By Edd K. Usman
SINGAPORE — As the threat landscape in cyberspace continues to get worse, an executive of Intel Security has proposed for tighter collaboration and partnership between security vendors and governments.
David Allott, cyber defense director for Intel Security, noted that since online threats are being launched at a very fast pace these days, the security industry and the community of nations should also come together and work quick enough to keep up — if not faster — with the attackers.
Allott, along with members of the regional IT media, were at the 25th GovernmentWare Conference and Exhibition at Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre. The GovWare forum is a part of the inaugural Singapore International Cyber Week (SICW), which attracted over 3,000 delegates from more than 30 countries.
Singaporean prime minister Lee Hsien Loong gave the keynote speech and later on launched his country’s Cyber Security Strategy. The framework has four pillars — building a resilient infrastructure; creating a safer cyberspace; developing a vibrant and cyber security ecosystem; and, strengthening international partnerships.
In an interview, Allott emphasized the need for organizations to think beyond the box when responding to various kinds of threats.
“The threat landscape continues to change faster than we can keep up with. Organizations need to be thinking differently. They need to be thinking about protection, detection, and correction and taking a platform approach that can bring efficiencies and agility into an organizations skill,” the exec said.
In the case of Intel Security, Allot explained their solutions were created to treat threat defense as a lifecycle. “We have three stages: protect, detect, and correct,” he said.
?When you think about protect, you think about traditional things like anti-virus. When you move into detection, you think about DLP or data loss protection technologies. You are also looking at SIM technologies, the sort of tools that allow you to pool together sharing of intelligence and being able to understand the thing,” he said.
Moving into correct, he said Intel Security has EDR or end-point detection response technologies that will allow corrective hunt for threats and re-mediation at the end-points. “Our portfolio covers all those three aspects,” Allot assured.
The executive revealed that Intel Security has a professional services team who can and are able to partner with organizations and support them in defining and understanding their security objectives.
When deploying complex solutions like data loss protection, Allott said Intel Security can help and assure organizations get it right at the outset.
“Traditionally, we focus on protection and we spend a lot of money on protection tools and technology. [But] we need to be thinking around detection and also how can we bring speed and agility into the re-mediation piece of the cycle,” he said.
For new business organizations, he said it is important for them to recognize that protection alone is not sufficient.
“We are facing a shortage of cyber skills, and so you need to use technology to support bridging that gap by introducing autonomy and workflow automation into your organization,” Allott said.
