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‘‘ our third-party updates solution , but it was not yet a requirement . Most were either evaluating or in early planning phases and had not yet rolled out . Since COVID-19 , this has become a common question and requirement , so it was fortuitous we already had a release planned for November 2020 to deliver InTune support .
This same pattern plays out across many IT solutions . Ivanti ’ s proprietary patch solutions already had the ability to support remote users so what was previously ‘ nice-to-have ’ became ‘ essential ’.
Other capabilities like Remote Control , Discovery and many other IT tools used daily suddenly needed to shift off premise in their coverage . The Ivanti Neurons launch delivers on many of these needs . IT can no longer rely on a user to be on network or to be connected to a VPN to receive support . They need solutions that transcend the network and VPN providing seamless support for their customers .
Tell us about Ivanti Neurons – how is the technology helping security teams ?
Ivanti Neurons provides IT organisations with the capabilities they need to evolve . Many of the challenges we face today arguably have been solved in some way . What IT organisations need now is a means to solve problems at scale , while transcending the traditional network boundaries and with the ability to shift left .
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MANY CISOS HAVE HAD TO MAKE HARD DECISIONS AROUND PRIORITISING BUSINESS CONTINUITY OVER SECURITY IN THE SHORT TERM .
Ivanti Neurons for Discovery : know what ’ s on your network , make sense of your asset data and expand visibility . Ensuring there are no gaps or unmanaged devices is critical to securing your environment ’ s attack surface . Continuous discovery is essential to achieve better security . Finance and IT need to know how many assets they are managing , software inventory and usage . IT needs to ensure it is controlling change throughout the environment to facilitate Business Continuity . Ivanti Neurons for Discovery provides active and passive discovery capabilities , connectors to multiple data sources to achieve device and software reconciliation projects in days rather than months .
Ivanti Neurons Workspace : provides a shiftleft approach so first-line analysts can provide a better user experience to your customers . Ivanti Neurons Workspace brings the tools your analysts need to achieve a 360-degree view of devices , users , applications and services with real-time data . The automation capabilities and customisable actions allow your first-line analysts to take on actions previously escalated to specialists by taking advantage of powerful diagnostic and remediation capabilities .
Ivanti Neurons for Healing : Hyperautomation transforms your enterprise . Ivanti Neurons for Healing provides alwayson automation-powered bots that detect and resolve issues . Self-healing endpoints and Edge devices help optimise device performance , health and security throughout
your environment . Automation bots can detect configuration drift or performance issues and resolve them before a user even becomes aware of them .
To what extent will the future of cybersecurity be hyper-automation ?
Threat actors retain the upper hand . They only need to find one weakness while we need to defend against everything . Budgets are constrained , resources are limited and skill sets may be spread thin in the security space . Hyper-automation is the key to scaling our activities . With the same number of resources , we need to configure and set in motion security capabilities designed to make intuitive decisions quickly , drive awareness and anticipate rather than respond reactively to threats . Too often the tools to detect a vulnerability are different than those used to prioritise risks of one vulnerability versus another and most importantly the remediation of those vulnerabilities poses the greatest risk to our environment .
Any advice for CISOs looking to improve their security posture ?
Don ’ t let a good crisis go to waste . Executives are tuned into IT security issues right now . Use this opportunity not to ask for money , but as a means to educate and drive awareness to the C-suite and the board . This can drive cultural changes in an organisation to help others think about security issues and facilitate change . •
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