Advance Cyber Resilience with Microsegmentation - Akamai Technologies
Overview
In this masterclass from the CISO and CIO Inspired Summit at Carton House, Ireland, Matthew Payne, Regional Sales Director at Akamai Technologies, who works with critical national infrastructure customers across financial services, the public sector, defence, utilities and healthcare, explores how to strengthen cyber resilience.
As organisations accept that breaches are inevitable, controlling lateral movement within networks becomes critical to stopping minor incidents from escalating. Matthew explains how microsegmentation provides visibility of the attack surface, protects sensitive systems and supports recovery and business continuity.
Key takeaways
- Breaches should be treated as inevitable, so plan how to resume the key operational functions the business needs to survive, such as payroll.
- The threat now includes hostile nation-state actors, with their tools increasingly in the hands of criminal gangs.
- Attackers don't stay where they land; initial access brokers sell footholds, and lateral movement turns small incidents into major ones.
- Microsegmentation separates the network far more granularly than traditional firewalls, so a compromised section doesn't expose the rest, even in flat legacy architectures.
- You can't protect what you don't know: an accurate record of assets is the foundation of resilience, and well-implemented segmentation can frustrate even determined penetration testers.
Watch the full session on YouTube: Advance Cyber Resilience with Microsegmentation | CIO & CISO Inspired Summit
