 | Stephen Ridley, Founder and CTO, Senrio Published via distil Networks |
What is one resolution every IT security executive should make for the coming year?
“DATA, DATA, DATA. Effective Information Security departments these days are less about cool tech for IR, detection, policy, and orchestration. We have a wealth of those for traditional endpoints/networks. What we now see is that Information Security (like the rest of technology) is that we need to be better about storing and utilizing data (and in an actionable time-frame). The largest transportation networks own no cars. The largest search engines and social media sites generate no content. It's all about data management. Security is now no different. Solutions that don't speak to how data is stored, searched, parsed, and effectively plugged into your existing architecture need to be ignored. Security products need to provide operational value now. We've evolved past the ‘how’ and now need to focus on the ‘why.’ Security solutions have the burden of bringing more to the enterprise than just security.
What’s the biggest cybersecurity threat facing companies in 2017?
“VISIBILITY, VISIBILITY, VISIBILITY. Networks have grown more diverse and now include more than just servers and endpoints that an agent can be installed into for policy, management, and enforcement. Gartner predicts that by 2020, over 15% of all network intrusions will leverage embedded devices. These devices are (from a CISO's perspective) impossible to ‘get into.’ So how do you make sure these devices aren't compromising your network security posture? Look for solutions that speak to this. This burgeoning blind-spot is symptomatic of the CURRENT ‘visibility’ problem. How can you cheaply and efficiently get visibility into the behavior of assets on your network without incurring the cost of archiving terabytes worth of pcaps? Visibility is king. And at the heart of the visibility problem is the DATA problem. The deluge of alerts. The overloaded SIEM. The ‘analysis paralysis’ of your Operations/Security team. Look clever solutions to the data/visibility problem that are tractable and accessible.”
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“DATA, DATA, DATA. Effective Information Security departments these days are less about cool tech for IR, detection, policy, and orchestration. We have a wealth of those for traditional endpoints/networks. What we now see is that Information Security (like the rest of technology) is that we need to be better about storing and utilizing data (and in an actionable time-frame). The largest transportation networks own no cars. The largest search engines and social media sites generate no content. It's all about data management. Security is now no different. Solutions that don't speak to how data is stored, searched, parsed, and effectively plugged into your existing architecture need to be ignored. Security products need to provide operational value now. We've evolved past the ‘how’ and now need to focus on the ‘why.’ Security solutions have the burden of bringing more to the enterprise than just security.
What’s the biggest cybersecurity threat facing companies in 2017?
“VISIBILITY, VISIBILITY, VISIBILITY. Networks have grown more diverse and now include more than just servers and endpoints that an agent can be installed into for policy, management, and enforcement. Gartner predicts that by 2020, over 15% of all network intrusions will leverage embedded devices. These devices are (from a CISO's perspective) impossible to ‘get into.’ So how do you make sure these devices aren't compromising your network security posture? Look for solutions that speak to this. This burgeoning blind-spot is symptomatic of the CURRENT ‘visibility’ problem. How can you cheaply and efficiently get visibility into the behavior of assets on your network without incurring the cost of archiving terabytes worth of pcaps? Visibility is king. And at the heart of the visibility problem is the DATA problem. The deluge of alerts. The overloaded SIEM. The ‘analysis paralysis’ of your Operations/Security team. Look clever solutions to the data/visibility problem that are tractable and accessible.”
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