New remote business reality pushes security teams to retool to protect expanding attack surface.
Remote workforce, hybrid-cloud and Zero-Trust trends are pushing security teams to focus on hardware-assisted security strategies to better secure an evolving attack surface changed significantly by COVID.
To address new challenges, hardware-assisted security is viewed as an effective and innovative way to gain IT ecosystem visibility, manage digital assets and reduce security team and compute costs. The findings are from a recent Ponemon Institute survey, sponsored by Intel.
“With very little advance warning, organizations were forced to make changes to their cybersecurity practices because of a remote workforce,” according to the study. Fifty-three percent of respondents said COVID-related shifts in their IT stack forced them to “refresh” their security strategy.
Central to that shift has been the search for innovative new approaches to managing infrastructure and endpoint sprawl. Recent vulnerabilities, Log4J, ProxyShell and ZeroLogon, each underscore this new dynamic. In each zero-day instance, security teams had to scramble to see what in their ecosystem might be vulnerable and needed to be patched first.
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