myForum Series: 2023

In a work-from-anywhere and multi-cloud world, keeping your organisation safe has become incredibly complex. Adding more and more security vendors and products isn't necessarily solving the problem as attacks are getting more sophisticated.

The industry is realising that customers need fewer but more effective solutions that can be easily integrated into one coherent security architecture.

In this session, our Field CTO in EMEA will share his perspectives on the security solutions landscape and help you navigate the myriad of architectural approaches. He will cover:

- Key trends in the security industry
- Consolidation and evolution through cyber security mesh architectures
- How multi-cloud and work-from-anywhere have transformed the security industry
- What WAAP, CNAPP, SSE, SASE, CSMA, and other trending security acronyms are all about and how they fit together
- How customers can strengthen and simplify their security posture in this new reality

The pace of the adoption of generative AI is set to eclipse nearly every other major technology introduction in the past two decades. As an inherently democratised technology usable by technical and non-technical users alike, security professionals are being challenged to leverage it as a tool – and view it as a threat.

In this session, we will examine the defensive and offensive uses of generative AI, and attempt to predict what the future holds for the cyber security industry as we adjust to the rapidly growing "new normal". You will learn about:

- The emerging threat surface created and embodied by generative AI technologies
- Ways that adversaries use and abuse generative AI, and possible defences
- A simple way to classify AI workloads that you can easily apply
- What the future holds for AI-backed security

The rise of multi-cloud and edge architectures is resulting in applications becoming more distributed and interconnected across different environments. Managing and securing these connections between applications and the associated APIs across different cloud networks is extremely complex.

Multi-cloud networking aims to address and simplify these challenges.

In this session, we will share case studies of how multi-cloud networking has solved critical business problems for our customers:

- Interconnecting applications and securing APIs across private data centres and public clouds
- Connecting cloud-native applications across a set of distributed Kubernetes clusters
- Enriching traditional MPLS- and SD-WAN-based services with multi-cloud networking to simplify and secure application interconnectivity between clouds