Application acceleration and network performance management solutions help quickly scale work-from-home models. This makes remote work productive and networks efficient and secure. Here are some security trends for 2021.
The challenges that working from home has brought to companies caused them to reevaluate their networks and the data on them. The number of home networks and BYO devices now involved in critical business operations has grown exponentially. Business operations are increasingly dependent on cloud-based infrastructures and solutions. In 2021, companies will reassess where their data resides and whether it is being held responsibly. Against this background, Riverbed's statements on security trends for 2021 are made.
The cloud boom
Accelerated by the sudden shift to remote work, companies have gradually moved all their data to the cloud. Essentially, this means that all business-critical corporate data resides on another company's machine. With the advent of SaaS, all business-critical applications are outsourced. Although this ensures the security of the applications, it also significantly limits the transparency of the data stored in them. Alarmingly, it is often unknown whether the infrastructure is actually monitored.
We already rely on critical business applications like Office365, Salesforce and Slack being in the cloud. Even custom applications that don't yet have a SaaS equivalent are migrating from the enterprise data center to IaaS. This year, organizations will grapple with where their data is, who really has access to it, and how to control or track it. Your options for managing data are usually limited. In addition, there are too few processes available to understand who is accessing which data from where (internal or external) and what the actual costs are. Visibility will be the new buzzword.
Falling returns on cloud storage
Businesses generate vast amounts of data. The simplest solution to this is to buy more and more storage space to put all that data in the cloud. Most data, such as former employees' SharePoint files, often remain untouched or remain unused for long periods of time. Organizations are losing sight of where that data really resides, what's happening to it, and whether or not it might go outside the organization.
This year, many companies are becoming aware of this problem. The haphazard cloud approach should therefore be reconsidered, both from a security and cost perspective. Not all data is worth paying to store. Also, given the high level of responsibility, companies will focus more on how to use cloud storage intelligently, securely and cost-effectively.
Out of sight, still in mind
Overall, the GDPR introduced comprehensive protections for the privacy of consumers and individuals. Enterprises will now realize that they are also responsible for the data that has been outsourced from the enterprise. They will only be able to meet the legal requirements if they focus on comprehensive monitoring.
Two is Better
2020 brought major changes and challenges for businesses that accelerated the rush to the cloud. While organizations have adapted quickly over the past year, this year they will be reviewing what they have been doing with their data and what they need to do going forward. In 2021 they will have to take responsibility for this data, no matter where it is.
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With Riverbed, organizations can maximize network and application performance, visibility, and reduce complexity. In this way, they fully exploit their investments in cloud and digital technologies. The Riverbed Network and Application Performance Platform allows companies to visualize, optimize, accelerate and troubleshoot the performance of any network and application. The platform takes a holistic approach to performance and transparency. It does this through industry-leading WAN optimization, network performance management (NPM), application acceleration (including Office 365, SaaS, client and cloud acceleration), and enterprise-grade SD-WAN. Riverbed's more than 30.000 customers include 99% of the Fortune 100.