personnel to oversee all of the aspects of security. In contrast, respondents noted that having a consolidated platform boasts advantages such as streamlined complexity (29 percent), as well as – each hitting about 23 percent of those surveyed – timeto-deployment, effort, reduced budget overrun risk and smoothed training processes. Security Operations After you’ve gotten your allin-one platform up and running, there’s still that voice in the back of your head. Exactly how secure is it? According to Palo Alto, that may actually depend on the coverage you have in clutch areas such as product flexibility, predictability, intelligence and energy and effort conservation. Of those surveyed, the top observed benefits of running such a platform included security policy update times (26 percent); threat analysis completion times (22 percent); incident timeto-response (19 percent); and alert comprehensiveness (17 percent). And those are just the quantifiable advantages. Respondents also listed other benefits that are not so easy to measure, but can also have an immeasurable impact on your ultimate bottom line. These “unquantifiable” positives include security policy standardization / unification, management reporting, reduced risk, lessened human error and staff coverage issues. There are, of course, many other benefits to a consolidated security platform. Whether you’re mulling ways to save time or cost, reduce staff stress, make timeto-value improvements or just cut down on commonly known risks, Palo Alto makes a case for the singular platform. Reduced Human Error Consider, for example, costly “human error” or even intentional maliciousness. By choosing a consolidated platform, you actually relinquish a degree of control over your security infrastructure but gain access to automated features that remove these types of concerns. In turn, a comprehensive, “all-in” system can free your team to focus on other operational aspects and business-critical areas. Upon platform activation, there is little need to track the latest threats as they surface or change, thus making crucial network architecture and data safer. Coverage updates are pushed through, while potential human-caused security holes are either never opened or immediately addressed. Product Coverage Integration Another benefit to the platform approach is coverage uniformity. By turning to a single provider to handle all security aspects, you can know that your assets are integrated and can communicate with one another, seamlessly working in conjunction as part of a unified approach instead of working independently of one another and risking middle-ground exposure. Next-Gen Coverage Then, there’s the cutting-edge technology. Unified security platforms tend to include constantly updated technology to keep pace with the rapid growth of cybercrime, especially with more remote workers than ever. These areas tend to include – but are not limited to – artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and automation. Despite many of the factors outlined here, the decision between multiple security products and one outsourced platform asset isn’t an easy one. For many, ultimately, it comes down to available financial resources, level of control needed, staff limitations and cost demand. Having adequate cybersecurity coverage can be an issue for the best of us. Organizations of virtually any size are forced to address new and emerging threats on an almost daily basis. And for those with a remote workforce of virtually any semblance, the search for an allencompassing solution can be even more complex. Compounding this issue is a widespread shortage in the number of security professionals that are available for hire. Basically, the threats get bigger, the attackers smarter, the costs higher and the resources thinner. Let’s face it: remote organizations need an improved vantage point that lets them better detect, process and address threats, tracking them across multiple potential points of entry. The answer for many has been to adopt a comprehensive platform, essentially outsourcing all cybersecurity needs to a subscription-based services provider. J Percentage of Paid Full Day Worked from Home Source: WFH Research Potential implementation savings based on deploying multiple products from Palo Alto Networks vs. multiple products from multiple vendors Source: Palo Alto Networks Solution complexity and number of integration points Deployment time Risk of time and budget overruns Deployment eort Amount of training 29.0% 23.3% 23.6% 23.3% 22.9% 0 20 40 60 80 100 Apr20 Jul Oct Jan21 Apr Jul Oct Jan22 Apr Jul22 All respondents Respondents who ever worked from home during COVID Current Working Arrangements: Full-time Employees Able to Work From Home 40 50 60 15 REMOTE WORK SOLUTIONS rwsmagazine.com
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