Indian CIOs are expected to focus their cloud investment on cloud system infrastructure services

Ripu Bajwa 
Director and GM, Data Protection Solutions, Dell Technologies, India 

“In the coming year, we see three trends that will cement the course for the cybersecurity and data protection landscape.

.   Increase in cloud services and corresponding data protection threats: The necessity to adapt to post-pandemic, remote working conditions has heightened the requirement for cloud-based services and infrastructure. According to Gartner, Indian CIOs are expected to focus their cloud investment on cloud system infrastructure services (IaaS).

.  Increase awareness around SOAR: Businesses are looking at ways to transform how they respond to threats and cyber-attacks in real-time. The industry is pivoting from automated detection to prevention and response with a focus on applying AI and machine learning to speed remediation. Mature businesses are adopting a single security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platform, and working with security service providers to improve their security operations.

. Need for Unified Visibility and Control: In 2022, enterprises will increasingly look for unified and proactive security measures to defend their landscape of technology assets, spanning legacy endpoints, mobile, and cloud workloads without overburdening staff and in-house management resources.”