Security News > 2021 > March > Distributed and remote work creating a perfect storm for network security teams

"The study shows that a cocktail of multiplying threats, the proliferation of hybrid and cloud architectures, blended with a pandemic-fueled explosion in distributed and remote work has created a perfect storm for network security teams," said Satin H. Mirchandani, President and CEO of FireMon.

Five major areas for network security investment Automation - More than 50 percent of organizations are currently investing in automating policy management to safeguard against inefficient and risky functions and 79 percent say they'll implement security orchestration and automation within two years to improve agility and responsiveness.

Security-development misalignment: 82 percent of IT leaders admit their application development and network security operations teams are not well aligned.

From an automation perspective, respondents cited the need to increase security agility and accelerate responsiveness and reduce the mean time to discover and resolve security incidents as the major drivers.

Based on the survey findings, it is also clear that zero trust architecture will achieve broad adoption to support the transition to cloud architectures and ensure security for an increasingly remote workforce.

"Network security is in the midst of a tectonic shift. New technologies and approaches will rapidly become the norm, forcing security teams to rethink how they manage access policies and ensure compliance in a changing and highly heterogeneous world," concludes Mirchandani.

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