FeatureThe Boundless Cybersecurity model is designed to navigate hyper-distributed IT where everyone is remote, everyone is mobile, everyone is less secure.
While the Covid-19 crisis has generated a lot of challenges, it has also created opportunities particularly in the technology sector. Communities around the world have moved to remote working and home schooling, while businesses across all industries have been forced to innovate and digitally transform on an unprecedented basis to ensure continuity. SonicWall works with a vast range of organisations, including government, healthcare, retail and universities.
All are in need of radically reimagining their cybersecurity model having quickly pivoted to remote working during the crisis. SonicWall has not seen a single organisation that has not re-engineered their business and their networks. IT will continue to play a critical role in providing accessible, reliable and secure IT systems to deliver positive experiences in unfamiliar contexts.
IT departments were initially focused on making certain their dispersed workforces were connected to the tools and data needed in order to keep business operations moving forward at a time when it seemed that the world had stopped. Once accomplished, IT departments and C-suites realised that those new and countless endpoints must be protected from threat actors that had realised this new business norm could make for a much larger and less secure target.
SonicWall has been working to ensure that businesses have the answers to their security requirements that were instantly needed and can help close the business gap so resources such as time and bandwidth can be allocated elsewhere.
In April 2020, SonicWall introduced the new Boundless Cybersecurity model, designed to help organisations navigate a hyper-distributed IT reality where everyone is remote, everyone is mobile and everyone is less secure.
By knowing the unknown, providing real-time visibility and leveraging breakthrough economics, SonicWall enables businesses to close the cybersecurity business gap and guard against the growing ranks of opportunistic cyber attackers.
By gaining a fuller understanding about where the company finds itself in 2020, it can move as safely and resolutely as possible toward the future, whatever it has in store.
As organisations in the region are forced to review their business continuity plans as a result of the ongoing health crisis, cybercriminals are capitalising on trends that play on human behavior and response to fear. Cybercriminals do their utmost to take advantage of trying times by tricking users into opening dangerous files, through what they consider to be trusted sources.
While SonicWall Capture Labs threat researchers are constantly investigating and analysing all threats, the team has flagged the top cyberattacks that leverage coronavirus and Covid-19 to take advantage of human behavior.
Today, ransomware operators have one guiding principle: The bigger the potential disruption caused by an attack, the bigger the chance of a payday. All through this year, SonicWall has been helping organisations be prepared for an influx of cyberattacks, and are giving participating partners, both regionally and globally, a competitive edge.
SonicWall Secure Mobile Access has seen success as it enables organisations to provide anytime, anywhere and any device access to mission-critical corporate resources. SMA’s granular access control policy engine, context-aware device authorisation, application-level VPN and advanced authentication with single sign-on empowers organisations to quickly and securely protect and enable boundless workforces operating in the new business normal.
