Podcast: The global pandemic is forcing rapid cloud migration and an increased need for partners to deploy agentless security solutions

Sanjay Raja Due to the global pandemic, companies are supporting a drastic increase in remote employees. This has forced an explosion of mobile devices that increasingly connect to applications and infrastructure in the cloud instead of the traditional data center. IT teams are straining to evolve their overall infrastructure, management, and security to keep up with these changes. Additionally, cloud security expertise is especially lacking, causing many organizations to look to partners for help in implementing new platforms and better security practices. While working to maintain productivity, organizations are working with service providers and other partners to help them implement easily scalable and purpose-built cloud security solutions. These capabilities are critical to supporting customer requirements and will set some organizations apart when it comes to crisis response. Security must be a priority as threat actors target the expanded attack surface with the explosion of remote workers and the move to the cloud. Assessing work-from-home resources and cloud infrastructure for risks and threats is the first step in preventing cyber criminals from executing successful campaigns that exploit vulnerable systems. As customers are relying on partners to help them, that last thing they need are re-purposed on-premise solutions that are difficult to scale and not really built for rapid cloud migration. In determining asset risk, most vulnerability management solutions are not built specifically for cloud environments and often require yet another agent to install and manage. Current threat monitoring solutions also require an agent, but are incapable of detecting malware, like ransomware, that uses dwell time to remain hidden from security teams. Sanjay Raja of Digital Defense, Inc, a provider of next generation SaaS vulnerability management and threat assessment solutions, will discuss the increased need for agentless solutions in a time when businesses are dealing with a broadening attack surface, while making extreme changes to how they operate. Visit www.digitaldefense.com for more information.