Protect data, protect your people

Ozgur Danisman, Director Sales Engineering, Emerging Market at Forcepoint, on the steps organisations should take to secure their work

What is the importance of cybersecurity for an organisation considering remote workplace environment?
More employees working remote most likely means an increased reliance on cloud services and applications. Modern data protection strategies focus on supporting users where they are. That means devising a plan that protects data on premises and in the cloud; and one that protects data being accessed from multiple hardware devices and a host of new cloud applications. The best part of Forcepoint's approach in providing this risk protection mechanism to organisations is a converged security platform with a unified management that allows organisations to enforce security capabilities from network, all the way to data based on the risk profile of their users.
What are the emerging technologies that organisations are implementing and how can Forcepoint solutions be effective in maintaining a safe ecosystem?

It's really a convergence of three things coming together: cloud security, data protection and behavioural analytics, all being delivered in a unified way from the cloud. Moving forward requires a change in how we deliver network and cloud security as an industry. Gartner's Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is an architecture that aims to do just that. It's an approach that promises direct-to-app connectivity and security for cloud-first and hybrid enterprises. At Forcepoint, we understand the transformation our customers are currently facing. Getting to a cloud-based security reality is a journey. And it's one we're committed to helping them make.
What's the biggest challenge organisations face when it comes to securing their information system in a remote workforce environment and how can this gap be addressed?

With more employees working remotely, some channels such as cloud storage, cloud SaaS (including video conferencing apps), chat/IM or other collaboration tools will drive more activity while others may stay the same (like email) or perhaps see reduced activity (like printers or USBs). Unified policies should be implemented over every channel including on-premises and cloud to allow organisations deploy once and leverage across all channels.

Employees performing tasks remotely, like sharing customer credit card numbers or other sensitive/confidential data over email or other channels, can be blocked by using DLP policies. These can be low and slow data theft attempts where a user does not send all the sensitive data at once but instead tries to sneak under that radar. The benefit of the Forcepoint approach lies in providing the DLP capabilities for both on premises as well as DLP as a Service for cloud applications under a unified management platform.
What can delegates expect from Forcepoint at the Remote Workforce Summit?

At the Remote Workforce Summit, we will review these strategies to show how organisations can scale their security strategy for the protection of people and data wherever work happens.
 

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