Nikhil Taneja

COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the security of businesses and individuals worldwide. CIOs need to be aware of emerging challenges in the APAC region.

There are several flavours from which to choose when selecting an effective DDoS mitigation strategy. Most enterprises opt for one of the cloud protection flavours (always-on or on-demand)

Organizations need an automated mechanism to ensure business continuity, by securing their cloud environment and aligning with cloud security best practices

The data sought by cybercriminals vary from one vertical to another, whether banking credentials, medical records, pricing information or confidential research, to name just a few

Protecting against excessive permissions, and quickly responding when those permissions are abused, becomes the foremost priority for cloud security administrators, says Radware Nikhil Taneja

Any journey from a physical data center to the cloud requires careful thought, education and investment in new capabilities to enable migration to the new environment.

As enterprises look to become more agile and move towards a DevOps and continuous testing, the need for microservices has grown manifolds

Organizations are adopting cloud-based DDoS defences and substituting them for their old, premise-based DDoS appliances. Nonetheless, there are still a number of reasons why you might want to keep that DDoS appliance around.

When selecting a bot mitigation solution, companies must evaluate the criteria such as power of attack detection, attack response and threat research to determine which bot best fit their unique needs.

The real life point-based driving license model could be a good solution for the security of accessing the applications, writes Radware India MD Nikhil Taneja.