The focus initially was around securing the core infrastructure and digital assets and hence the different solutions in the protection stack were gaining vital traction. Slowly as the cyber exploits became more frequent and common, the solutions categories to cope with them and fight any attempt of exploit grew. But strengthening the weakest links of any enterprise security infrastructure – employees / humans – has been a persistent challenge for organizations. They all aim to build human firewalls via training and user education. Additionally, with the stringent policies and more compliance to meet, Governance and Risk Compliance solutions and services became important too.
We realized that each of these waves of evolution was enabled by few tech megatrends and it is imperative to envision how the emerging technologies of today can shape the security needs and solutions for the next wave of evolution.
Some of the opportunities that we could map out include:
Protection Stack
- DL/ML based Endpoint/Insider Protection
- Microservices and API Protection/Security
- Unified Security delivered via Cloud (SASE etc.)
- Connected Devices Security
- Machine to Machine Communication Security
Security Operations
- Access Risk Intelligence
- Non-Human Attack Prevention
- Threat/Anti-Breach Solutions
- Blockchain-based Digital IAM
Security Culture and Governance
- Employee Awareness: Human Firewall Solutions
- Advanced Cyber Range Solutions
- Automated Compliance Management Tools
With our analysis and multiple conversations with the industry experts, some of the themes became evident to us. Cloud delivered security, Zero Trust, Protection for the Microservices, and APIs to name a few. One more theme in the evolution of cybersecurity we found interesting was the unbundling of security solutions and services and the re-bundling that is happening now. Network UTMs, Endpoint UTMs, and Enterprise Security Suites started appearing in the late 1990s which were bundled solutions to cater to the security demands of an enterprise or their digital assets. Over the years the complexity of threats was increasing rapidly and vulnerabilities were rising in the applications and enterprise infrastructure. This led to the need for advanced security solutions that can provide specialized security against certain types of threats/vulnerabilities. Payment security solutions, WAF, etc are the individual security products that enterprises deploy on top of the existing security blanket. There was clear unbundling happening in the cybersecurity space.
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