News in the Channel - October 2022

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of organizations will use cybersecurity risk as a primary determinant in conducting third- party transactions and business engagements.

of enterprises will adopt a strategy to unify web, cloud services and private application access from a single vendor’s security service edge platform.

of C-level executives will have performance requirements related to risk built into their employment contracts.

Below are five cybersecurity trends enterprises must embrace as they move forward from the pandemic.

A ZERO TRUST APPROACH MUST BE ADOPTED A new name for an old concept, Zero trust is a principle that relies on the entire technology infrastructure being designed to check and recheck the identity and security posture of each entity and to continuously monitor the activities of each. Every endpoint, user, device, application or service needs to be verified. Access should be granted only to the resources each entity needs. This requires widespread cooperation among security architects and engineers, system and network administrators, software developers and other technology professionals. Implementation is almost always a phased, multi-year effort, and that's why there's increasing pressure on businesses to start adopting zero- trust principles as soon as possible. This is where you can offer the Fortinet Fabric solution to address these concerns on a shorter timescale.

INCIDENT RESPONSE CAPABILITIES ARE VITAL Cyberattacks continue to increase in number and severity. In response to this, legislators look to hold businesses more accountable. Robust incident response is fundamental now, because many regulations incorporate reporting requirements. It's become painfully obvious that most organisations are unprepared for ransomware incidents. An incident response plan isn’t a “set and leave it” process. Digital transformation has also eliminated the idea of a network perimeter and as more technologies are added to the IT stack the more your attack surface expands. Partners can offer services like Fortinet’s Cyber Threat Assessment to test vulnerabilities in the infrastructure as well as detection and remediation solutions to ensure the response goes smoothly and services are restored quickly.

ACKNOWLEDGE SUPPLY CHAIN RISKS Not an easy issue to fix, step one is to acknowledge the risk. The Solarwinds incident demonstrates that what starts with a single infiltrated company can lead to millions of organisations and individuals being compromised. Organisations need to recognize and acknowledge the risks from supply chains and to hold suppliers accountable for poor security practices that lead to compromises and demand more transparency into supply chain parties’ security practices, as well as adding cybersecurity checks and requirements into new procurements. Offering customers a broad, automated, integrated cybersecurity mesh approach, like the Fortinet Security Fabric, means partners offers protection and delivers consistent security across an organization’s entire digital attack surface.