A New Approach to Cybersecurity
Traditionally, cybersecurity strategies have focused on protecting the perimeter infrastructure and layering in multiple point solutions to identify and block threats. This approach remains essential, but it’s not enough. Multiple security point solutions, agents, and management interfaces create opportunities for mistakes and misconfigurations. Also, apps are no longer just in your data center. They’re highly distributed across on-premises data centers, public clouds, containers, mobile, and edge environments.
Leading organizations know this—which is why they’re shifting from a hyper-focus on threats to a more holistic strategy that doubles down on reducing the attack surface by protecting from the inside out. They are operationalizing the concept of intrinsic security— and experiencing growth in return.
A case in point: According to a 2019 Forbes Insights study, 41 percent of enterprises considered cybersecurity “trailblazers” report annual growth rates exceeding 20 percent, compared with just 4 percent of their lagging counterparts who saw such breakthrough numbers.1 The report goes on to define the characteristics of a cybersecurity trailblazer, described as a company that devises security strategies with business objectives in mind and views security as having a direct impact on brand reputation, customer experience, growth, and innovation.
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CIO Essential Guidance: Intrinsic Security
