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Autonomous, segmented and simplified: Building a network adapted to the challenges of the digital age The pandemic has accelerated major digital transformation projects. After 18 months of forced adaptation and lockdowns, all sectors of the economy are now aware of the need to transform themselves: to increase productivity, retain consumers, or retain talent who have adopted teleworking as a way of harmonising their professional and personal lives. BY LAURENT BOUCHOUCHA, VP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT NETWORK SOLUTIONS, ALCATEL-LUCENT ENTERPRISE HOWEVER, even the most mature companies visà-vis the hybridisation of work have been caught up by the new cyber threats that have exploded since the beginning of the health crisis.1 Between the revolution in work, the exponential development of connected objects and the omnichannel processing of information, IT systems departments have a major challenge to meet: how to secure an increasingly complex network infrastructure exposed to the digital age.
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Hybridisation of work: the enemy within Among the big lessons to be learned from working remotely, we must now realise that cyber threats also come from within an organisation. The firewall has always been necessary but never sufficient in terms of protection. It is even less sufficient because of the new mobility of employees and in the face of a hybrid IT network, between physical servers and the cloud. The “Zero Trust” model is becoming the norm for companies, which must consider that everything
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