Firms invest in upgrade of cybersecurity infra

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More and more companies in the Philippines are investing in cybersecurity as they realize the need to upgrade existing infrastructure.

A survey of security professionals from 13 markets in Asia-Pacific, including the Philippines, said more than three in 10 of cybersecurity technologies used by companies in Philippines are considered outdated

In the study by Cisco Security Outcomes Study Volume 2, professionals from companies in Philippines shared their approaches to updating and integrating their security architecture, detecting, and responding to threats and staying resilient when disaster strikes.

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Respondents from Philippines also consider their cybersecurity infrastructure complex, with 52 percent respectively highlighting this in the survey.

The good news, though, is that companies in Philippines are addressing this by investing in modern cybersecurity technologies and approaches to address this and improve their security posture. Ninety percent of respondents in Philippines said their company is investing in ‘Zero Trust’ strategy, with 51 percent saying their organization is making steady progress with adopting it and 39 percent saying they are at a mature state of implementing it. In addition, 87 percent respondents said their company is investing in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) architecture, with 46 percent saying they are making good progress with adopting it and 41 percent saying their implementation of the same is at mature levels.

These two approaches are key to building a strong security posture for companies in the modern cloud-first and application-centric world.

SASE combines networking and security functions in the cloud to deliver secure access to applications anywhere users work. Zero-Trust is a simple concept that involves verifying the identity of each user and device every time they access an organization’s network to reduce the security risk.

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