{"id":2034304,"date":"2024-10-25T13:18:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T17:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/?p=2034304"},"modified":"2024-10-25T13:20:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T17:20:29","slug":"sonicwall-doubles-down-on-edge-security-with-risk-based-connectivity-and-threat-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/securityboulevard.com\/2024\/10\/sonicwall-doubles-down-on-edge-security-with-risk-based-connectivity-and-threat-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"SonicWall Doubles Down on Edge Security With Risk-Based Connectivity and Threat Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The number of cybersecurity incidents has doubled since the pandemic and its costing organizations exorbitantly heavy tolls in direct and indirect losses, according to the International Monetary Fund of the United Nations. Close to a million companies are getting impacted by targeted cyberattacks each year.<\/p>\n

The hasty implementation of the hybrid work model overnight blurred the lines of the perimeter giving rise to a \u201cborderless network\u201d. This is a tad tricky to keep fenced from external threats as remote users often connect from public networks that are unsafe and open to bad actors. And with today\u2019s volume, traffic is ridiculously hard to monitor and manage. These and other factors make every digital interaction in the distributed landscape a potential risk.<\/p>\n

SonicWall<\/a> saw this coming a long time. \u201cWhat we had started seeing in 2019 is this collection of security tools that were built one on top of the other – which in hindsight looks pretty neat – but once you look at the connectivity from the user to the application, you see that it’s a ball of spaghetti,\u201d said Tarun Desikan, executive vice president. \u201cAfter COVID hit, small businesses to big companies, all started getting hacked using these very tools that they built.\u201d<\/p>\n

A three-decade-old startup, SonicWall is working to stop cyber-gangs from targeting remote users and gaining easy passage into protected digital environments. Its latest rollout, Cloud Secure Edge (CSE), is a Security Service Edge (SSE) solution that delivers \u201crisk-based connectivity and protection\u201d by placing security closer to the edge.<\/p>\n

SonicWall gained recognition in the cybersecurity niche for championing several genre-busting ideas. The company deals with distributed environments where aside from a physical footprint, typically companies have a bevy of workers and contractors operating remotely and at times from the office.<\/p>\n

Desikan predicted, \u201cIf the type of user profile keeps changing and you have more and more remote workers, your operations are going to get really complicated. Managing policies across all these systems will be hard, and your user experience is going to be bad because your users, when they’re in the office, have to do one thing, and when they go home, have to do something else. Worst of all, the security model will break down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides being rife with complex operations and poor levels of user experience, the older security model also has some serious loopholes which opened up wide and deep as the hybrid work model took effect.<\/p>\n

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