2021 is headed for the history books, and we now turn our attention towards the new year. The last year—well to be more precise, the last two years—have brought about significant changes in network environments as digital transformation initiatives, cloud computing adoption, edge computing and hybrid work models impact how networks are acquired, deployed, and managed. The rate of change has only been matched by the pace of innovation as network technologies rapidly evolve to deliver enhanced functionality and secure experiences. As a result, there are a number of key technologies and architectures to follow in 2022.
Cybersecurity & Networking
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This brief looks at some the key trends and events that will shape network security technologies, suppliers, and customers in 2022.
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Cybersecurity megatrends, including zero trust, XDR, a pandemic-induced increase in remote workers, and the move to public cloud, are influencing the way organizations think about endpoint security. These megatrends add new requirements for endpoint security, while necessitating new levels of integration with other core security controls. Additionally, mobile and IoT are driving massive growth in the number and diversity of devices that must be protected. To better secure their growing attack surface, IT and security teams are thinking differently about endpoint security platforms, what they must include, and how they fit into the broader security stack.
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ESG conducted a comprehensive online survey of cybersecurity and IT/information security professionals from private- and public-sector organizations in North America (United States and Canada) between June 2, 2021 and June 21, 2021. To qualify for this survey, respondents were required to be cybersecurity and IT/information security professionals familiar with their organization’s network security tools and processes and responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and/or operating corporate network security controls across public cloud infrastructure and on-premises data centers/private cloud.
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on network security tools and strategies used to protect both public cloud environments and on-premises data centers, as more organizations look to take a more hybrid approach to IT.
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Attackers increasingly use encrypted traffic to mask their activity. While most agree that better visibility into this traffic would improve their organization’s security posture, many continue to forgo decryption for a variety of reasons. While tools that can detect threats in encrypted traffic remain fairly new, they represent an attractive approach to improve visibility into encrypted threats without sacrificing privacy or performance.
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ESG conducted a comprehensive online survey of cybersecurity, networking, and IT professionals from private- and public-sector organizations in North America (United States and Canada) and Western Europe (UK, France, and Germany) between June 29, 2021 and July 20, 2021. To qualify for this survey, respondents were required to be cybersecurity, networking, and IT professionals involved with networking and security technology and processes and with some level of familiarity with SASE.
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on understanding the trigger points that are influencing SASE initiatives and determining the extent to which specific technologies and products are being included in support of SASE now and how that is expected to change.
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Nearly two-thirds of respondents to the 2022 Technology Spending Intentions Survey from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), a division of TechTarget, plan to increase spending on cloud application security in the next year. Startups are scoring record-setting funding rounds and valuations, while established vendors are announcing acquisitions and integrations to secure cloud applications throughout the software development lifecycle. -
Microsegmentation offers a dynamic and scalable approach to segmenting IT networks that helps enable zero trust security. Despite its potential value, it isn’t widely used now. To gain broader adoption, microsegmentation tools must be easy to deploy in both cloud and on-premises environments and provide several key features, including a focus on segmentation at the application and workload level.
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ESG conducted a comprehensive online survey of IT professionals from private- and public-sector organizations in North America (United States and Canada) between June 17, 2021 and June 25, 2021. To qualify for this survey, respondents were required to be cybersecurity and IT professionals responsible for evaluating, purchasing, and managing endpoint security technology products and services.
This Complete Survey Results presentation focuses on endpoint security and how cybersecurity megatrends, including zero trust, XDR, a pandemic-induced increase in remote workers, and the move to public cloud, are influencing how organizations think about these solutions.
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I’ve always made it a priority to choose roles where I can make the biggest impact, and where I can learn and grow. It hasn’t been a clear path (as Sheryl Sandberg would say, it’s not a ladder, it’s a jungle gym), but I can confidently say it’s led me to fulfilling roles.In this blog post, I’ll share a bit about my background, and then describe why I’m thrilled to join ESG to cover cloud-native and application security – a rapidly evolving and dynamic space. (more…)
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Today’s distributed networking environments have IT organizations scrambling to address new challenges, according to recent Enterprise Strategy Group research. But fresh technologies and emerging strategies have the potential to bring in benefits if executed well.
See the data behind these trends and more with this infographic, 2021 Network Modernization Trends.
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The broad adoption of public cloud services as a source and repository of business-critical data and the increasingly distributed nature of IT environments generally and workforces specifically are impacting network infrastructure in terms of both requirements and challenges. In addition to assessing how modern, distributed environments are impacting network requirements and subsequent architecture, it is imperative to understand how key initiatives like cloud and automation are driving and shaping network strategies. Against the backdrop of all these changes, what kind of interest are organizations showing in new networking technologies like WiFi 6, 5G, and SONiC?
Nearly two-thirds of respondents to the 
I’ve always made it a priority to choose roles where I can make the biggest impact, and where I can learn and grow. It hasn’t been a clear path (as Sheryl Sandberg would say, it’s not a ladder, it’s a jungle gym), but I can confidently say it’s led me to fulfilling roles.