Digital Acceleration Requires Converged Security and Networking
Today’s businesses are under pressure to establish and maintain market differentiation by improving processes faster than competitors and delivering higher efficiency, while increasing stakeholder value. Digital acceleration is necessary to achieve these objectives. It enables organizations to roll out new products and services at the speed business requires, while delivering the optimal experience for all types of users.
For digital acceleration to succeed, however, networks must do more than they did in the past—often much more than they were originally designed to do. Pushing networks beyond their limits generally results in increased risk of network downtime and security breaches.
That’s why a new approach is needed that converges networking and security into a single solution. Secure networking minimizes risk while enabling the key functions that digital acceleration requires in order to meet business goals.
Digital acceleration brings many benefits, but it also negatively impacts the network, which is being asked to take on more roles than ever before. Organizations add solutions to improve business agility, but those applications are not all structured the same way or hosted in the same location.
- They may be available only to those on the corporate network or available to everyone.
- They may be hosted in a public or private cloud, or on-premises.
This variance creates complexity for IT, and an increased risk of mis-applying permissions or security settings for these applications.
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