Technology trends to impact your business

New data optimization techniques to ever growing machine learning and zero trust revolutionizes cybersecurity architecture to protecting the data becomes a need of urgency. To learn how we can use technology to reimagine the workplace, create more human experiences, and bolster equity initiatives are going to be the biggest challenge in the year 2021. This new work infrastructure demands for a more robust and purpose-built security solution with a newer approach to security, such as the Data Security Approach. It keeps data at the centre of all its initiatives, covers enterprise’s SaaS/Cloud application platforms and brings the remote/WFH users under the security infrastructure to prevent intentional/unintentional, internal and external data exploitation while protecting from network threats, keeping us ready for the future.

Secondly, the cloud adoption has skyrocketed, many security postures are still stuck in the past. Extending legacy, on-premises security tools to work in the cloud has proved to be inadequate, leaving cloud architects and DevOps teams without a clear blueprint for securing applications, workloads, and infrastructure. 2020 has forced us through a complete revamp of enterprises’ work infrastructure. From working at a minimum on-premise capacity to complete remote working. As most of the enterprises have rushed the work from home setup and the adoption of cloud infrastructure that increased dependence on SaaS/cloud application, opening a larger challenge in ensuring data security.

Going forward, India does have some cybersecurity systems in place. What the penetration of sensitive US government agencies by hackers shows that such systems might prove to be offering more illusory protection than real security. India must shore up its defences by buying the best protection on offer, in the short term, and by developing indigenous capacity on a war footing.

As the pandemic enforced nearly every business to alter how they operate, technology helped industries to devise strategies and adapt to a changing future. With remote work culture intensifying and massive cloud adoption underway, an unexpected spike in digital services also introduced a host of new security threats. Technology companies which offer advanced digital identity and security solutions also witnessed a surge in demand as deployment increased multi-fold due to the change in circumstances in the last few months. The year 2020 also stimulated the transition to contactless technologies, including the wider acceptance of contactless payments and contactless biometric secured access.

We believe 2021 is going to be the year wherein organizations will invest more in secured tech infrastructures as the contactless technology space gains more traction. As economies progressively reopen, businesses will rapidly adopt touch-free technologies expecting high-throughput, hygienic ways to transact, helping keep both consumers and staff safe. Technology companies are also coming up with solutions that are contactless and at the same time ensuring maximum privacy of users. Contactless biometric solutions such as facial recognition and digital-only banks providing various virtual banking services will gain prominence in a post-pandemic world as the digital transition accelerates in many sectors where the need for identification and transaction security are crucial.

The recent onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has taken this disruption to the next level and is forcing companies to re-think their businesses and business operating models. As business leaders continue to push the frontiers of technology, organizations will be required to address these challenges and build stakeholder trust to rapidly scale their business for the immediate future.

Dr. Deepak Kumar Sahu, Chief editor, VARINDIA