Learnings from the IDC South Africa CIO Summit 2023 #IDSACIO

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2023 IDSACIO ? 1 (978)-923-0040 ?
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Learnings from the IDC South Africa CIO Summit
2023 IDSACIO by Lalit Shinde aiMSSP, aiSIEM,
aiXDR, Cyber Security Company 0 comments
My colleagues and our partners attended the
annual IDC South Africa CIO Summit 2023 on May
18, 2023 in Johannesburg. We had many great
conversations with our partners and their
customers, a few key themes emerged this year.
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Learnings from the IDC South Africa CIO Summit
2023 IDSACIO
Enterprises are innovating faster than ever
before and the driving thread across all
innovation is digital transformation its no
longer a future initiative or a big picture
strategy its now the norm. Almost every aspect
of society is being pushed forward by digitally
enabled services such as education healthcare,
financial services and the realization that
remote work is here to stay.
Corr-Serve is Seceons authorized distributor in
the Africa IT market. Corr-serve is a South
African business dedicated to offering the best
cybersecurity, threat management, and
application performance management solutions to
our partners for their customers. Mark van Vuuren
is the Corr-Serve Product Director.
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Theme 1 Attack Surface Expansion and the Need to
Modernize As the digital footprint expands, so
does the attack surface for cyber criminals. The
volume of new workloads and the variety of
deployment models they rely on on-premises,
remote offices, remote employees, colocation,
hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud, microservices, and the
edge (IoT,
OT) is making monitoring to
it harder for teams to secure. From observability
and capturing logs and events across the larger
attack
surfaces, the rapid attack surface expansion is
creating more opportunities for successful
cyber attacks. Enterprises, MSPs, MSSPs are all
racing to discover new ways to solve these
security challenges. We see and hear the same
thing from our partners around the world the
attack surface is so large, that complete
defenses are not possible with legacy tools and
legacy processes. The only way to protect and
defend todays organizations and detect future
security breaches and intrusions is with a
modernized approach. We believe that requires
ingesting as many sources of events and logs
from across the larger attack surface and
applying AI/ML to analyze in real time for
vulnerabilities and indicators of compromise.
Its an arms race between the threat actors
using AI/ML, and the vendors that cybersecurity
teams are depending on. The only answer is
AI/ML based real-time, detections from across
the now very large attack
surface.
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Theme 2 Security and IT Automation The summit
stage and the attendees I spoke to also
referenced the growing importance of automation.
Combining the speed of todays business
technology changes, software deployment methods
and new security attacks and vulnerabilities,
its critical that service providers, and IT
pros implement more automation across all aspects
of their business. With IT and cybersecurity,
AIOps, and security event orchestration and
response are increasingly automated. Speakers
from both UiPath and F5 discussed ways to drive
automation into all business processes and with
todays global threats coming at us 24/7 from a
global perspective, automation is the only way
to defend an organization. UiPaths Gregory
Williams even claimed that AI-enabled automation
is a boardroom priority.
Theme 3 The 2.0 Wave of Digital Transformation
Adds AI and ML The final observation I have is
that these two movements attack surface
expansion (due to digital transformation
projects) and automation are driving a new wave
of AI and ML driven changes to cybersecurity
people, process, and technologies. When you
combine the speed of new deployments with
zero-day attacks and increasingly AI-powered
attacks, plus the cybersecurity talent crunch,
the only possible answer is to embed AI and
ML-based protection, detection and response
capabilities into the platforms security teams
use to protect their organizations and clients.
I am super excited that Seceon is perfectly
positioned to support the teams that recognize
this need and their deployments of Seceon aiSIEM
and aiXDR acorss their environments.
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IDSACIO Event Summary I thoroughly enjoyed the
day with our partner Corr-Serve, their customers
and partners, IDC analysts and the community here
in South Africa. The need to transform security
services and security operations centers is
gaining momentum and I believe Seceons platform
is the answer for the teams that need an
efficient and effective platform that leverages
their existing investments and due to our
real-time AI/ML detection and response engines
can be an effective way to scale coverage to the
new attack surfaces.
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Learnings from the IDC South Africa CIO Summit
2023 IDSACIO
I always enjoy this event, and this year the
focus was less digital transformation and more
about the new reality of the need to modernize
cybersecurity people, process, and technologies
to protect and defend all of these new attack
surfaces. The general consensus by the speakers
and attendees was that it can only be
accomplished with automation and AI and ML.
said Mark van Vuuren is the Corr-Serve
To learn more about Seceon aiSIEM and aiXDR and
how your organization and meet the needs of
todays cybersecurity challenges be sure to
schedule a demo with one of our engineers today.
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