Acreto Iot Security

The Business of Security vs. Security of Business Written by Babak Pasdar, CEO and CTO of Acreto. The security industry has spent a lot of time over the past 30 years thinking of imaginative ways to put lipstick on today's cybersecurity pig. It's like a one hit wonder band who never adapted, playing the same song and putting on the same show over and over, even though their fans, the industry and the zeitgeist as a whole have evolved and transitioned. We are more distributed and mobile than ever. Yet the security industry remains unevolved, putting on the same show – playing their all-time favorites like “On-Device Security” and their mega-hit “Gateway Security”. Gateway security is an especially nuanced piece with broad range. There’s the firewall, intrusion prevention, VPN gateway, the proxy, url and content filters, and the component that binds them – SIEM. And that’s the consolidated version of a lengthier and more complicated original score. Compute has changed and continues to change dramatically in fro