pPrecautions for the office
Returning to the office has more than just
physical implications – Richard Cassidy,
Senior Director Security Strategy at
Exabeam, encourages organisations to
prioritise their security too. “As we plan
for a new normal, we need to consider
how we can better support our security
teams and automate as much of the
more time-intensive and mundane tasks
as possible. But we also need to rethink
Security Operations Centre (SOC) practices
– the attack surface is far greater now and
IoT security is a bigger risk vector than
ever before. The home office is the new
corporate cubicle, and security teams will
need to detect anomalies from home
networks, users and devices.
“Key to this is a foundation of behavioural
analytics that can help detect attacks and
automate incident response. This frees up
security teams enormously by using existing
datasets to detect anomalies across the
entire estate and monitor critical assets to
find early signs of suspicious activity.”
“While the COVID-19 pandemic has put
many businesses into survival mode, it has
also accelerated a range of – particularly
digital – workplace trends,” said Liam
Butler, Area Vice President at SumTotal. “As
restrictions on society continue to be lifted
and the business community takes stock
of these changes, we are realising they
have gone far beyond simply absorbing
the economic impact. For many industries
and business areas, the measures have
opened up a more sustainable, effective and
collaborative working environment.
“Businesses will be engaging with
customers, employees and other businesses
in very different ways, placing more
emphasis on genuine human connection
in the absence of physical travel and inperson
engagement. The question for every
business now is how do we foster that trust
and community spirit – between colleagues,
managers, customers and suppliers – in a
more dispersed, digital and fundamentally
different world.”
Rich Pugh, Chief Data Scientist and Co-
Founder of Mango Solutions, identifies
how data analytics can help organisations
increase agility and velocity. “According to a
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Strategy at Exabeam
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AS WE PLAN FOR
A NEW NORMAL,
WE NEED TO
CONSIDER HOW
WE CAN BETTER
SUPPORT OUR
SECURITY TEAMS
AND AUTOMATE
AS MUCH OF
THE MORE TIME-
INTENSIVE AND
MUNDANE TASKS
AS POSSIBLE.
recent survey of 300 analytics professionals,
conducted by Burtch Works and the
International Institute for Analytics, 43%
of respondents stated that analytics is at
the front of their activities helping their
organisations make major decisions in
response to the COVID-19 crisis.
“If different departments have embedded
analysis teams, supported by off-the-shelf
or customised tools, and they can model
the outcome of multiple situations at
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