| | JUNE 2022ENTERPRISE SECURITY6Bad actors continue to capitalize on the widening gaps in endpoint security that all organizations are planning to improve in 2022. Chief information security officers (CISOs) and their teams are stretched thin and being asked to support larger virtual workforces, transition infrastructure to the cloud, and protect endpoints in an increasingly unpredictable threatscape. Automating endpoint security is critical to thwarting increasingly complex cyberattack strategies.In the same vein, security trends tend to be a consistent mix of "old" ­ think phishing scams and malware ­ and "new," such as the COVID-19 pandemic and its widespread impacts on organizations and individuals. That was true in 2021 and it will remain so in 2022.Even before the pandemic, more businesses were moving more of their IT assets and services to the cloud. The switch to a remote workforce in 2020 only accelerated this trend. Businesses realized they could retire old on-premises systems, modernize their IT infrastructure, and adopt a cloud-first architecture to better support remote employees at the same time.Providing security for today's new, cloud-based perimeter-less enterprise is a top security challenge for 2022 and beyond. Enterprise IT teams need security, risk, compliance, and operational solutions that address cloud-based endpoints as well as the traffic flows, asset configuration tasks, performance monitoring, capacity planning, and other IT services required for cloud migration itself. When business moves to the cloud, security and compliance need to follow.One of the most recent changes to enterprise IT involves security risks: 63% of cybersecurity experts reported an increase of threats since the pandemic began. With threats increasing and endpoints more varied, distributed, and vulnerable than ever before, it's time to adopt a "Zero Trust" model for IT security. This model assumes that no user on any endpoint at any location is to be trusted by default. In a zero-trust environment, nobody gets in anywhere without authentication.In a fast-changing IT world with thousands of "moat-less castles" to protect, Zero Trust is the IT security strategy that makes sense on-premises, in the cloud, and at every remote location.Let us know your thoughts.The Evolving World of Enterprise SecurityEditorialRussell Thomas Managing Editor editor@enterprisesecuritymag.comJUNE - 6 - 2022, Volume 8 - 5 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. (ISSN 2691-4034) To subscribe to ENTERPRISE SECURITYVisit www.enterprisesecuritymag.com Copyright © 2022 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.Managing EditorRussell ThomasEditorial StaffAaron PierceAlex D'SouzaAva GarciaCatalina Joseph Justin S GonsalvesJoshua ParkerVisualizersAsher BlakeSalesAlena D'Souzaalena@enterprisesecuritymag.comEmail:sales@enterprisesecuritymag.comeditor@enterprisesecuritymag.commarketing@enterprisesecuritymag.comDisclaimer: *Some of the Insights are based on our interviews with CIOs and CXOs
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