IT professionals are dealing with an unprecedented number of cyber security challenges in the wake of the pandemic and the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine. As threats become more advanced and the risk of nation-state attacks increases, businesses are feeling the strain. According to research from IDC data, 83% of cyber security specialists confirm they are struggling to cope with the sheer volume of security alerts.
In this rapidly changing world, uncertainty has become the new normal and now more than ever, companies want to protect the integrity of their businesses in a way that can withstand unpredictable threats and emerge stronger. This is where security resilience comes in.
Operating securely in the new normal
Companies are making huge investments in their entire business infrastructure in order to strengthen resilience. From financial and operational all the way through to the supply chain, these initiatives are designed to help businesses thrive in this new reality. As security becomes enmeshed in every aspect of business operations, security resilience is now more integral to business sustainability than ever before.
Security resilience must deal with a new, interconnected world. Businesses are operating more agile, hybrid ecosystems where the boundaries between corporations, customers, suppliers, and partners all blur. Additionally, connections between people, devices, and data are ever-expanding with billions of touchpoints. Meanwhile, businesses are adjusting to the constantly shifting work patterns, and hybrid work is now a mainstay in the corporate world. With everything now more open and connected, security resilience requires more than traditional security can offer.
The five critical components of security resilience
At the heart of this shift to multi-environment networks are the five components of security resilience. These are:
- Complete Visibility: the ability to activate billions of signals across your ecosystem with active monitoring and filtering
- Being One Step Ahead: embrace shared, actionable intelligence and expertise to always know when your world changes
- Taking the Right Action: prioritise what’s most important with risk-based context analysis and continuous trust assessment of everyone and everything
- Closing the Gaps: achieve pervasive defence across an ecosystem with an open, integrated platform across campus, data center, cloud, edge so you can find it and fix it faster
- Getting Stronger Every Day: optimise efficacy by orchestrating and automating your response so you can spring back faster
How can Cisco support your business?
Security resilience helps businesses withstand changes and emerge stronger. From increased visibility to better threat intelligence to stronger orchestration and automation, security resilience protects your organisation across the campus, data center, cloud, and edge.
With over 25,000 small business customers, Cisco’s range of affordable IT solutions allow your team to collaborate remotely whilst working on a secure reliable IT network. Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offers an alternative to traditional data centre-orientated security. It unifies security services into a cloud-delivered service to provide access and security from edge to edge including the data centre, remote offices, roaming users and beyond. It’s simple, secure, and scalable.
Contact our Cisco team to discuss cyber security solutions.