Digital Technology is about adding new devices and users into your network

Ardaman Singh Kapoor 
Channel Manager East India and Bhutan- Fortinet Inc.  

“Digital transformation, according to me, is today adding more and more devices and users into the network and day to day life. Going forward, with respect to digital transformation, there will be a change in the security space. Predominant security things that we were doing will be transformed because of this digital transformation. I am not asking you to change the entire security arena as a result of this digital transformation, but there will be slight changes with respect to the access, with new devices coming in into the network. The attack surface on the devices and the users have broadened. Earlier we used to secure our LAN and devices, but today security has to be borderless. People have smartphones & smart devices and there are wi-fi and roaming users. So we have to secure our users whether they are inside or outside the organization. With the increase in these attack surfaces, we are trying to include more and more products to secure the entire network. With respect to that you will see that in an organization there will a number of OEMs to offer security products and protect the network. The challenge that comes up is manageability of so many OEMs, whether their devices are talking to each other, and whether the organization is getting a full-proof solution or not. So these are some of the challenges that come out of the security transformation.”