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Digital Transformation is a businesscritical priority , but if cybersecurity is not rolled in from day one , organisations will leave themselves , their employees , and their customers open to serious cyber risk .
What are the top two or three key priorities that you think CIOs or CISOs should be tackling in 2021 ?
Almost all IT professionals who we speak to believe that the risk of data breaches is far higher for remote workers and we don ' t disagree . This means that CISOs need to ensure that they have automated protection , detection and response capabilities incorporated into their toolkits to address the risks associated with this new operating paradigm . They ' ll need to be more concerned with visibility and control within their infrastructures , including endpoints , mitigating insider threats and ensuring secure access to applications and data , regardless of whether it is on-prem or in the cloud .
We also need to consider that SD-WAN starts to play a big part in this because it goes beyond being a branchlike solution . Organisations need to adopt a zero-trust approach to network access so they can see and control all devices and users across their entire network . And with this proactive protection , they can ensure that their networks are secure from the latest threats . Then , to address the influx of network logs and events that go with all of this technology , they need to leverage Artificial Intelligence-based security operations to include event correlation with SIEM and automated orchestration and response with SOAR capabilities .
How important is the security of OT networks and how can CISOs factor this into their overall security strategy ?
We see OT security as such a serious concern that , from a Fortinet point of view , it is one of our core pillars of business . The security of OT networks is a growing concern as it involves the world ' s largest factories ,
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