FireMon news stories

"The study shows that a cocktail of multiplying threats, the proliferation of hybrid and cloud architectures, blended with a pandemic-fuelled explosion in distributed and remote work has created a perfect storm for network security teams."

Public and hybrid cloud infrastructure environment is growing in complexity, and lacks automation and a lack of resources to effectively respond to demands.

FireMon says the integration of the two cloud giants will help match the pace needed to protect systems from ongoing and increasing cyber threats and data breaches.

The survey shows that rate of change, lack of tools, and sparse resourcing are what worry security teams in the age of hybrid-cloud.

Flexibility and granularity of security controls is good but can still represent a risk for new cloud adopters that don’t recognise some of the configuration pitfalls.

Westcon Imagine 2014 - You’ve got your security technology in place and your SIEMs and logs – now you need an automated method to leverage those existing network security tools.