Digital transformation was one significant change brought about by the pandemic. You don’t hear as much about it these days because, at this point, if you’re in an industry that can be significantly impacted by digital transformation, the Rubicon is likely in the rearview mirror. There may be business services and units still in the adoption stages, but the overall competitive landscape now orients toward accelerating digital initiatives.
An Adventure for Good Guys and Bad Guys Alike
Digital acceleration sounds adventuresome—invigorating, even—and in many ways, it is. Your clients, and your MSSP for that matter, have virtually unlimited app and infrastructure avenues to build and optimize better mousetraps.
The rub (there’s always a rub, isn’t there?) is that cyber criminals are on their own journeys of acceleration. The innovation-at-hyperspeed wave we’re experiencing now creates potential points of vulnerability as a byproduct of expanding connected apps, infrastructure and users.
So, on the one hand, you need next-gen connectivity to drive digital acceleration. And on the other, you need security that can lock down everything you need right now and be capable of locking down assets you haven’t even thought of yet. And since productivity and user experience matter, management efficiency, application speed and ease of use are essential success components.
Secure Networking as a Digital Accelerant
Secure networking via a converged networking and secure networking platform can close security gaps amid attack surface and network edge expansions. Local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), 5G connectivity, remote worker business models and cloud environments (public, private and hybrid) contribute to both digital acceleration and hybrid business models.
By the numbers, leveraging secure networking to wrap these exposure points within a unified security fabric can deliver significant business outcomes, including:
- Improved business continuity
- Reduced total cost of ownership
- 65 percent decrease in network disruptions
- 300 percent ROI
- 50 percent increase in productivity of security and network teams
- 60 percent faster branch setup
- Optimized user experience
Learn More
To learn more about how secure networking can help to drive digital acceleration, download this data sheet from Fortinet.