NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS
they making use of them ? Over the last 12 months we have seen global adoption of SaaS Management Platforms increase at an accelerated pace . Orchestrating SaaS applications in organisations and helping them maximize ROI on continually increasing SaaS spend is a large problem statement that requires significant operational effort from IT Teams .”
High profile attacks Business and IT leaders all over the world are replacing legacy , on-premises network technology with flexible , scalable , and cost-effective computing power in the cloud . Yet , many CISO ’ s are increasingly concerned about the security risks associated with the increased use of the public cloud . 94 % of organisations in ENEA Qosmos Division ’ s CISO cloud / SAAS Security Report said they are extremely , to moderately concerned about cloud security . A further 77 % said they were concerned about the malware infection of connected devices in the cloud .
Kurt Glazemakers , CTO at Appgate says : " More organisations will start adopting modern cloud driven , containerised , automated development methods , using advanced automated deploy processes ( devops ) to speed up development cycles this year . Network security controls need a similar boost in both agility and security as using traditional security approaches simply will not work anymore .”
The amount of high-profile incidents at companies including SolarWinds , Microsoft , T-Mobile , Facebook and Acer that successfully find ways around endpoint and perimeter defences and remain hidden and active in networks for a long time , have also left CISOs incredibly concerned . And for good reason . cybermagazine . com 69