“Telecommuting
continues to be the norm for many businesses, including those in the broadcast,
media and entertainment industries. The collaborative nature of the complex workflow
at these companies can be a challenge to manage remotely” said Sean Duca, Vice
President, Regional Chief Security Officer – Asia Pacific & Japan, Palo
Alto Networks.
“For example, creatives often have to access large files in the collaboration process, but without enhanced measures in place to support large upload and download capacities from the cloud, they may face difficulties in gaining safe, fast and secure access to the assets required.
According
to Palo Alto Networks, enterprises are indeed challenged to secure users,
applications and data that are now everywhere, but current cloud-delivered
security offerings provide limited application coverage and inadequate
protection.
Thus, Palo
Alto Networks has launched Prisma Access 2.0, a cloud-delivered security platform, to protect all application traffic while ensuring high
performance and an optimised user experience. The 2.0 version introduces new
features, including self-healing infrastructure, machine learning-powered
security to help prevent attacks in real time, as well as cloud secure web
gateway capabilities, and a reimagined cloud management experience.
Key
performance, security and management enhancements for Prisma Access 2.0
include:
- A new
cloud management experience - Autonomous
Digital Experience Management (DEM) that automatically remediates network
problems - Machine
learning to prevent unknown, zero-day attacks in real time and to make
automated security policy recommendations - New
cloud secure web gateway (SWG) capability - Support
for third-party security and infrastructure services to be easily integrated
Eric
Parizo, a principal analyst at Omdia, said: “While it was quite unexpected,
2020 was the year that remote work became the norm for millions around the
world. Even with the optimism surrounding COVID-19 vaccines in 2021, it is
clear remote work is here to stay — and the cloud is how they will get there,”
“The
organisations that succeed will be those that not only keep their data safe
from cyberattacks, but also ensure the digital experience for their remote
workers is smooth and reliable.
“Omdia
believes cloud-delivered security approaches like Prisma Access by Palo Alto
Networks will become the predominant architectural model to secure and enable
the future of work moving forward.”