiences effectively to avoid roadblocks during product development.
Review more tips from Arun Babu in the full presentation here.
Krishendu De, head of information security at CESC Limited, delved into how organizations can enhance network performance with SASE. De provided an overview of the benefits of SASE, the problems the technology aims to address, SASE use cases and key factors to consider when selecting a provider.
Go to the session for a complete look at SASE. Independent resilience consultant and writer Paul Kirvan guides viewers through integrating sustainability and green technology into a network infrastructure.
In this presentation, Kirvan also addresses environmental impact of network infrastructure, certifications useful when building a resilient network environment and encourages organizations to align network resilience efforts with their broader sustainability goals and initiatives.
Check out the full session for guidance on going green.
The theme of this presentation was that cloud security is everyone's responsibility and he reinforced this message by highlighting these seven cloud misconfiguration remediation strategies: implementing cloud governance, upskilling employees, leveraging cloud security posture management, developing policies and templates, automating security and configuration checks, monitoring, and auditing changes, and implementing technical security controls.
Access the full presentation here for additional insights and to view CSPM product demos.
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This Cyber News was published on www.techtarget.com. Publication date: Thu, 09 May 2024 14:43:06 +0000