A comprehensive approach to cybersecurity

A comprehensive approach to cybersecurity

Ram Narayanan, Country Manager, Check Point Software Technologies Middle East, on the cybersecurity landscape and what has changed in the last year.

What has changed in the cybersecurity landscape in the last one-and-a-half years especially post the pandemic?

It has changed drastically in many ways, Of course, the threat landscape was always there before and after the pandemic, but then it’s just that the focus has changed. Previously, when cyberattacks used to happen, they were more targeted towards enterprise businesses where they could attack those companies and then try and steal their data.  Now, with the work from home scenario, people are working from their personal devices, and connecting from different sources. People are opening up their network, basically poking holes into every protected perimeter, so the target has become the users and the second thing is that, from a business perspective, nothing stopped even during the pandemic. Business didn’t stop. They simply had to get the job done, come what may. But some companies that were a bit behind on the legacy side of things, they found it difficult to move forward