Now in its fifth year, Tufinnovate kicked off this week in the Americas. To introduce the event, Tufin CEO Ruvi Kitov took the audience through the world of access and connectivity and how the pandemic has changed the landscape.
Today’s large enterprises must find a way to not only balance security and agility, but to improve both at the same time. This is no easy task considering most organizations have a hybrid network and use IaaS and PaaS, not to mention the rapid adoption of container-based development practices. Corporate networks will continue to grow in complexity, making them unmanageable. That is, without policy management.
That, Ruvi says, is the foundation of Tufin’s strategy and what guides the company’s journey into the future.
By 2024, Tufin will be the Security Policy Platform – a unified suite addressing access policies everywhere: physical networks, SDN, private cloud, public cloud, and all security controls.
Looking specifically at the cloud, most customers have challenges securing access and connectivity in the cloud. These challenges stem from the blurred responsibility among network security and cloud security teams; a plethora of cloud security controls which can be confusing and constantly change with the landscape; and the use of many different cloud platforms and technologies across the environment. One of the most pressing needs – and something Ruvi hears from Tufin customers frequently – is the need for visibility across the entire network.
What are the steps Ruvi is taking to become the Security Policy Platform? The details include a pluggable architecture for wider platform coverage, an extensive marketplace of apps to extend topology and policy insights across security fabric, and a new Tufin Orchestration Suite platform coming soon, enabling the shift to SaaS, and the ability to scale out to the largest networks on earth.
Managing the Complexity by Tufin CTO & Co-Founder Reuven Harrison
Reuven began his session discussing the ways that Covid impacted the security industry. Organizations needed to allow their employees to connect remotely, resulting in a greater attack surface and more security challenges. People were connecting at a lower level of trust, and attackers took notice.
Reuven outlined the major security issues that made headlines during the pandemic, including a boom in spear-phishing attacks, ransomware, software supply chain attacks, and attacks in the cloud. Because most malware is delivered via email and depends on a human response (clicking on a malicious link) in order to work, the increase in these attacks really highlights the need to improve the human factor of security.
Next, Reuven looked at the major trends in the market including cloud and Zero Trust. Today, there are two types of companies: those that are born in the cloud and those that are migrating to the cloud. Investment in the cloud continues to grow, and most organizations have adopted containers and are migrating workloads in their multi-cloud environments. Reuven also pointed out that he has seen more usage in advanced cloud services as a way to sharpen a company’s competitive edge.
Reuven then segued into a discussion around security policy management and highlighted the problems that Tufin users more commonly face, including network complexity and policy management processes and controls.
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