Security News > 2020 > February > The Urgency for Having a True Security Platform

A true security platform should be able to deliver essential security solutions into a complex network environment while reducing things like management, configuration, and orchestration overhead. But to differentiate between a real platform strategy that can simplify the lives of your IT team members, and a set of solutions that simply shift the complexity of managing independent security tools from the wiring closet to a box, we need to define exactly what we mean when we use the term platform.

To qualify as broad, a cybersecurity platform needs to provide effective and consistent security across the entire distributed network - including multi-clouds, branch offices, edge networks, mobile devices, and data centers - to enable digital innovation and protect every edge in the infrastructure.

The security elements built into the platform need to be automated to not only enable them to detect and respond to events at digital speeds individually, but to also correlate data and coordinate responses across and between platforms for more effective and comprehensive threat detection and resolution.

A security platform needs to enable security-driven networking and be able to tightly integrate an organization's network infrastructure and security architecture together to ensure that whenever the networking infrastructure evolves or expands, security adapts because it is an integral part of the environment.

Internal Segmentation: A security platform also needs to see beyond the perimeter controls to manage internal network risk through access control and dynamic internal segmentation - including working in conjunction with wireless access points and the wired switching infrastructure, to enhance threat detection, automated threat protection, and policy enforcement.

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