Data’s role as a transformational business asset continues to grow. Thanks to increasing investments in application development; modern DevOps practices; and heightened business intelligence, analytics, and machine learning demands, nearly all businesses are accelerating data creation and usage. They are also scaling the number of locations that leverage data. This proliferation of data combined with mounting pressure to accelerate operations has led to an increase in the complexity of both IT infrastructure and IT operations.
Such factors put organizations and their infrastructures at great risk of experiencing malicious attacks, human error, and negligent behavior. Unfortunately, legacy strategies cannot adequately ensure that business operations will continue during and after these types of incidents. Companies can try to weave together capabilities in an attempt to prevent attacks and other breaches, but functional gaps, poor integration, and management complexity make meeting security objectives time-consuming and difficult.