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CyberSecurity - It's Not Just About IT Anymore

The global COVID-19 pandemic forced enterprises to virtualize their operations literally overnight, moving employees outside of a cyber-secured perimeter to the security "wild west" of work from home. Compounding the challenges, effectively every business partner of each of those enterprises was confronted by the same challenges. Securing this new highly distributed environment became essential to the vitality and viability of the enterprise. The mission was now more than cyber security, it was about "Enterprise Risk" against the backdrop of the rapid digitization of the global economy. And we are never going back...

Resources are strained in organizations’ Security Operations Centers (SOCs) as corporations have virtualized their workforce. Millions of new remote workers face heightened cyberattacks outside the corporate security perimeter, requiring markedly more help. And supply chains, increasingly reliant on third-party support, are being targeted by skilled hackers while companies are consumed with chronic transportation restrictions and, according to Symantec, have already had to cope with a 78 percent increase in supply chain attacks in pre-pandemic 2019.

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