Security leaders debate megatrends at ASSA ABLOY integrator breakfast
April 25, 2024 – Published on SecurityInfoWatch
Security megatrends were the topic of the hour at ASSA ABLOY’s 18th annual Systems Integrator Breakfast at ISC West.
A panel of industry veterans discussed “Navigating Megatrends for Sustainable Growth,” a session dedicated to three forces shaping the future of the security industry: sustainability, cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI).
While many security teams are concerned primarily with defending their perimeter, that perimeter has expanded far beyond the physical in modern times. The businesses of today must maintain a robust cybersecurity posture as attacks increase in both scale and sophistication.
The mass connection of once-everyday devices to the internet has opened the floodgates for threat actors to infiltrate systems using somewhat unorthodox methods. According to Chris Warner, panelist and GuidePoint Security’s Senior Security Consultant, OT Security GRC, over two thirds of operational technology (OT) systems are connected to the internet, creating a huge attack vector.
“The more we connect, the more compromised we can get,” Warner elaborated. “We lose eyes and ears on something and we can’t protect it.”
This hybridization of physical and cybersecurity has long been on the horizon, and efforts to more closely integrate the two have been slowly gaining traction in recent years. But the merge has not been seamless. A wealth of outdated technology hampers teams attempting to make the change, Warner says, with legacy systems causing a significant drag on traffic.
“The right side isn’t talking to the left side,” Warner commented. “Physical and cybersecurity have to work together.”
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