Security News > 2021 > June > Driving network transformation with unified communications

Unified communications has become a significant part of an organization's digital transformation strategy, with the aim of establishing strong and reliable communication lines.

As almost all unified communications are hosted in the cloud, businesses are faced with the challenge of protecting their sensitive data against cyber threats targeting the cloud, which can be a lucrative target for threat actors who look to hijack accounts and bypass authentication procedures.

There are various technical solutions that can help with both security and quality of experience challenges, all of which can improve businesses' unified communication approaches.

With a large proportion of unified communications being hosted in the cloud, businesses need to find a solution that delivers network and security functions through the cloud.

Implementing SASE as part of a digital transformation strategy can help secure unified communications, as it applies security based on the communication session and can therefore take into consideration the identity of both the user and the device as well as the data context of the transaction.

Unified communications has evolved considerably over the past decade, so much so that it allowed businesses to somewhat function during the pandemic in 2020.

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