Intelligent CISO Issue 29 | Page 64

BUSINESS SURVEILLANCE performance and user behaviour enables the organisation to have visibility into which assets are doing well and which may be due for optimisation. When a problem is discovered, contextual information helps the operations team troubleshoot faster and more efficiently so the customer experience can continue with little or no interruption and anomaly detection can be used to drive proactive and even predictive responses. 2. Integrated security helps secure business apps at scale without adding to the security team’s workload. Security that is integrated into the load balancing solution provides the best defence. Bolt-on security products tend to be complex and hard to configure, particularly with regard to application security. Configuration and management of security features and the ability to adjust policies at a granular level needs be straightforward and easy. 3. Centralised management gives greater flexibility to respond quickly to changing business environments. A centralised management system Today, infrastructure is everywhere and the pace of change for operations and infrastructure will only increase in the future. that operates with an advanced load balancing solution will prevent conflicting policies. It will also ensure visibility of the application stack in both public and private clouds, as well as enable multiple regions to accommodate high availability, regulatory requirements, or other needs. 4. Support for containers simplifies and enables app portability across the infrastructure. Today, application infrastructure is becoming more and more complex; therefore, adoption of containers is becoming a growing method to address this complexity. Containers can orchestrate computing, networking and storage infrastructure on behalf of user workloads. This lets the organisation deploy cloud-native applications anywhere and control them with confidence. Any advanced load balancing technology that supports containers not only has to be able to automatically scale to accommodate changes in application traffic, but also must automatically update itself when changes are made to the infrastructure. Operations teams will not have to configure policies or otherwise actively manage the load after the advanced load balancing solution is configured. This allows operations teams to function more efficiently and organisations will get more value from them. How is A10 helping customers to overcome these kinds of challenges? With the rise in globally dispersed enterprises and new work-from-home requirements that are increasing traffic, 64 Issue 29 | www.intelligentciso.com