{"id":36697,"date":"2019-10-04T00:58:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T16:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=36697"},"modified":"2019-10-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T17:00:00","slug":"it-needs-to-be-freed-from-being-reactive-to-being-proactive-says-ciscos-ravi-chandrasekaran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/10\/04\/it-needs-to-be-freed-from-being-reactive-to-being-proactive-says-ciscos-ravi-chandrasekaran\/","title":{"rendered":"IT needs to be freed from being reactive to being proactive, says Cisco\u2019s Ravi Chandrasekaran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA \u2013 Digitization is driving disruption. So said Ravi Chandrasekaran, SVP for enterprise networking business of Cisco, here at NetEvents 2019: Global IT Summit, as he stressed that \u2013 exactly because of IT-related disruptions \u2013 the traditional ways of doing business just won\u2019t work anymore.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a \u201cneed to transition to a digital-ready network,\u201d\nhe said, and so with this, \u201cautomation is key.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it is, with digitization, businesses are always at risk\nfor being breached. \u201cWhen you look at security in this new world, it\u2019s\ncompletely different. Cyberattacks are accelerating, (and) companies lose\nhundreds of millions from malware,\u201d Chandrasekaran said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How this happens is simple \u2013 for instance, a laptop can get\ninfected; when this is plugged into a network, the malware moves from there to the\nnetwork; and after finding a weakness I that network, the damage is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll it takes is four minutes to bring down a network,\u201d Chandrasekaran said, even if containing the same breach can take, on average, 60 days; with the average cost of data breach pegged at $3.8 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The costs of data breaches may actually be higher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July, IBM and the Ponemon Institute released “Cost of a Data Breach<\/em><\/a>“, which noted that the latest cost of a data breach averages $3.9 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Cost of a data breach”<\/em> from IBM\/Ponemon Institute<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Among the companies surveyed by IBM\/Ponemon Institute, in fact, data breaches cost companies $150 million per record, a figure higher than 2018\u2019s $148 million, which was also up from $141 million in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A promising move that is seen, though, is security\nautomation, with companies that deployed such technologies experiencing around\nhalf the cost of a breach ($2.65 million on average) compared to those that did\nnot have these technologies deployed ($5.16 million average). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not surprisingly, for Chandrasekaran, \u201cthis is why businesses\nshould focus on automation and data-driven network with built-in security.\u201d\nThis will \u201cfree IT from being reactive to being proactive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhen you look at security in this new world, it\u2019s completely different. Cyberattacks are accelerating, (and) companies lose hundreds of millions from malware,\u201d said Ravi Chandrasekaran, SVP for enterprise networking business of Cisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[410,103,54],"class_list":["post-36697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cisco","tag-malware","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}