NETWORK SECURITY and say , ‘ Right , we ' re going to do a considerable consolidation for you , let ' s say , 20 different point products down to two or three ’. Using our portfolio , that would have a massive impact in a positive way to that customer ’ s security , posture , simplification , ease of management .”
Croker adds : “ There is no mythical nirvana of a single pane of glass , but we can provide a single management for our solutions – just not for the other 110 that you ' ve got in your network !”
Security posture needs tightening According to Croker , “ the governance risk and compliance teams need a bigger voice around what ' s going on in some of these organisations ”.
“ While a CIO may have views on security posture , the GRC need to look at the risk of having way too many solutions in a business around security , because the more complexity that you bring into that business , and into that architecture and your security posture , the bigger the likelihood is that there ' s going to be a mistake made . Especially when you have overworked human intervention . These are the little chinks in the armour that the adversaries will exploit for sure . Tightening up that security posture is what is needed .”
“ The governance risk and compliance teams need a bigger voice around what ' s going on in some of these organisations ”
SIMON CROCKER
SENIOR DIRECTOR FOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING , PALO ALTO NETWORKS , UK & I
company does know where to play and how to strengthen consolidation around everything from the endpoint and the cloud to the network .
“ We have good collaboration through APIs and automation with other vendors . We are not one of those vendors that want world domination . We work with a whole host of
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