Security leaders are driving digital transformation and adopting new technologies to extend their network reach all while maintaining the ability to deliver speed and convenience to their customers. However, the global digital evolution has led to inadequate security frameworks, which means CISOs, and CIOs must ensure their network infrastructure is properly protected to prevent any customer downtime. This blog covers 5 areas that CISOs must consider while traveling the path of digital transformation.
The Risks of Digital Transformation
Digital-first strategies using 5G, IoT, the increased adoption of cloud, edge and software-defined architectures accelerate the opportunity for hackers to disrupt your enterprise with their cache of malware and data breach exploits. Businesses must prioritize the ability to respond to emerging risks before the business is impacted, with automated, real-time detection and response.
The Network Effect: Exposure
Network Effect exists when the addition of an element, makes all the existing elements perform better. For example, digital networks connect the world, which in turn enables everything and everyone to find, connect and engage wherever and whenever we expect. However, Network Effect increases the gateways for cybercriminals to impact all or part of your global operations and critical partners, exploiting them for their own financial gain and damaging your entire user experience. The most advantageous mitigation against any risk is a real-time solution that can block a cyberattack while seamlessly allowing your business operations to continue as normal.
Devastation of DDoS Attack Impacts
DDoS is a prime example of an attack type that can turn into an incident that costs you millions. Loss of revenue, customers, market share and brand image contribute to the devastating impact due to network disruption of your enterprise. If a DDoS attack is not instantly blocked by an appropriate protection tool, not only does it create a performance degradation on the network, but it opens the opportunity for the attacker to launch other malware and data exfiltration attacks. Every second counts to digital-first enterprises because any outage of more than a few seconds will be picked up by consumers and detrimentally impact business operations.
Customer Demands: Denial
With the world at our fingertips, you and your customers want answers, expect decisions, and the ability to communicate in real-time. DDoS protection can deliver always-on flexibility, but the majority are secondary defense mitigators – resulting in minutes or hours to restore customer networks and valued services, denying the obsession of customer demand. As technology has made many of us much less patient, it is essential to protect your network topology with “always-on” and “real-time” protection solutions to meet customer expectations.
Secure Your Business for the Future: Prepare
When considering a tool that delivers the most effective DDoS mitigation, it is essential to evaluate the true capabilities of different vendors and how they will meet your needs. Not all DDoS solutions are created equal! Corero has developed a set of self-completion questionnaires to ensure you are protected. Download the assessment sheets here: go.corero.com/ddos-assessment-tools.