When you think of US States exhibiting cybersecurity leadership, which ones come to mind? For me, I’d place Maryland at the top of the list, followed by CA, MA, VA, GA, and a few others. In my view, these states exhibit good efforts around cybersecurity innovation and public/private partnerships.
Now if you pinned me down and asked me to continue my list, I’m not sure where I’d place North Dakota, a state with a population of 755k. Until recently, I had no knowledge or opinion on the state’s cybersecurity position whatsoever. That changed for me when someone from the office of the CIO in North Dakota read one of my blogs on the cybersecurity skills shortage and reached out to fill me in on the state’s cybersecurity efforts. As it turns out, North Dakota is doing quite a bit.
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What a week. Now that I have had a day to recover, let’s discuss Dell Technologies World. What happened, what was interesting, and what does this mean for the future?
Going into Dell Technologies World, my greatest expectation was hearing a more unified message between VMware and the rest of the Dell Technologies family, especially Dell EMC. That expectation was absolutely met. Pat Gelsinger and Jeff Clarke on stage together announcing the Dell Technologies Cloud Platform was very well received and I would argue is the most united front between these two organizations that we’ve heard to date.
First, let’s clarify what would drive businesses to consider moving cloud on-prem:
Dell Tech World kicked off in Vegas this week, capturing the attention of 15,000 attendees from over 122 different countries.
Dell just announced new data protection solutions at Dell Technologies World 2019. While the event is set in Las Vegas, don’t take it as an invitation to gamble with your data! Our research shows that 57% of organizations state that their tolerance for high-priority application downtime
Microsoft is ultimately in a race to grow its Azure footprint and remain in pole position on the desktop while it is clearly being battered in both markets. Microsoft needs Dell as a partner. Dell can lean in with its experience to help raise customer confidence. These three areas demonstrate where Microsoft is better with Dell:
Threat detection and response is hard and getting harder. According to ESG research, 76% of cybersecurity professionals claim that threat detection and response is more difficult today than it was two years ago, so this situation may only get worse in the future.
With Dell Technologies World coming next week, now is the time to focus on what questions we want Dell to answer. And, what questions should they answer? Yes, we want to see new technology. We expect it at this point. And while I do have some technology questions for Dell Technologies, we also need to focus on the bigger picture, or the Bigger Truth as we say at Enterprise Strategy Group.
According to ESG research, 82% of cybersecurity professionals agree that improving threat detection and response (i.e., mean-time to detect (MTTD), mean-time to respond (MTTR), etc.) is a high priority at their organizations. Furthermore, 77% of cybersecurity professionals surveyed say that business managers are pressuring the cybersecurity team to improve threat detection and response.