
"The best way I know needs to be done is for vendors like us to share information and not be shy to share when we've been breached. "No company, regardless of how many resources you have or how smart and dedicated you are, will be able to thwart nation-state attacks," he said, stressing the difficulty of defending against such threats. In reiterating the need for security by design, Ramakrishna also underscored the importance of adopting a zero trust framework as well as the need for better collaboration between private and public sectors. Organisations then would be able to detect issues faster and remediate. This included the need for deeper observability or "observation", as he coined it, with a comprehensive system that could look at data across all entities including networks, databases, applications, users, and systems. It drove SolarWinds to pull together its monitoring capabilities and extend them to support such security requirements, he said. Security challenges were amplified along with demands on performance and the ability to identify and remediate issues, he added. This was particularly critical amidst significant changes in IT environments, as organisations adopted hybrid work and were more dependent on cloud services, he said.Īs their ecosystems widened, they now had to deal with different environments with different security postures and different connectivity profiles, he noted. Rather than roll over and play victim, though, Ramakrishna said companies needed to learn from such attacks and continuously worked to better mitigate their impact. Deeper observability needed to manage complex hybrid environments
