Why Cybersecurity Mesh is Trending Among UAE Enterprises?

In the post-pandemic business environment, remote working with a hybrid model remains a popular option. Despite the mode’s prevalence, not everyone is adequately prepared for the rise in sophisticated cyberattacks, and significant efforts are required to raise cybersecurity awareness. Adopting a cybersecurity mesh architecture is a great way to overcome common security challenges brought on by the pandemic as businesses look to improve their capacity and capabilities for remote work.

According to Gartner, by 2025, the cybersecurity mesh architecture will support more than half of all digital access control requests. Continue reading to discover how to successfully implement a cybersecurity mesh architecture and fortify your organization against cyberattacks in the post-COVID world.

Cybersecurity Challenges in the Post-pandemic

When the pandemic first hit, governments-imposed restrictions, resulting in a sudden shift to a work-from-home model for most corporations. Although this model enabled business continuity by having employees contribute to organizational goals and enterprises, the cybersecurity challenges it introduced were far too numerous. Here are a few examples:

Evolving Nature of Cyberattacks: The nature of cyberattacks and threats changed as cutting-edge work-from-home tools and technology started to emerge. Businesses moving from office-based work models to remote, anyplace work models have seen an increase in cyberattacks, including phishing and fraudulent websites, unauthorized access, and DDoS attacks.

Work From Home Security Gaps is Expanding: The unexpected and widespread adoption of the work-from-home model resulted in the development and deployment of subpar security policies that were inconsistently implemented. Because businesses had to immediately transition their employees to this new model, little thought was given to the security and privacy aspects of the business.

The main goal was to ensure that employees could work comfortably from home, so fewer technical controls were implemented. As employees began to use personal computing infrastructure to access corporate tools and data, the impact of insufficiently updated, patched, and protected systems and processes became apparent.

Aligning New Objectives with Security Requirements: As remote working became the norm globally, attackers saw this as an opportunity to up their game. For organizations to prevent such attacks, organizations needed to align their redesigned goals with new security imperatives and avoid or minimize the exploitation of employees who worked from home with far less supervision and control.

The Next Wave of Regulation- Keeping Up: With cybercriminals recognising that existing data security measures were insufficient to prevent successful cyberattacks, organizations were forced to keep up with the next wave of regulatory and compliance requirements imposed by governments and other authorities.

What Can a Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture Do?

The cybersecurity mesh architecture is emerging as the most practical approach to ensure secure access to and use of enterprise applications from personal devices and unsecured networks as the pandemic Extends the physical and logical security perimeters of cyber assets.

With enterprises continuing to employ geographically dispersed workers, this architecture will allow organizations to define security parameters around devices and identities, paving the way for dependable, flexible, and scalable cybersecurity controls.

Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture

Creates a Modular Security Strategy: An IT security infrastructure is designed and implemented using a cybersecurity mesh, which divides the physical perimeter of the network into smaller, distinct perimeters around each device or access point. This allows for a modular and more responsive security architecture that protects physically dissimilar network access points.

Allows a More Responsive Architecture: A cybersecurity mesh enables protection to be extended across all those assets, even those that are dispersed over multiple sites and resources outside the traditional business perimeter. Cybersecurity Mesh provides the path for more responsive security and enables employees to work safely and securely from anywhere, at any time, by letting enterprises safeguard each and every device, asset, and network.

Provides centralized policy orchestration: Because the cybersecurity mesh allows security to revolve around endpoints and identity rather than traditional physical and logical boundaries, it ensures that only the people who are supposed to have direct exposure to information on the network. By centralizing policy orchestration for all employees, the same rules for information access have been applied regardless of where the information or resources reside, who attempts to access them, or from where.

Distributes Policy Execution: A cybersecurity mesh architecture not only centralises policy orchestration but also distributes policy enforcement. By making enterprise security infrastructure agile enough to cover resources working on the organization’s IP, such decoupling of policy decisions and enforcement allows for easier access to assets while ensuring security remains at the required level at all times.

Tips for Adopting Cybersecurity Mesh

Adopting a cybersecurity mesh architecture in the post-Pandemic world is an effective way to ensure the security of assets and endpoints against sophisticated and modern cyberattacks. Here are some pointers to consider if you want to use the architecture to improve your security posture:

Begin with a Zero-Trust Attitude: A cybersecurity mesh architecture is a vital component of a zero-trust environment. As a result, the first step toward successful implementation is to adopt a zero-trust attitude. Such an approach not only aids in real-time threat detection and response, but is also adaptable to emerging threats and changing needs, ensuring all data, systems, and equipment are securely accessed regardless of location.

Accept Microservices: Microservices is another best practice for ensuring your cybersecurity mesh is fully integrated into your business. Microservices can assist engineering teams in implementing the mesh from the planning stage onward, ensuring that the necessary steps are taken to mitigate existing and imminent threats. Microservices can help keep track of differentiated levels of access to different parts of a given network and prevent hackers from exploiting a single node’s weakness across the broader network by ensuring each node has its own security controls.

Allow Total Cybersecurity Reconfiguration: Enabling total cybersecurity reconfiguration is also a great way to ensure the success of your cybersecurity mesh architecture. Instead of constructing password-protected perimeters to allow devices access to a network, such reconfiguration allows you to integrate security early in the process rather than as an afterthought. By shifting security to the left, you can ensure a more flexible and viable security deployment across your dispersed workforce.

Invest in Trained Security Professionals: If you want to see immediate results from your cybersecurity mesh architecture, you should also invest in well-trained security professionals. Such professionals can bring years of industry knowledge and domain experience, and implement a mesh architecture that perfectly fits the needs and goals of your business, allowing you to focus on growing your business rather than worrying about the security and privacy challenges of your remote workforce.

Cybersecurity threats, which have always been prevalent, have increased as a result of the gaps created by the pandemic outbreak. Adopting a cybersecurity mesh architecture is an excellent way to address the security challenges posed by the pandemic; by taking a modular security approach, centralizing policy orchestration, and distributing policy enforcement, a cybersecurity mesh architecture can ensure the safety and security of enterprise data, especially in today’s hybrid work environment.

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