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1. Learnings from the IDC South Africa CIO Summit 2023 #IDSACIO
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Learnings from the IDC South
Africa CIO Summit 2023 #IDSACIO
byLalitShinde| aiMSSP,aiSIEM, aiXDR,CyberSecurityCompany| 0
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My colleagues and our partners attended the annual IDC South
Africa CIO Summit 2023 on May 18, 2023 in Johannesburg. We
had many great conversations with our partners and their
customers, a few key themes emerged this year.

2. Learnings from the IDC South Africa CIO Summit 2023 #IDSACIO
Enterprises are innovating faster than ever before and the driving
thread across all innovation is “digital transformation” – it’s no longer a
future initiative or a “big picture strategy” it’s now the norm. Almost
every aspect of society is being pushed forward by digitally enabled
services such as education healthcare, financial services and the
realization that “remote work” is here to stay.
Corr-Serve is Seceon’s authorized distributor in the Africa IT market. Corr-
serve is a South African business dedicated to offering the best
cybersecurity, threat management, and applicationperformancemanagement
solutionstoourpartnersfortheircustomers.Mark van Vuurenis the Corr-Serve
Product Director.

3. Theme 1: Attack Surface Expansion and the Need to Modernize
As the digital footprint expands, so does the attack surface for cyber
criminals. The volume of new workloads and the variety of deployment
models they rely on: on-premises, remote offices, remote employees,
colocation, hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud, microservices, and the edge (IoT,
OT) is making
monitoring to
it harder for teams to secure. From observability and
capturing logs and events across the larger attack
surface.
surfaces, the rapid attack surface expansion is creating more
opportunities for successful cyber attacks. Enterprises, MSPs, MSSPs
are all racing to discover new ways to solve these security challenges.
We see and hear the same thing from our partners around the world –
the attack surface is so large, that complete defenses are not possible
with legacy tools and legacy processes.
The only way to protect and defend today’s organizations and detect
future security breaches and intrusions is with a modernized approach.
We believe that requires ingesting as many sources of events and logs
from across the larger attack surface and applying AI/ML to analyze in
real time for vulnerabilities and indicators of compromise. It’s an arms
race between the threat actors using AI/ML, and the vendors that
cybersecurity teams are depending on. The only answer is AI/ML
based real-time,detections from acrossthenow verylarge attack

4. Theme 2: Security and IT Automation
The summit stage and the attendees I spoke to also referenced the
growing importance of automation. Combining the speed of today’s
business technology changes, software deployment methods and new
security attacks and vulnerabilities, it’s critical that service providers,
and IT pros implement more automation across all aspects of their
business. With IT and cybersecurity, AIOps, and security event
orchestration and response are increasingly automated.
Speakers from both UiPath and F5 discussed ways to drive automation
into all business processes and with today’s global threats coming at
us 24/7 from a global perspective, automation is the only way to
defend an organization. UiPath’s Gregory Williams even claimed that
AI-enabled automation is a boardroom priority.
Theme 3: The 2.0 Wave of Digital Transformation Adds AI and ML
The final observation I have is that these two movements – attack
surface expansion (due to digital transformation projects) and
automation are driving a new wave of AI and ML driven changes to
cybersecurity people, process, and technologies. When you combine
the speed of new deployments with zero-day attacks and increasingly
AI-powered attacks, plus the cybersecurity talent crunch, the only
possible answer is to embed AI and ML-based protection, detection
and response capabilities into the platforms security teams use to
protect their organizations and clients. I am super excited that Seceon
is perfectly positioned to support the teams that recognize this need
and their deployments of Seceon aiSIEM and aiXDR acorss their
environments.

5. #IDSACIO Event Summary
I thoroughly enjoyed the day with our partner Corr-Serve, their
customers and partners, IDC analysts and the community here in South
Africa. The need to transform security services and security operations
centers is gaining momentum and I believe Seceon’s platform is the
answer for the teams that need an efficient and effective platform that
leverages their existing investments and due to our real-time AI/ML
detection and response engines can be an effective way to scale
coverage to the new attack surfaces.

6. Learnings from the IDC South Africa CIO Summit 2023 #IDSACIO
To learn more about Seceon aiSIEM and aiXDR and how your
organization and meet the needs of today’s cybersecurity challenges –
be sure to schedule a demo with one of our engineers today.
“I always enjoy this event, and this year the focus was less “digital
transformation” and more about the new reality – of the need to
modernize cybersecurity people, process, and technologies to
protect and defend all of these new attack surfaces. The general
consensus by the speakers and attendees was that it can only be
accomplished with automation and AI and ML.’” said Mark van Vuuren is
theCorr-Serve

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