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Starting off a new year often comes with a re-energized sense of taking stock of big changes you want to make and how you want to accomplish them. And, as we come off of “prediction season”, there’s also a sense of the hot topics and challenges that are already on the horizon for the security community. While seemingly everybody makes security predictions, here’s how you can make those predictions a reality with resolutions for the coming year, featuring helpful commentary from some of our experts here at Netskope:
Create unified security, infrastructure, and operations teams to better ensure successful digital transformation
It is becoming increasingly clear that to succeed in today’s hybrid workforce, organizations must find a way to balance and unify the needs of security and networking teams. As Jason Clark, Chief Security and Strategy Officer, noted in a blog from 2022, “Networking teams don’t want to sacrifice network performance and user experience, while security teams don’t want to sacrifice visibility and protection.” Jason then digs into how a modern architecture, one that uses a converged secure access service edge architecture, “one that provides a single point of inspection for traffic that enables a sustainable, fast, secure, and cost-effective hybrid work experience,” is key to unifying the needs of both networking and security teams. as they tackle digital transformation in the year to come.
Establish more effective technologies and processes to reduce the technical and economic burden of staying secure
Staying secure as an organization requires constant upkeep and re-evaluation, especially with uncertain economic conditions on the horizon. In a recent two-part series of articles for Forbes, Field CTO Steve Riley broke down key strategies for evaluating the effectiveness of processes and