Many of today’s security tools are built to secure cloud services. But we need to keep in mind that many organizations still require configurations that don’t have direct connection to the cloud. Organizations that have numerous branch locations — like convenience stores, school districts and banks — often use a software-defined wide area network, or SD-WAN.
Digital transformation has driven the rapid adoption of cloud-delivered services like SaaS/IaaS/PaaS in enterprises. This, in turn, has resulted in the migration of digital assets (aka data) from the confines of enterprise data centers to the cloud data centers that are not under the control of the enterprises. Additionally, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in remote work becoming the norm.
We’d like to think of our coworkers as trusted team members, collaborating on a shared mission to make positive contributions to the well being of the company. For the most part, this is true, but we must also recognize that our coworkers are individuals who may conduct themselves in ways that are detrimental to the company.
As a CIO it is very easy to get “new-acronym-deafness.” New innovations need new words and name-tags to identify them, and while analysts work hard to provide benchmarks and standardised definitions, it can be hard to keep up. At Netskope we know how confusing it can get, because sitting at the vanguard of emerging categories means we have had to do our fair share of explainers and re-labelling over recent years.
After the introduction of security service edge (SSE) with the February 2022 release of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for SSE, organizations may be wondering how they should choose an SSE vendor from the many profiled in the Gartner report. Interestingly enough during this year’s Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit in June 2022,