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As enterprise networks no longer stay within the premises, they are faced with a new set of security challenges. The struggle to deal with new technologies that can deal with these new security threats and fill the skill gap with modern technical know-how is genuinely overwhelming. In addition, more complex and fatal cyberattacks push organizations to look for integrated security solutions and secure all their endpoints and protect their resources by having secured access points.
So, there is an urgent need to be aware of the top security trends that organizations face today and adopt these new technologies to secure multiple and widespread network endpoints. So, let us quickly dive into them as we bring them together for you, as listed under:
Remote/Hybrid work is Here to Stay
SSL Certificate Security
Cyber-security mesh architecture
CSMA works under centralized identity management that makes it possible to be aware of all the activities taking place in the organization. Thus security of enterprise resources is ensured irrespective of decentralized infrastructure.
Use Of Attack Simulation (BAS) Tools
Using tools that can simulate real attacks like situations, e.g., building threat models, penetration testing, to test the weak links in the enterprise infrastructure at different levels and then work on them to seal all the security loop poles to upgrade to a heightened level of security must be followed.
Misuse Of Authentication
Enterprises face a new security trend of user authentication misuse. There are many authentication technologies available to take care of security at the access points like SAML(Security Assertion Markup Language) but, making use of some weak links in the user’s onsite environment, cyber-attacks have been carried out by surpassing the authentication process and getting onto the cloud and its applications and making its way to system networks by stealing privileged access. The US SolarWinds attack of 2020 is one example of exploiting limitations in the MS Windows authentication architecture process.
Extended Detection And Response (XDR) Platforms
Ransomware Attacks
Secure Access Service Access (SASE)
Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE, is a cloud service that gives effective security and networking solutions to decentralized enterprises with their remote workforce and distributed networks. SASE brings together wide-area networking( WAN) with network security as a cloud service that makes WAN execution simpler, efficient, with hardened security and proper application bandwidth allocation.
It offers many attractive network security features for such a fast-changing work environment for organizations like zero-trust network access (ZTNA), secure web gateway (SWG), firewall as a service (FWaaS), cloud access security broker (CASB). Furthermore, SASE being a cloud service gives enterprises the added advantage of being billed only for the exact usage of the service.
Supply Chain Attacks
Zero Trust Architecture
Zero trust architecture attaches zero trust to any network that is used to access resources. As enterprises have a distributed workforce, all the users must be verified, authenticated, and then authorized to access the resource. Therefore, no resource access request can be trusted unless verified in terms of the device, time, location, etc.
So, the basic principle of zero trust architecture is never to trust access requests but always verify from where it is coming and who it is from. The least privilege access approach should be taken to grant authorization. Assess what kind of permissions are just sufficient to get access request jobs done and then only give their access request. Pay attention to securing individual assets with the help of security policies and application-level controls.
Boards are adding cybersecurity to their priority agenda list. Securing all data across the distributed enterprise networks and working towards securing all the access points to the resources, wherever the workforce is located, should be the topmost priority for every enterprise. Hardening your enterprise security posture with the latest security trends in modern technologies discussed above, you will be in the best position to ward off new generation cyber security threats.