Ensuring Consistent Defense-in-depth Across On-premises and Cloud-native Workloads
As organizations increase their use of public cloud, they continue to reap the benefits of business agility, flexibility, and scalability. Yet, consistently maintaining an organization's security posture across its on-premises and public cloud environments can be difficult and cumbersome. This is especially challenging as traffic moves across core and edge networks and the public cloud.
As Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research has uncovered, respondents have major concerns with securing cloud-native applications running in hybrid clouds and multi-cloud environments, and many are already experiencing security breaches as a result. Read this Business Justification Brief to discover how to close cybersecurity gaps for hybrid and cloud-native applications
Closing the Cloud Security Readiness Gap:
Gaining Consistency Across Disparate Environments
The composition of cloud-native applications is a mix of APIs, containers, VMs, and serverless functions continuously integrated and delivered. Securing these applications, the underlying infrastructure, and the automation platforms that orchestrate their deployment, necessitates revisiting threat models, gaining organizational alignment, and leveraging purposeful controls. Additionally, as security and DevOps continue to converge, cloud security controls are being consolidated. Project teams are evolving from a siloed approach to a unified strategy to securing cloud-native applications and platforms.
In order to gain insight into these trends, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) surveyed 383 IT and cybersecurity professionals at organizations in North America (US and Canada) personally responsible for evaluating or purchasing cloud security technology products and services.
How to Deliver Integrated and Consistent Network, Application, and Cloud Security on Google Cloud
An increasing number of organizations are adopting a cloud-first policy, expedited via the use of cloud-native applications and services. However, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research has found that 88% of respondents believe that their cybersecurity programs need to evolve to secure their cloud-native applications and use of public cloud infrastructure. When it comes to the biggest cloud-native application security challenges, respondents cited maintaining security consistently across their data centers and public cloud environments (47%), increasing cost and complexity using multiple cybersecurity controls (40%), lacking understanding of the threat model for cloud-native applications and infrastructure (31%), and lacking visibility into public cloud infrastructure (30%).
This ESG Technical White Paper documents the evaluation of Fortinet on Google Cloud. ESG examined how Fortinet delivers integrated and consistent network, application, and cloud security for workloads deployed on Google Cloud.
Ensuring Consistent Defense-in-depth Across On-premises and Cloud-native Workloads
As organizations increase their use of public cloud, they continue to reap the benefits of business agility, flexibility, and scalability. Yet, consistently maintaining an organization's security posture across its on-premises and public cloud environments can be difficult and cumbersome. This is especially challenging as traffic moves across core and edge networks and the public cloud.
As Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research has uncovered, respondents have major concerns with securing cloud-native applications running in hybrid clouds and multi-cloud environments, and many are already experiencing security breaches as a result. Read this Business Justification Brief to discover how to close cybersecurity gaps for hybrid and cloud-native applications
Your MDM Doesn’t Want You to Read This (But We Do!)
If you’ve ever worked with an MDM (Mobile Device Management) to build and manage an Android device fleet, you know how one-sided that relationship becomes once your hardware is in the field. You also know that’s because MDMs are built on a model that chiefly rewards shipping devices, not supporting them. It’s hard to blame them, either — in a world where getting devices to the edge has become a critical concern across dozens of industries, hardware talks. But if you’re scaling a mission critical Android device fleet, you’re already asking the kind of hard questions your MDM probably isn’t very eager to answer.
MDM is Dead. It’s Time to Shift to Android DevOps
Alright, so maybe not completely dead, but Mobile Device Management (MDM) - while necessary - cannot (alone) meet the needs of innovative, agile businesses, especially when customer experience and value are on the line.
With MDM, you can’t control the intake of changes to a fleet - risking widespread downtime - or debug your applications in real-time to prevent poor user experience. Enter Android DevOps where quality and speed are at the heart of dedicated device management.
According to Sam Guckenheimer of Microsoft Azure, “For a DevOps team...everything they do is about making a customer’ experience better.” Android DevOps enables businesses to focus on their business - not the platform - so they can deliver the ultimate customer experience.
