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ORGANISATIONS ARE INCREASINGLY MAKING THE MOVE TO A HYBRID IT MODEL AS PART OF THEIR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION JOURNEYS , INCREASING THE NEED FOR AN OPEN , CLOUD-BASED PLATFORM THAT SEAMLESSLY BUILDS SECURITY INTO THESE ENVIRONMENTS . WE BRING YOU A ROUND- UP OF COVERAGE FROM QUALYS ’ RECENT QSC EMEA 2021 EVENT , EXPLORING HOW THE COMPANY HAS ADAPTED ITS OWN STRATEGY TO SUPPORT CUSTOMERS WITH THEIR CLOUD SECURITY OBJECTIVES .
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Chairman and CEO at Qualys , provided a clear call to action on how to successfully overcome today ’ s security challenges , at the QSC EMEA 2021 12-day virtual event .
Why organisations need an open , cloudbased platform to build security into their hybrid IT environments
With enterprise IT environments getting exponentially more complex with the increasing adoption of cloud computing , he explained that the key to attaining seamless security and compliance is to shift to open cloud platforms that interoperate with each other .
With this new model allowing organisations to build security natively into their IT infrastructure , and to take a risk-based approach anchored by an always updated global IT asset inventory , he argued that this is the only way to have the scale , speed , accuracy , visibility and context needed to protect today ’ s hybrid and dynamic IT infrastructures .
In a world where connected devices are exploding , visibility across all devices ( known and unknown ) and environments is essential .
“ Creating an accurate inventory or ‘ cartography of your entire hybrid environment ’ which is always up-to-date and seamlessly integrated into your security stack , is the foundation for a comprehensive security programme ,” said Courtot .
Rethinking security
With drastic changes that the migration to the cloud is bringing to security , it ’ s important to consider what organisations should do to cope with these changes .
“ It ’ s very clear that today , we must rethink security and that security is at a crossroad . We all know that we have lost the little visibility that we had , especially today in that world where not only do we have to deal with our current competing infrastructure or network centric computing ,” said Courtot .
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