As a young Air Force officer, I found myself in many situations explaining the capabilities required to operate and defend networks. Generals routinely asked about capabilities – we wrote concepts of operations and doctrine to explain the capabilities and proper ways to employ them for operating and protecting what is now discussed as cyber – modern cybersecurity. Today, after over 20 years of military and commercial experience, cyber continues to become more intelligent, and I still find myself explaining capabilities required to operate and defend cyber.
While our world continues to evolve, operating and protecting cyber will go through transformational pivots. If we allow ourselves to speculate on what the year 2035 might look like, we’ll recognize results of these pivots. In 2035, artificially intelligent (AI) cars will be standard in a global environment that requires granular control and balance to protect lives. Cyber leaders will be educated on cyber technology and capabilities required to both operate and defend the environment.
As cyber leaders, they will have a commanding grasp of some guiding principles, including:
The more I think about protecting AI cars, the more I like cyber leaders of the future. They're going to listen to people that are bold about the capabilities required to operate and defend networks and realize when status-quo technologies need to transition the way of the extinct TRS-80.
The leaders protecting AI cars will quickly realize that making strategic decisions on compliance regulations – many of them dictated by bureaucratic legacy organizations that are pushing paper when they should be innovating – fails to reduce risk or provide security. Those leaders will grade organizational readiness on a daily, hourly, minute or second basis using capabilities required to operate and defend networks irrespective of the technology trends of the day. They will utilize cohesion, agility and flexibility in ways that make geographic location irrelevant when a cyber event or alert happens. They will be students of technology and leadership to employ the following capabilities in some form to operate and defend the AI cars: (no priority order here)
One day I hope to ride with my family in an AI car knowing that an outstanding cyber leader understands what's at stake and uses capabilities to the fullest extent possible when keeping us safe.
We all have to think differently, and that can’t wait. Palo Alto Networks is delivering transformational pivots today through our purpose built Enterprise Security Platform. Our platform reduces dangerous blind spots because it extends protection and provides visibility across all network traffic, cloud infrastructure, endpoints and mobile devices.
There is a reason we are the fastest growing cybersecurity company in history and up for the challenge of protecting future AI cars. We succeeded in a vision to create an integrated platform that provides unmatched security. Don’t miss out on an opportunity to change the status-quo and modernize the way you protect your premise, cloud and mobile environment. Spend time with our experts and learn how to gain flexibility for business line support without compromising security or risk. Your entire organization as well as your IT operations and security professionals will be glad you did.
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