As your customers focus on digital acceleration, you can educate them on the changes they need to make to their security postures. The security solutions that worked in pre-pandemic 2019 are no match for the demands from new network edges as they implement work-from-anywhere (WFA), hybrid cloud solutions, edge computing and other digital transformation initiatives.

Growth is good; however, it can lead to highly distributed networks that don’t provide IT with the visibility and control that they need. Introducing your customers to cloud security solutions will support their digital acceleration initiatives while delivering agility and a better user experience.  

Top Factors for Achieving End-to-End Adaptive Cloud Security
Traditional networks and security solutions were designed to follow your customers’ compute which was previously centered on mainframes and servers in enterprise data centers. What worked then can’t keep up with today’s compute which is distributed across hybrid networks. Your customers’ networks must be application-area and highly adaptive—allowing users to access cloud resources without having to be routed back to central data centers.

Your customers’ security must also secure all network edges and support zero trust principles. It must follow data and applications wherever they are located versus tied to a traditional perimeter that determines access based on whether something or someone is “inside” or “outside” a network perimeter.

The adoption of edge computing has resulted in your customers and service providers deploying more distributed and more localized regional clouds closer to where the end-user or device resides. While edge computing can offer better network performance at a lower cost, it can also impact network security and operations. Providing your customers with solutions such as integrated Secure SD-WAN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) can address these issues.

Benefit of an Adaptive Cloud Security Strategy
An adaptive cloud security strategy enables your customers’ security to follow its application and data wherever its located. It can be adapted to any cloud, deployment and consumption model. This approach also converges security, network and computing—eliminating disparate operational siloes. This provides better IT management and control while delivering a more seamless user experience.

Learn how Fortinet’s adaptive cloud security solutions provide increased visibility and control across cloud infrastructures, enabling secure applications and connectivity from the data center to the cloud.