Cybersecurity Roundup: McAfee, Mimecast, SolarWinds, Palo Alto Networks
… properly integrated with QRadar. Our philosophy is, as long as we can publish and subscribe into and out of that environment, it’s in our mutual best interest to do so. So what we found is by collaborating in that effort to have it be bilateral in nature, it does result in better security outcomes.
CF: How can this help alleviate the ongoing cybersecurity talent shortage?
DL: It definitely can, especially with respect to automation and orchestration. So anything that can be automated or orchestrated reduces the time it takes to address arguably an indicator of compromise (IoC). So if we can help our customers embrace those sorts of solutions in the context of McAfee products, we can help them to a certain extent address that issue, which is profound and getting worse.
CF: A year from now, what do you want to see in terms of integrations, partnerships?
DL: I think our perspective, what I would like to see a year from now, is broader, deeper adoption of our cloud solutions. So cloud solutions are becoming increasingly pervasive; most of our customers are adopting hybrid cloud environments. They aren’t necessarily going private or public exclusively, and I think the envisioned themes that we’ve reinforced and that we’ve been actually delivering consistently over the past two years will establish that foundation we can build upon. So a year from now, I’d like to see a broader and deeper adoption of our MVision solutions within the context of our partnerships, which again help us to exploit the benefits of a cloud-based environment on behalf of our customers. That would be the most significant benefit.
CF: What could be holding back adoption?
DL: One of the most interesting things about looking at the adoption of primarily public cloud-based solutions is the level of penetration into that addressable market. Despite the rapid growth rates we’re seeing, it’s actually remarkably small. There’s still immense market opportunity for McAfee and other companies to begin to address. I think one of the things that’s holding customers back periodically is they’re concerned that being in the cloud is less secure as opposed to being more secure, when in reality is really is more secure than being less secure. There are certain obstacles that need to be overcome to give customers that elevated sense that their security is actually enhanced by migrating in that direction. And vendors like us are taking steps to protect the data that is in the public cloud environment on behalf of our customers, and Amazon‘s protecting the infrastructure. So by collaborating with [Amazon], we can help to address those objections that certain customers may have as they migrate in that direction more effectively. There’s always going to be a certain element of companies that are reluctant to move ultrasensitive material in that direction perhaps for regulatory purposes, for example, but we think that combining those efforts …
This is what companies say when they don’t have a prevention first philosophy or the platform to enable prevention across the entire attack lifecycle.