INTERVIEW / CHECK POINT
SECURING THE CLOUD ANITA JOSEPH CAUGHT UP WITH RAM NARAYANAN, COUNTRY MANAGER, CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES, MIDDLE EAST, TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT CLOUD SECURITY.
Ram Narayanan, Country Manager, Check Point Software Technologies, Middle East 30
JULY 2021
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hat are some of the security risks of cloud computing? What would you say is the biggest threat faced by businesses in the region. Cloud computing security is an organization’s approach to protecting the cloud-based resources. This includes both security solutions deployed to protect the organization’s cloud deployment and the policies and procedures put in place to define how cloud-based systems and data are protected. However, cloudbased environments differ from the onpremises ecosystems that organizations are accustomed to protecting. These differences create various cloud security challenges and threats such as misconfiguration of the cloud platform followed by unauthorised cloud access, insecure interfaces and hijacking of accounts. We are now experiencing the 5th generation of cyberattacks: large scale, multi-vector, mega attacks targeting businesses, individuals, and countries. Businesses are trying to protect their IT environments against current attacks with traditional security technologies. They are stuck in the world of 2nd and 3rd generation security, which only protects against viruses, application attacks, and payload delivery. Although there is a rise in cyber attacks in general such as phishing attacks, spear phishing, man in the middle (MitM) attacks, denial of service or distributed denial of service (DDoS), ransomware is emerging as one of the biggest threats to enterprise cybersecurity. Tell us more about Check Point Software Cloud Security. How is it different from the other cloud security offerings in the market? Check Point Software Technologies offers broad and deep multi-layer security to protect customers at all stages of their cloud journey. Through the unified platform of Check Point CloudGuard we offer consolidated security, threat prevention and posture management across all public,
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