{"id":22664,"date":"2016-05-28T14:03:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T06:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=22664"},"modified":"2018-06-29T05:07:48","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T21:07:48","slug":"cloud-security-experts-agree-diversifying-solutions-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/05\/28\/cloud-security-experts-agree-diversifying-solutions-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"For cloud security, experts agree diversifying solutions is needed"},"content":{"rendered":"

SINGAPORE \u2013 With cloud now the new tech norm, a persistent issue plaguing adoption is security to mitigate business risks. And here, experts agree that for many businesses, sustaining robust cyber security on their own is somewhat impossible. Instead, help from experts is needed; and here, diversified solutions come in handy, particularly since an estimated 90,000 infections occur per day, costing businesses worldwide $60 million dollars per year in breach-related costs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This, too, was the message of security experts at the 2016 NetEvents APAC Press and Analyst Summit, where evolving security solutions was emphasized to respond to also-evolving security risks that companies face in the eventual shift to cloud.<\/p>\n

For Bryan Gale, VP for product marketing of Cylance, \u201cwhile conventional wisdom says that the bigger the threat, the more security a company needs,\u201d an option that is now fast emerging is the use of a lightweight \u201cbut highly intelligent\u201d system may actually provide better protection. This is why Cylance is advocating for the shift to \u2013 not just recognition of \u2013 artificial intelligence (AI) when responding to security threats.<\/p>\n

Gale said that security\u2019s evolution has been somewhat linear. In the past, the approach was pre-execution of solutions that required human intervention. This evolved to anti-exploitation (shielding of browsers and programs from attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in their code), which then evolved to sandboxing (you run something in isolation and see what it does), and then to isolation (a form of sandboxing where you create a \u2018wrapper\u2019), and then EDR (hunting inside an environment to see attacks). The future, however, is in AI, Gale said, as this goes back to pre-execution of solutions to threats, though this time around, no humans will be needed anymore.<\/p>\n

Cylance\u2019s approach to stopping malware before it ever executes is to use a lightweight agent that predicts and prevents cyber threats using artificial intelligence and machine learning. It now serves over 1,000 global organizations and millions of computers.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t (continue to) scale with using people,\u201d Gale said.<\/p>\n

For Wedge Networks, a company into Orchestrated Threat Management, there are benefits in \u201cleveraging the cloud to mitigate business risk for service providers launching cloud-based cyber security services, and for enterprises adopting new services\u201d. Here, Wedge Cloud Network Defense (or CND) is a now featured in a number of Proof of Concept (PoC) deployments of Tier One service providers planning to launch Security-as-a-Service from the cloud, particularly throughout the APAC region.<\/p>\n

According to Gary Tate, managing director for Asia Pacific at Wedge Networks, \u201cleveraging cloud infrastructure to deliver security with performance, scale and efficiency, without requiring dedicated hardware, is a huge asset. The cloud-based approach reduces investment risk, which ultimately allows (businesses) to accelerate new and dynamic services.\u201d<\/p>\n

This solution is also tailor-fit to SMEs that are \u201cvirtually impossible\u2026 to sustain robust cyber security on their own. Security operating at the cloud-layer of the network is essential, but most businesses lack the skilled resources, cloud infrastructure and capital budget to implement this layer of security on their own. Fortunately, new cloud-based Security-as-a-Service initiatives by communications service providers (CSPs) promise to address this market need in a way that minimizes risk and enhances the business case for service providers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, further diversifying the security offering is Menlo Security, whose offering is \u2013 in a gist \u2013 to isolate. The issue, according to Peter Lunk, VP for marketing of Menlo Security, is somewhat simple: \u201cWe assume that all (web generated data is) bad,\u201d he said. That is, \u201cin the architecture of the web today, it\u2019s not just traffic that is bad, but also ads (in pages\/sites), emails, et cetera. <\/em>So even if you have good security, everything that comes into your site poses a risk. If one of the sites feeding into another site is vulnerable, then that site is also vulnerable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lunk said that \u201ctraditionally, the approach is to use different detection methods.\u201d However, \u201cthis approach has not been working; hackers always find a way to get past the detection agent. Security can\u2019t guarantee that bad traffic can\u2019t get through.\u201d<\/p>\n

Menlo Security\u2019s solution is to \u201cisolate it, and only provide visual representation of the data so no security breach ever happens.\u201d To up the ante, \u201cexecute it in the cloud.\u201d This way, \u201cwe can say 100% safety via isolation; no malware risk from the web.\u201d<\/p>\n

With cloud now the new norm, security \u2013 too \u2013 becomes the new must-consider. And here, diversification is key indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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