Emerging technology like generative AI is ushering in an era of
innovation for businesses who must evolve their networks to ensure
secure trailblazing
According to research by HPE Aruba Networking (NYSE: HPE), 64%
of IT leaders believe that cybersecurity concerns are negatively
impacting their organization’s willingness to invest in innovative
tech. This is perhaps unsurprising as 91% either consider emerging
tech a danger or admit to having already experienced a breach
because of it. But this comes at a time when IT leaders must be
empowered to embrace innovation such as generative AI to accelerate
business-critical transformation – something 89% say their
organization requires high levels of over the next 12 months to
succeed.
With headlines full of the promise of the latest technologies,
the research, which features responses from 2,100 IT leaders across
21 countries, examined how organizations are currently approaching
the interplay between innovation and risk. The report also sheds
light on the role IT leaders and the network have to play in
facilitating safer innovation.
The rise of innovation
A vast majority (95%) of IT leaders state that digitization is
fundamentally important to unlocking new revenue streams in the
next 12 months. In fact, both IT and the broader business are
pushing to bring in new technologies that can boost innovation in
terms of how the business functions and what it offers. As they
look to increase innovation, organizations are turning to emerging
technology, and are currently using or planning to bring in 5G
(91%), AI and machine learning (ML) solutions (89%), or IoT and
smart sensors (88%).
Despite this push, only 45% of IT leaders describe their
organization as innovative – and worryingly, even less describe it
as secure (44%).
Managing the growing risk
There is also a growing gulf between tech demands and the IT
team’s capability to manage it all – 66% of IT leaders have
concerns about their organization’s ability to keep up with the
latest tech and digital demands, and 55% say their IT teams are
already stretched to capacity.
Combining this rise in technology use with the lack of resource
and broader trends around remote working, hybrid cloud, and
distributed centers of data, organizations are facing greater
exposure than ever.
“Business needs have evolved, and teams are increasingly
deploying new technologies to meet these needs. However, security
measures that can support the rise of emerging tech must evolve
alongside them,” said Scott Calzia, vice president marketing, HPE
Aruba Networking. “For IT teams, this means realizing that AI
networking –– can support their teams in being more efficient,
alleviate laborious admin tasks, and further their security
strategy by delivering built-in protection.”
The role of the network
According to the research, there is growing recognition of the
network’s role in business transformation – and, in particular, of
the link between the network and both security and innovation. In
fact, 64% of IT leaders believe the network can support
cybersecurity effectiveness and 61% believe it can support greater
innovation. And IT leaders are investing accordingly –
organizations are starting to press ahead with network-based
security solutions including, Security Service Edge (SSE) or
similar edge-to-cloud security (89%), policy-based network access
control (88%), and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) security
(87%).
But evidence suggests that they still need help tying these
investments together to realize their benefits – only 47% of IT
leaders believe their current network can deliver or support
flexible enterprise security and even less see its role in
supporting emerging technologies (37%).
Calzia concludes: “While pressure to innovate isn’t going to
ease, IT leaders need to find a secure, streamlined way to overcome
the risk conundrum. This requires a unified SASE (SSE + SD-WAN)
approach to bring together all disparate network technologies and
truly deliver a network capable of supporting safe innovation.
Given the prevalence of hybrid working, a strong network security
foundation that includes using Zero Trust principles is a good
starting point to then guide investments in SASE, SSE, and
NAC.”
Additional resources
To learn more, visit the HPE Aruba Networking website. For
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Facebook, and for the latest technical discussions on mobility and
products, visit the Airheads Community at
community.arubanetworks.com.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global
edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes
by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on
decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way
people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open, and intelligent
technology solutions as a service. With offerings spanning Cloud
Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent
Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience
across all clouds and edges, helping customers develop new business
models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance.
For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.
NOTE TO EDITORS: In February 2023, HPE Aruba Networking
commissioned Sapio Research to conduct a survey of over 2,100 IT
decision makers (ITDMs) across 21 markets [Canada, Mexico, Saudi
Arabia / UAE, Singapore, Sweden, Australia, Indonesia, Italy,
Netherlands, Taiwan, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, UK /
Ireland, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, USA]. These ITDMs
work at companies of 500+ employees, with operations in three or
more markets, and spanning industries from healthcare to education,
manufacturing, and hospitality.
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