Not too long ago, during an executive briefing, I was asked a thought-provoking question by the CISO of a large airline in the US. He asked, “Brijesh, microsegmentation solutions have existed for a decade. Based on your experience, can you tell me why so many microsegmentation projects fail, and why it is so difficult to achieve microsegmentation across hybrid IT … [Read more...] about Guide for a Successful Microsegmentation Project
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Fundamentals of a Successful Logging and Observability Strategy
Your team is responsible for ensuring the reliability and performance of your organization’s critical applications and infrastructure.What keeps you up at night?Your applications are more complex, distributed and cloud-native than ever, meaning that understanding what’s happening under the hood has never been more complex than it is now. Is it system bugs, or data bottlenecks? … [Read more...] about Fundamentals of a Successful Logging and Observability Strategy
Secrets to successful engineering leadership from Elastic’s Simona Posea
For Simona Posea, visualizing a career in technology came easily.“My mother was a role model, as she’s been working with computers since punch cards were a thing,” Simona laughs. “We had our first PC when I was six years old, and she taught us how to operate it. At the time, I would use it to play games.”This early interest in technology was further reinforced when Simona took … [Read more...] about Secrets to successful engineering leadership from Elastic’s Simona Posea
A Key Factor for Platform Teams To Be Successful
Centralize or decentralize, what cycle are we in?As an industry analyst at Gartner, we would often discuss whether people were in a centralized or decentralized cycle. In business, it’s normal to investigate options for creating innovation and moving quickly, or focus on reducing cost and optimizing teams and technologies. The current cycle we have been in has lasted roughly10 … [Read more...] about A Key Factor for Platform Teams To Be Successful
A Key Factor for Platform Team To Be Successful
Centralize or decentralize, what cycle are we in?As an industry analyst at Gartner, we would often discuss whether people were in a centralized or decentralized cycle. In business, it’s normal to investigate options for creating innovation and moving quickly, or focus on reducing cost and optimizing teams and technologies. The current cycle we have been in has lasted roughly10 … [Read more...] about A Key Factor for Platform Team To Be Successful
Creating a Path to Successful Security Hygiene
Security posture management challenges are driven by the growing attack surface. Organizations have accelerated cloud computing initiatives and have been forced to support a growing population of remote users as a result of the pandemic. Firms are also deploying new types of devices as part of digital transformation initiatives, further exacerbating the growing attack surface, … [Read more...] about Creating a Path to Successful Security Hygiene
How to drive a successful, proactive tech refresh
One of the five main findings in our newly published Security Outcomes Study, Volume 2, was the clear benefit in having a proactive strategy of refreshing business-critical technologies. So, what exactly does this mean — and why are we focusing on it here? In Part 1 of this five-part blog series focusing on each of the top five security practices outlined in the study, a tech … [Read more...] about How to drive a successful, proactive tech refresh
A Successful Security Platform Requires the Strongest Partner Ecosystem
What’s in a name? When it comes to the term ‘security platform,’ quite a lot, going by its overuse in the industry. This moniker is increasingly being deployed in the marketplace to describe varying types of solutions. We maintain that in order for an offering to be called a security platform, it must meet the following criteria: Comprehensive coverage: A platform offers … [Read more...] about A Successful Security Platform Requires the Strongest Partner Ecosystem
Simplified Security for a Successful Digital Transformation
Leveraging end-to-end threat protection to prepare for what’s now and what’s next It’s no secret that the world has changed significantly in the past year, probably forever. Even before 2020, companies were under immense pressure to go digital to keep up with increasing demands for ubiquitous connectivity. Recent events have further accelerated that need, with a dramatic … [Read more...] about Simplified Security for a Successful Digital Transformation