Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 11 | Page 97

/////////////////////////////////////////////////// t cht lk SECURING ACCESS IN A HYBRID IT ENVIRONMENT Maintaining secure access for consumers and enterprises is an essential part of business in this innovative age of technology. We caught up with Pulse Secure’s CEO, Sudhakar Ramakrishna, who goes into more detail about the benefits of using a hybrid IT approach to secure access. P ulse Secure, a leading provider of secure access solutions, offers a portfolio of software-driven secure access solutions that satisfy usability, contextual intelligence and policy orchestration to support data centre and hybrid IT environments. A report carried out by Frost and Sullivan, 2018 Network Access Control (NAC) Market, Global, Forecast to 2022, states that network visibility is critical. Every device on a network is a potential attack or reconnaissance point that must be discovered and secured, and the increasing level of malware and cyberattacks are driving NAC investments. www.intelligentcio.com We spoke to Ramakrishna who lets us know how companies can stay secure while maintaining a hybrid IT approach: Can you give our readers an overview of the services Pulse Secure offers customers and how they can utilise these services? We deliver secure access solutions for people, devices, things and services and in doing so significantly improve productivity, visibility and compliance for our customers. As an example, for our customers that are in the financial sector, compliance is very important and we support that. “ INCONSISTENT POLICIES AND INCONSISTENT USER INFORMATION IS A BIG SOURCE OF SECURITY BREACHES IN ENTERPRISES. INTELLIGENTCIO 97