Continue reading to learn more about how making the shift to Android DevOps can help you get back to what matters most: delighting your customers.
For more information about the advantages of Android DevOps reach out to Esper.
How Strong is Your MDM Security?
6 Layer MDM Cybersecurity Self-Assessment
MDM security in 2020 must be dynamic. You need the flexibility to deploy and manage single-purpose Android devices according to use cases. MDM should offer features to completely wipe and re-provision devices at any given point during the device lifecycle. Most importantly, MDM security should allow real-time or automated response based on insights into devices, apps, and user behaviors.
According to the 2020 Verizon Mobile Security Index (MSI), 66% of organizations admit a mobile cybersecurity issue has spiraled into a “significant organizational calamity” in the past, Your chances of experiencing a mobile cybersecurity incident in the next two years are 28%.
Your mobile security risks vary depending on device type, industry, and most importantly, use case. Pay attention to this 42-point checklist to determine if your MDM security is at risk.
Use the Data Security Governance Framework to Balance Business Needs and Risks
Considered a data security gold standard, Gartner's Data Security Governance Framework recommends that data governance, compliance, and security be effectively unified.
Read this report to dive into best practices and steps you can take to help your organization achieve a comprehensive data security posture.
The Total Economic Impact™ Of IBM Security Guardium Oct 2020
IBM commissioned Forrester Research consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) that organizations may realize by deploying IBM Security Guardium. The study uncovered that organizations achieve cost and risk reductions while increasing productivity and tactical efficiencies from implementing IBM Security Guardium. Read the study to learn more.
Read the Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to learn how to:
- Achieve cost and risk reductions
- Increase productivity and tactical efficiencies
- Evaluate the potential return on investment
The Future Of Data Security And Privacy: Growth And Competitive Differentiation
Are you prepared to defend against new security and privacy threats? From data breaches to privacy violations, to unwarranted workplace surveillance, the implications of weak data security and privacy policies are escalating.
Read Forrester's latest review to understand the challenges and get advice on how to prepare for what’s ahead.
Smarter data security with IBM Security Guardium
Businesses are embracing hybrid multicloud-based deployment models in order to gain agility and drive their organizations forward. But such a deployment can increase the attack surface, potentially resulting in a host of new data security and compliance challenges.
Learn how IBM Security Guardium—with broad visibility and monitoring, actionable insights and remediation controls—can help you take a smarter, integrated approach to safeguarding critical data across hybrid, multicloud environments.
The Future Of Data Security And Privacy: Growth And Competitive Differentiation
Are you prepared to defend against new security and privacy threats? From data breaches to privacy violations, to unwarranted workplace surveillance, the implications of weak data security and privacy policies are escalating.
Read Forrester's latest review to understand the challenges and get advice on how to prepare for what’s ahead.
Smarter data security with IBM Security Guardium
Businesses are embracing hybrid multicloud-based deployment models in order to gain agility and drive their organizations forward. But such a deployment can increase the attack surface, potentially resulting in a host of new data security and compliance challenges.
Learn how IBM Security Guardium—with broad visibility and monitoring, actionable insights and remediation controls—can help you take a smarter, integrated approach to safeguarding critical data across hybrid, multicloud environments.
Overcoming data security challenges in a hybrid multicloud world
Organizations are rapidly moving to the cloud, leveraging infrastructure as a service (IaaS), software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform as-a-service (PaaS), and Database as-a-service as new ways to optimize their business, even though these environments present new risks to sensitive data.
Data security solutions must be able to operate across multiple environments (physical, cloud and hybrid).
Read this ebook to learn more about how to secure sensitive data across a variety of environments, and how the IBM Data Security portfolio can help.
Gartner: Beyond GDPR: Five Technologies to Borrow From Security to Operationalize Privacy
Having to operationalize privacy caught many organizations unprepared. Thus, Gartner experienced a tremendous spike in client inquiry regarding GDPR preparations, with a 400% increase over the previous year.
In preparing for various privacy regulations, security and risk management leaders should review this report to review a set of balanced controls for privacy and security in the implementation of five key technologies.
