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Organizations Are

Adopting Superfast

Defense Mechanisms

to Protect Data

Rajesh Maurya
Regional Vice President,
India & SAARC, Fortinet

Trusted by more than 530,000 Today, integrated, automated A mesh architecture needs to
customers, Fortinet delivers platforms that provide visibility protect people, devices, and data
i n t e g r a t e d , b r o a d a n d and trigger superfast defense on any network regardless of the
automated protections for mechanisms are being adopted. edges they cross. The firewall is at
companies, securing data, Because cybersecurity is so the core of the approach, providing
critical devices, and connections complex, streamlining cannot be high levels of security and robust

from the data center to the cloud done by simply removing devices. inspection for the edge, at the edge
and even the home office. In an Organizations will need more tools t o i n c r e a s e t h e s p e e d a n d
exclusive conversation, Rajesh to detect ever subtler tactics and effectiveness of detecting threats
Maurya talks about the need for a techniques in the future. Devices in real-time.
robust data security strategy need to share threat information Zero-trust methodologies must

and how the data security and shrink the gaps through which also be part of the approach
market will likely perform in India attackers slip in to reduce because establishing identity and
and globally. complexity. assessing posture is critical.
Best Data Security Practices Protection of the endpoint using
Need for a Robust Data Security EDR and XDR will also be necessary
Strategy Today, we are witnessing the as the need to support increasingly

With the explosion of edge ability of advanced security to connected experiences rises.
devices, the complexity of the enable levels of innovation never
architectures, and the paramount seen before. In addition to Unified policy management and
importance of securing our hyper- security-driven networking, zero- o r c h e s t r a t i o n e n g i n e w i t h
connected world, the old-school trust network access, adaptive supporting APIs must allow for
c l o u d s e c u r i t y , a n d o p e n many native and third-party
approach of using security point integrations as well as meaningful
solutions that aren't natively a r c h i t e c t u r e s a r e o t h e r a u t o m a t i o n a n d v a l u a b l e
integrated do not make sense fundamental building blocks of a intelligence for everything to come
anymore. mesh design. together.

March 2022