1 The Challenge

Digital transformation and cloud-delivered services have led to a tectonic shift in how applications and users are distributed. Protecting sensitive resources of the increasingly distributed enterprise with a large mobile workforce has become a challenge that siloed security tools are not able to address effectively. In addition to the growing number of potential threat vectors, the very scope of corporate cybersecurity has grown immensely in recent years. This has led to the challenges described below:

1.1 Increased Cyber Threat Level

The level of cyber threats from both state sponsored activities and cyber criminals is extremely high. At the same time, all industry sectors have become more dependent upon digital services and this has increased the potential business impact of these threats. These two factors have made cyber resilience an essential element aspect of digital transformation. In today’s distributed environment and with this level of cyber threats single point controls are insufficient and multiple levels of controls across the network, applications, storage and endpoints are needed and these must be coordinated to act in unison.