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The Challenges

Organizations are revamping the enterprise WAN edge with solutions like SD-WAN and SASE, and expanding IT infrastructure into private clouds and multiple public clouds (multicloud). As new locations are added and as existing infrastructure is upgraded, CISOs need to ensure a secure and agile IT foundation across an enterprise’s infrastructure. In both hybrid and multicloud deployments, enterprises need new virtualized security solutions that can provide visibility and control over disparate cloud environments, across bare metal, virtual machines and containers.

This problem is exacerbated at the enterprise edge, where IT is tasked with ensuring the security of remote workers, many working from home, without impacting their productivity. CISOs are now partially responsible for securing employee home offices, a significant expansion of the enterprise threat surface. This is on top of workers taking advantage of mobile technologies to work from anywhere. Meanwhile, the CISO faces challenges in recruiting qualified security staff to relieve overworked team members inundated with false alarms and suffering from alert fatigue.

At the same time, new multilayer, multistage attacks are exploding, with innovative ransomware, zero-day exploits, supply chain-based attacks, sophisticated social engineering techniques, and other advanced threats. Recent nation-state attacks have impacted enterprises globally, undermining trust in established software development and distribution, and exposing weaknesses in the monitoring of infrastructure devices. Understanding and tracking the progress of new threats along the cyber kill-chain and within frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK has become a critical necessity. Further, new visibility capabilities are needed, including preventing initial infection, detecting lateral movement of malware between VM and containers and blocking exfiltration of critical enterprise data.

Unfortunately, unsophisticated security and monitoring tools don’t provide the necessary coverage of new IT infrastructure, nor do they have the intelligence to recognize and be effective against new threats. They do not provide an understanding of how an enterprise has been breached or how to mitigate those breaches. IT’s attempts to solve the problem by purchasing single point products to cover each disparate location and situation is cost-prohibitive, and lack an integrated approach that combines information from multiple products and external threat feeds. Point products do not service the expanding enterprise edge and the cloud particularly well, especially given the pervasiveness of virtualization and containerization in cloud environments. Yet organizations are exposed if they do not have the comprehensive visibility to see what’s going on everywhere, edge to cloud; the intelligence to understand the nature of what’s happening and how they are being breached; and the capability and performance to act in real-time to mitigate and stop ongoing attacks.