Businesses move beyond VPN to secure hybrid settings
September 7, 2021
For a while now, VPNs have been a staple of a standard security setup and a fast track for mobile business security. But, in a shifting climate, businesses are screaming for more fit-for-purpose solutions to secure corporate perimeter.
Among the top three incident types companies have faced in the cloud this past year were phishing (40%), ransomware (24%), and accidental data leakage (17%).
Verizon’s “2020 Data Breach Investigations Report” (DBIR) unveiled how the cost and risk associated with cybercrime is usually much higher than most predictions.
As organizations around the world move to the cloud, network perimeters continue to disappear, and more attack surfaces are exposed. Supply chains across all industries become more vulnerable to cybercriminals and nation-state hackers and, therefore, more easily infected.
The top tactics used by these smaller operations to improve processes was to invest in automated solutions and processes (80%) followed by investments in security training and certifications (61%), consolidation of security tools and platforms (61%), replacement of complex security technologies (52%), and outsourcing to service providers to fill security tool gaps (51%).
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