Cyber Magazine November 2023 | Page 105

OPERATIONS

“ THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT CATCHING ISSUES EARLY , IT IS ABOUT BUILDING A CULTURE WHERE SECURITY IS A HABIT , NOT AN AFTERTHOUGHT ”

AMIT TAILOR DIRECTOR , SYSTEM ENGINEERING PALO ALTO NETWORKS
According to a threat report by Palo Alto ’ s Unit 42 team , the cloud is the dominant attack surface , with 80 % of security exposures present in cloud environments compared to on-premise at 19 %. “ It also found that cloud-based IT infrastructure is always in a state of flux , changing by more than 20 % across every industry every month , and as such , nearly 50 % of high-risk , cloud-hosted exposures each month were a result of the constant change in cloud-hosted new services going online and old ones being replaced .”
To mitigate these risks , DevSecOps addresses this need by embedding security protocols directly within the DevOps
AMIT TAILOR
TITLE : DIRECTOR , SYSTEM ENGINEERING COMPANY : PALO ALTO NETWORKS LOCATION : UNITED KINGDOM
Tailor is a Director of System
Engineering at Palo Alto Networks . He joined Palo Alto in 2011 , having held roles at McAfee and CyberGuard .
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