For example, if economic headwinds shift due to political tensions, it might be a good time to amplify your ransomware defenses. If you’re undergoing a period of change management, strengthening zero trust could help. Each threat inspires its own defensive solution.
At the CDW SummIT, experts made it clear that patching one security vulnerability at a time is not sufficient. Instead, security should include a core component of IT strategy. This helps lay the groundwork for advanced anomaly detection and staff security trainings.
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Address Each Security Risk Systematically
Often, if one security vulnerability is left undetected, it can spread and pose significant risks. That’s why experts at the SummIT encouraged executives to make considerate, strategic moves with their staff, data, cloud and investments. Even something like moving data to the cloud requires IT leaders to employ skill and agility in their decision-making, said Bob West, chief security officer for Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks.
To develop a systematic approach, IT leaders must consider how a move to the cloud will impact the rest of their business. This means thinking beyond the customer cloud journey about how this decision will impact the rest of the organization’s security.