Mon. Dec 23rd, 2024
Securing Ai Powered Network Transformation: A Guide For Executives

Complexity is the bane of all network security teams, and it’s been proven that the more dashboards, screens, and manual integrations you juggle, the slower your response time becomes. It doesn’t have to be complicated, disjointed, or require any finesse in the art of juggling.

Networks must enable collaboration with customers, suppliers, and employees and include comprehensive security solutions with a consistent experience across the board. Employees can be anywhere: in the office, on the go, or working from home. The network security solutions that so many people use are unnecessarily complex.

The time for change was yesterday and the opportunity for change is today. Advances have been made in artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI capabilities. This means that today, enterprises that embrace transformation and adopt platformization can see their entire infrastructure through a single pane of glass and respond to security incidents in near real-time to address challenges. of today’s environment.

Today, criminal organizations can launch exploits faster than ever before. The ability to make exploits work at machine speed means that network security must also work at machine speed. This puts tremendous pressure on the entire network security stack to identify, isolate, and remediate incidents as they occur. Now we need to measure the resolution in minutes or seconds.

Traditionally, threats have been analyzed in a siled manner. That is, the exploit was captured in a protected environment (sandbox), analyzed, and a solution was created and distributed. It’s not the speed of the machine.

It is clear that change is needed to take advantage of the advances made by AI to increase visibility and accelerate threat identification. By sending user traffic through your network security infrastructure, you can apply AI and machine learning (ML) to the traffic to find and block threats inline.

Platform using AI

An integrated security stack, platform approach brings the knowledge gained by Palo Alto Networks’ global footprint to the forefront. This avoids the myopic vision of point solution products that the industry has historically embraced.

The opportunities presented by AI are incredible, increasing our ability to understand risks and threats as information becomes part of the corpus. This corpus enables us to implement generative AI in powerful ways across our product suite. Doing so not only improves the accuracy of threat identification, but also facilitates ease of use and understanding with a single screen view.

Natural language processing provided by AI/ML has been demonstrated to accelerate prospective risk identification and remediation. Information security teams no longer need to be familiar with only proprietary cybersecurity terminology, but can also ask questions along the lines of, “What are the risks and threats that exist?” or “What is the recommended remediation method?” or “What processes need to be adjusted?” and ask them to provide the answers. It is important to emphasize that with an integrated security stack, implementations can be ordered once and implemented across the entire infrastructure to address all affected areas. The power of engaging natural language and implementing generative AI in the right way can help visualize the root cause and the path to remediation, the desired destination.

However, not all security platforms are created equal. Platforms must be innovative, comprehensive, integrated, and capable of operating in real-time. These four components are key to the platform approach taken by Palo Alto Networks.

revolutionary change

In summary, today is a time of transformation, with an increased understanding of the power of AI and the ability to respond quickly and clearly to known and unknown threats. Enables the ability to segment incidents and problems, reducing escalation for information technology teams.

Leaders don’t shy away from innovation. In fact, they embrace it because it provides a competitive advantage and an opportunity to leapfrog and disrupt their field. Our adversaries are also innovative, and the reduction in the time from compromise to exploitation from his 44 days to hours provides ample evidence of their level of innovation. But we don’t operate in a vacuum, and Palo Alto Networks is blessed with visibility that allows us to strategically and comprehensively adopt AI into our solutions.

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