Organisations adopting 5G, IoT, Cloud, and more 

Huzefa Motiwala, Director - Systems Engineering for India & SAARC, Palo Alto Networks

New products and solutions 

At Palo Alto Networks, we are innovating across our solutions to transform cybersecurity as we know it and empower enterprises with a self-driving SOC. Some of our recent introductions include Prisma Cloud Supply Chain - a platform that provides complete visibility of the software supply chain so potential vulnerabilities can be traced and fixed. Additionally, we added deep inline learning into our PAN-OS Nebula 10.2 which brought in the ability to detect and evade zero-day threats in real-time. We also recently advised the global cybersecurity industry to adopt Zero Trust Network Access 2.0 (ZTNA 2.0) as a successor to ZTNA 1.0 and VPNs which are far more permissive.   

Impact of disruptive technologies in the future of work
Organisations have turned to disruptive technologies like 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud, and more over the past few years to kickstart their digital transformation journeys. This has facilitated tremendous innovation and growth by delivering several benefits like enhanced collaboration, improved efficiency, and more. Making disruptive technologies a part of everyday operations has significantly widened the attack surface and provided cyber adversaries with more dangerous opportunities to orchestrate breaches. 

Adopting working arrangements to flexibly meet business needs
Look beyond VPNs to more resilient approaches, Leverage Cloud-delivered security for scale, agility, and cost effectiveness, deploy a Zero Trust Network Access framework that removes implicit trust from the equation and constantly validates every device and transaction within the network. This also involves rethinking Zero Trust as a whole where we advise our customers to incorporate ZTNA 2.0 principles like continuous review of identity and connection across their domains to stay secure, adopt secure access service edge (SASE) to elevate network security as it converges a diverse range of security solutions into one cloud-native service.