18 min
Cybersecurity at the Enterprise Forefront: What’s Different this Time? Network Security for a Hybrid Business World
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- Tecnología
Over the course of a few short weeks in early 2020, business as we know it changed. As lockdowns caused by COVID-19 spread worldwide, organizations scrambled to keep the lights on. Working from home was the only way to keep business rolling. The thing is, connecting and supporting employees from home meant that the traditional perimeter for security — Which had already been eroding under pressure from the work-at-home trend — was now obsolete.
“I think when the pandemic hit, focus was on making the remote workforce as productive as possible and as fast as possible,” says Comcast Business’s Shena Seneca Tharnish, VP Cyber Security.
Once established, enterprise businesses began rethinking their cybersecurity approach, Tharnish says, because previous architectures that enabled security defenses in datacenters and in branch offices were being bypassed. “When this happens, securing the network perimeter is not good enough and enterprises must shift to the endpoint or to wherever the edge has expanded to.”
Legacy networks catered to centralized apps and predictable demands, with most users operating within the perimeter and network managers taking a set-it-and-forget-it approach. Now, with the boom of digital, networks connect us all, and carry a lot of critical data that drives business intelligence, day-to-day operations and innovation. And it does this increasingly outside of any corporate firewall or perimeter.
In this first episode of Comcast’s podcast series “Network Security for a Hybrid Business World,” we will look at the network challenges of the modern enterprise — an enterprise that’s now distributed, connected, and oftentimes vulnerable.
Over the course of a few short weeks in early 2020, business as we know it changed. As lockdowns caused by COVID-19 spread worldwide, organizations scrambled to keep the lights on. Working from home was the only way to keep business rolling. The thing is, connecting and supporting employees from home meant that the traditional perimeter for security — Which had already been eroding under pressure from the work-at-home trend — was now obsolete.
“I think when the pandemic hit, focus was on making the remote workforce as productive as possible and as fast as possible,” says Comcast Business’s Shena Seneca Tharnish, VP Cyber Security.
Once established, enterprise businesses began rethinking their cybersecurity approach, Tharnish says, because previous architectures that enabled security defenses in datacenters and in branch offices were being bypassed. “When this happens, securing the network perimeter is not good enough and enterprises must shift to the endpoint or to wherever the edge has expanded to.”
Legacy networks catered to centralized apps and predictable demands, with most users operating within the perimeter and network managers taking a set-it-and-forget-it approach. Now, with the boom of digital, networks connect us all, and carry a lot of critical data that drives business intelligence, day-to-day operations and innovation. And it does this increasingly outside of any corporate firewall or perimeter.
In this first episode of Comcast’s podcast series “Network Security for a Hybrid Business World,” we will look at the network challenges of the modern enterprise — an enterprise that’s now distributed, connected, and oftentimes vulnerable.
18 min