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“Perimeter-based cybersecurity today won’t be sufficient to carry organisations
into the future. In addition, in today’s digital world, data sharing is essential
to the creation of new digital business products such as Web apps and mobile apps,
which integrate customer information, through an application programme interface
(API). However, opening company data up is risky too, which is forcing leaders to
balance the risk and reward of new digital business value, with the cost of creating
properly secured systems.”

Dimension Data launched a cybersecurity e-book which helps organisations to
navigate the complex security and technology landscape, and embrace the paradigm
shift where cybersecurity is truly becoming an enabler of business, lifestyle,
healthcare, and a better society,

“Organisation that do well at securing their data will be more likely to take on
the daring innovations their competitors won’t risk,” explains Gyde who provides
a look at what the landscape looks like now, in the next five years, over the next
10 years.

Here and now

Today’s enterprises are beginning to see the future opportunities of cybersecurity
in the digital world come into focus, but many are still trying to keep their legacy
systems stable and secure.

Just ahead

· As threats become more frequent, more sophisticated, and more dangerous,
organisations begin to struggle with managing cybersecurity on their own. The needs
are too complex to be managed by the general IT department, and there simply
aren’t enough information security professionals to go around.

· In the next two to five years, entirely new ways of storing, sharing, and
using data will require a major shift in how enterprises think about identity,
value, and security.

· It will soon be commonplace for data to move laterally from one
company’s applications and servers to another and back, 100s - even1000s - of
times per user action across a diverse set of network and application environments.
In this environment, perimeter-based cybersecurity isn’t effective, so the data
itself must be secured as it moves.

· Cybersecurity at the user level is evolving towards this as well, with a
shift to tokens, authentication, and single sign-on (SSO).

· To manage risk and security in the near future, companies must focus on
balancing the need for rapid innovation with the cost of modernising and securing
legacy IT systems.

· Increasing cloud adoption will require that all organisations manage
endpoint security, while some new applications will need to secure the data itself
and make it safe from attack.

On the horizon

· Over the next 10 years, and beyond, enterprises will evolve rapidly,
taking full advantage of opportunities for digital innovation, and working together
to secure the clouds of data that have become essential for business and daily
life.

· Agile organisations that have mastered the security of their systems will
have a competitive advantage, and will be able to selectively unlock and extrapolate
data for enormous societal and individual benefit.

· The edges of the organisation will become increasingly less relevant as
significant strategic partnerships form between digitised companies.

· It’s likely that organisations who take the lead in exploring new
digital business models and offerings – autonomous vehicle companies, for example
– will become targets for increasingly skilled cybercriminals. These organisations
will need new, agile strategies for managing and designing secure IT to manage the
risks that come with accelerated innovation and evolution.

Cybersecurity awareness is becoming increasingly important as businesses move into
the digital age. View the cyber awareness video series that was created by Dimension
Data in collaboration with some of its leading security vendor partners, including
Cisco, Intel Security, and Palo Alto Networks.