EDITOR ’ S QUESTION
OZGUR DANISMAN , DIRECTOR – SALES ENGINEERING , EMERGING MARKETS , FORCEPOINT
s leaders in global security , we at
A
Forcepoint recognise that solving the most pressing security problems requires tight integration of capabilities that cross traditional product boundaries . The need for integrated products had been increasing in recent years , but 2020 has accelerated this trend .
Suddenly , businesses needed to navigate through curfews , social distancing and remote working . Many companies had to prioritise cloud adoption for Business Continuity . Given these macro factors , it ’ s not surprising to witness some of the most conservative organisations now utilising public clouds .
In the Middle East , close to 65 % of our customers own and operate their own data centres , manage systems and security operations – something I believe represents the wider industry base . In an owned environment , in order to operate securely , data centre leaders should look to managing virtualisation efforts , securing clientserver and server-server traffic and facilitating flexible connectivity among their branch offices with SD-WAN capable next-generation firewall
( NGFW ) solutions .
An increasing 35 % of our customers have opted to utilise cloud service providers both for SaaS and IaaS . Data security is a significant concern for companies using the cloud and enterprises should seek out DLP solutions which are integrated with Cloud Access Security Broker ( CASB ) products .
Our mission is to help our customers ‘ free the good and stop the bad ’, and the end goal is of course to allow employees to work from home securely , connecting to their applications remotely with ease .
Data centre leaders should demand built-in SSL-VPN functionality in NGFW products , so they are able to secure the data running on their employee ’ s workstations and apply a secure web browsing capability with unified endpoint security solutions . Particularly in the Middle East , security leaders need to seek out vendors that focus on cloud-first and are hybrid-ready : owned data centres are not going to disappear overnight .
We recently introduced the Dynamic Edge Protection ( DEP ) suite of cloudnative SASE solutions featuring new Cloud Security Gateway ( CSG ) and Private Access offerings . With DEP , we have the industry ’ s most comprehensive suite of converged capabilities to address the enterprise ’ s most critical work-fromhome security challenges across network security , threat protection , secure access and data protection .
It enables enterprises to use the cloud to transform their network and security architectures , simplify connectivity and unify security policy enforcement throughout their distributed application and network environments .
Forcepoint Private Access brings security – once delivered via a patchwork of point products – into the cloud . It dramatically improves and simplifies how customers can keep their people and data safe . It provides true SASE Security-as-a-Service that is ideal for safeguarding branch offices , SD-WAN connections and allowing employees to access the services hosted in the data centres ( be they public or private ) without needing any complicated infrastructure requirements . ◊
DATA SECURITY IS A SIGNIFICANT CONCERN FOR COMPANIES USING THE CLOUD AND ENTERPRISES SHOULD SEEK OUT DLP SOLUTIONS WHICH ARE INTEGRATED WITH CLOUD ACCESS SECURITY BROKER ( CASB ) PRODUCTS .
32 Issue 20 www . intelligentdatacentres . com