Converging networking and security breaks down silos and encourages collaboration across the network

Converging networking and security breaks down silos and encourages collaboration across the network: The convergence of security and networking offers significant opportunities for partners to meet their customers’ demands for performance and protection. RAJESH MAURYA, Regional Vice President, India & SAARC, Fortinet in an interview with VAR India explains why partners should embrace security-driven networking.

 

How can partner secure customers networks that are fragmented and now include new unique edges?

Establishing a flexible and adaptive network that connects in-person and remote workers is challenging. Similarly, managing security in a continuously evolving threat landscape becomes increasingly difficult, especially for organizations using legacy solutions and strategies.

 

Partners can help their customers address these issues by working with them to implement a security-driven networking strategy. Converging networking and security breaks down silos and encourages collaboration across the network. When networking and security are integrated into the IT infrastructure, the organization can take various crucial factors into account, including the network, endpoints and devices, the cloud and applications. Further, security can take key networking functions into account, enabling them to more appropriately adapt configurations, policiesand programs for more consistent protection.

 

Additionally, partners can help customers ensure consistent security and performance spanning from edge to edge with comprehensive, deeply integrated solutions. By converging security and networking security teams can keep pace with shifts between the two, offering comprehensive visibility across the entire IT infrastructure, including hybrid hardware and software deployments...Read More