"Security should be built into the IT Infrastructure and applications, not bolted on"

Harshavardhan Kathaley, Director, Channel Sales (India & SAARC), Juniper Networks

Measures to be taken for Cyber threats

Situational awareness is the most important subject of interest for any Chief Security Officer (CSO) today. This is a very broad scope here but if any organization reaches a state of full visibility and proactive security landscape awareness, then they have won half the battle. The other half is about how well the organization responds.  

This is where I would reiterate the importance of an organization working as one. The responsibility to safeguard against cyber threats cannot be just owned by the security team. The discipline to be alert, preventative measures, and ability to thwart threats is a cultural goal that organizations should aspire to achieve.

Security should be built into the IT Infrastructure and applications, not bolted on. Different devices of the network should be able to talk to each other and act together to fight against cyber threats.

Solutions for sophisticated attacks

It is a fact that lot of development in machine learning (ML), AI and crowd sourced data utilization happens in the dark web. As security solution providers, we are constantly challenged by these attackers which drives innovation to be able to beat them.  Our success is how we could be a step ahead of them. Some of our best work also happens in this space.

•    Case in point is the Juniper Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) solution. We have built one of the best ML based ATP system that combines the best of what Juniper had in its Cloud ATP offering and the cutting-edge solution we inherited from our acquisition of Cyphort. Juniper Sky ATP solution can provide protection against the day-zero malware attacks which are primary source of security concern these days.

•    The Juniper Mist AI Engine is widely considered as the flag bearer of the AI Revolution that is taking over the network & security Space. Our goal is to integrate all our Enterprise solutions under the Mist AI Umbrella and when that happens the possibilities are limitless.

•    Zero-trust security policy can be a good option to protect the organization against such coordinated attacks. The acquisition of 128Technology by Juniper empowered us with Session Smart Routing based SD-WAN solution, which is built on zero-trust security policy.

Juniper Connected Security solution can help organizations to protect against such coordinated attack.

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