A recent study has highlighted that organizations in India are gearing up to tackle cybersecurity threats that have increased with the adoption of a hybrid work model.
Cyber experts believe that the hybrid method of working has resulted in a greater adoption of digital operations, which has increased the need to protect the data generated.
Cybersecurity concerns have increased due to the adoption of a hybrid work model, and technology companies are preparing to combat them.
According to a recent Forrester study, 80 percent of organizations in India plan to implement a hybrid work model in the next 12 to 24 months. However, 71 percent of InfoSec leaders stated companies lacked high or complete visibility into remote employees’ home networks, which raises serious cybersecurity risks.
According to Huzefa Motiwala, Director of Systems Engineering for India and SAARC at Palo Alto Networks, hybrid work has widened the digital attack surface by bringing clouds, devices, networks, and endpoints into the mix. “Swapping between these, while they remain a part of the corporate network, can leave enterprises vulnerable to attacks. Too many of these can make developing a cybersecurity strategy a complex affair, while weak remote access policies and implicit trust on many devices make it easy for bad actors to gain entry and orchestrate a breach.”
Zero Trust Approach
Cisco’s Zero Trust platform, stated that it provides a solution for securing all access of an organization’s applications and infrastructure. Zero Trust is a security model based on maintaining strict access controls and the assumption that no one can be trusted by default.
Minhaj Zia, Director, Collaboration Sales, Cisco India and SAARC, said “Unlike traditional security, the protection offered by Zero Trust is not based solely on location. That way, you can make sure that only the right people and devices have permissions to access specific data at specified times. We also have a Secure Hybrid Work solution that unifies protection at scale and makes it easy for users to verify devices, enable secure access, and always defend hybrid workers from any location,”
IBM has also implemented a Zero Trust strategy, which provides effective access control while balancing risk and trust.
Prashant Bhatkal, Security Software Sales Leader, IBM Technology Sales, India and South Asia, said “We leverage IBM Security Software solutions that uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to analyze key parameters like user, device, activity, environment and behaviour — in context to determine holistic risk scores. This analysis drives more accurate, contextual authentication decisions to better protect both business and users‘ experience,”
According to the Dell Technologies Global Data Protection Index report, numerous organization lack the ability to manage mission-critical data because they now handling ten times more data the amount of data they did five years ago.
Ripu Bajwa, Director and General Manager, Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies India, said “With the rise of this data, the need to manage business processes across multiple networks has significantly risen. Therefore, it is imperative for businesses to ensure seamless management of data with customized cybersecurity infrastructure solutions. With the increase in entry points for malicious actors coupled with the rise of sophisticated ransomwares, malwares and leaks in sensitive information, the loss of mission-critical data can cripple an organization, retarding their growth in the digital era,”
Employees at Dell Technologies India are kept up to date on global data protection standards on a regular basis. Bajwa added “Our initiatives such as choosing a VPN (virtual private network), conducting a password audit, and embracing the correct infrastructure solutions at the workplace have been keeping employees at Dell Technologies, secure and optimistic,”