Employing a Zero Trust security strategy is now more critical than ever

Sanjai Gangadharan, Area Vice President -South ASEAN, A10 Networks

Impact of cyber-attacks on the critical infrastructure of companies

The growing threat landscape requires modern defenses to mitigate infiltration from malware, ransomware and other emerging threats. As this new threat environment spans both the digital and physical worlds, employing a Zero Trust security strategy is now more critical than ever. At A10 Networks we have made enhancements to our security and infrastructure solutions to strengthen Zero Trust architectures for digital resiliency.

• Infiltration visibility and protection

• Automated DDoS protection

• Granular operational micro-segmentation

• Advanced user authorization and verification

• Real-time observability and central management

A10’s solutions, as part of a strong Zero Trust architecture, help security teams eliminate unnecessary risk and become more efficient. Default configurations, encrypted traffic, excessive privileges, lack of micro-segmentation and emerging attack vectors lead to exploitation by threat actors and need to be addressed. These A10 solutions are being adopted by our customers in service provider and enterprise markets.

Managing critical events and emergency incidents

Chief security officers (and CIOs, CISOs) are facing rapidly growing cybersecurity challenges. Not only do they have all the traditional responsibilities to take care of such as day-to-day operations safeguarding the corporation’s physical assets, and crisis management, but now all of that has to be done under a cyber security threat environment that’s orders of magnitude more dangerous than ever before. Ransomware has become one of the greatest network security threats organizations have to deal with because it has become that much more complicated. It’s distributed at a high speed via the internet and private networks and uses military-grade encryption. Worse still, today’s threat actors demand multi-million-dollar ransoms, and ransomware is expected to cost businesses around $20 billion this year and more than $265 billion by 2031.

But ransomware is only one of the many threat’s organizations have to deal with. Globally, DDoS attacks have also increased as a result of pandemic-inspired cybercrime. This has proven to be a wake-up call to organizations of all types – schools, higher education, communication service providers, and enterprise. As populations continue to work, play and learn in hybrid environments, secure and reliable connectivity is essential not only for economic survival, but required for access to health services, education and other fundamental needs of society.

The solutions to protect the infrastructure

A10 Networks has seen a dramatic increase in customer needs as they navigate this rapidly changing landscape. In 2021, our aim was to secure our customers’ infrastructures against emerging security threats; hence we introduced new customer-oriented product solutions. A10 Networks continues to work with its customers to help them evaluate the efficacy of their security posture, to secure their multi-cloud and 5G networks and ensure that their business-critical applications are secured and available.

Our DDoS protection solutions protect against the largest DDoS attacks, particularly as new targets are being attacked, like healthcare and government entities in the age of COVID-19, and as attacks are becoming more sophisticated. DDoS protection can help organizations avoid business downtime, lost revenue, and damaged reputation, while also ensuring future protection.