Security leaders say that conventional security measures are finding protection of highly distributed and hybrid environments to be complex
As enterprises distribute workloads and data across both on-premises data centers and cloud environments, IT departments are required to deploy, secure, and manage highly complex and hybrid networks. Contrary to other claims, the on-premises segment of network environments will not be eliminated any time soon.
Most of the organizations have shifted their workloads to cloud platforms, and the majority operates hybrid network. They continue to run mainframe hardware and physical server and maintain sensitive user information and data along with the data lakes on-premises
Organizations are able to keep data on-premises with the help of hybrid environments and maintain complete control over sensitive data and assets. They can also take total advantage of the agility and scalability that a cloud platform can provide. Security leaders say that as enterprises become more distributed and hybrid network topology, the security strategies should cover and protect all environments.
Protecting the anywhere enterprise
CISOs acknowledge that there does not exist a one size fits all compute model. And for highly dynamic hybrid topology, and highly distributed environments, enterprises need a security policy that can cover multi-cloud, home office, on-prem, smart edge, branch, and other relevant environments. To achieve such goals, enterprises need tools and solutions that can serve flexible, adaptable, and comprehensive policy enforcement and security across all environments referred to in the IT terms as “anywhere operations.”
Critical security functions
For proper protection and defense of hybrid environments, enterprises need to consider security measures that are capable of the following.
Broad security
CIOs say that security solutions should support a distributed security model where it is possible to deploy the same security solutions across any environment. Such solutions are more important in the current scenario where networks expand and diversify at a rapid pace. hybrid network Visibility is reduced, and IT personnel experience restricted ability in the detection of threats when isolated solutions are deployed in disparate areas of the network.
Mitigation of these attacks is a very complex exercise but it will prevent their spread from other parts of the network or preventing the hackers from quietly hacking and moving from one network part to another.
Security platforms need to be designed and selected in a manner that is capable of natively operating in multiple environments. They should be capable of deployment in the required form factor and provide comprehensive visibility across all deployment points.
Integrated security
Security leaders point out that the different security solutions implemented across the network must be able to see and collaborate as a single system. It helps in detecting threats and responding to them in a coordinated manner regardless of the environment. Such a solution needs a central management system that can distribute policy and validate configurations in any environment.
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They should collate and correlate threat intelligence gathered from the security fabric to detect threats and other malicious events. It is important that they provide solutions for such use cases that can cover the complete distributed network. For cloud platforms, such solutions should also work natively from within the platform.
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