Symantec White Paper - Securing the Cloud for the Enterprise

whitePaper | November 23, 2022

The pandemic put strong pressures on organizations to modernize their infrastructure. The sudden rush of remote workers using virtual desktop infrastructure has resulted in surges and strains within current IT infrastructure. Organizations then were faced with a difficult choice: continue operations with slow, and at times insufficient capacity to support its workers, or upgrade their IT infrastructure. Upgrading IT infrastructure provides its own challenges: on-prem upgrades are an expensive endeavor and a considerable effort must be put into provisioning the right amount of hardware. Under-provisioning could potentially result in disruptions to operations and over-provisioning would result in wasted expenses. The other option is migrating to the cloud, which although does allow for elasticity with provisioning, does have challenges in the massive, timeand resource-intensive process of replacing legacy systems with cloud-based SaaS enterprise software.

whitePaper | October 3, 2022

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is unleashing fundamental innovation in the way organizations buy, deploy, and operate network infrastructures. By leveraging open standards and commodity hardware, NFV delivers cost savings, enhanced flexibility, improved performance, and more. However, without the right safeguards, organizations can also see their vulnerabilities increase when they move to a Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) architecture. This white paper offers a detailed look at the unique security implications of adopting NFV approaches, and it provides a number of best practices to employ to ensure sensitive data and transmissions remain secure in these environments.

whitePaper | September 13, 2022

Over the past years, the global SD-WAN market has experienced rapid growth, reaching a value of around $1B in 2018 according to analysts at Global Markets Insights. Driven by the demand for cost effective WAN management solutions, the increasing adoption of cloud technologies, the need for simplified network architecture, end-to-end network security and visibility, the market is forecast to grow at over 30% CAGR through to 2025

whitePaper | March 22, 2022

Smartphones and mobile device management (MDM) tools such as VMware Workspace ONE® (formerly AirWatch) changed everything when it comes to end-user computing, and more specifically, how companies interact with their customers. With widespread adoption of intelligent mobile devices in the early 2010s, consumers’ preferences changed forever. More specifically, iPhone and Android devices provided a platform to streamline everyday tasks like never before.

whitePaper | February 15, 2022

Cybersecurity is a top concern at the highest levels of government and industry worldwide. More than ever, government and corporate leaders – from Senators and Members of Parliament to CEOs and Board Directors – are deeply engaged in ensuring effective cybersecurity strategies are in place at government agencies and companies.

whitePaper | June 16, 2022

An overarching aspiration of digital sovereignty represents the need to ensure a national (or regional), sovereign end-to-end digital capability and control. Such an aspiration is not only concerned with the sovereign protection of data, but going beyond such data sovereignty concerns and ensuring access to sovereign digital tools to develop applications.