Infosys’ Vishal Salvi and Microsoft’s Pete Boden on shaping a cyber security culture

How does one ensure that risk-taking is not hampered but rather encouraged by those managing risk in the new digital reality? Vishal Salvi, Senior Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer & Head of the Cyber Security Practice, Infosys and Pete Boden, General Manager – Enterprise Security, Microsoft discuss shaping a cybersecurity culture with a clear focus on innovation quotient.

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Trust continues to be a major concern for business leaders across the world. To deliberate on ways to make companies risk-ready along with being future-ready, Microsoft held a flagship event Future Ready.

“As we think about this new mode of work… we are going to have people working from any location on many different types of devices. Our security control environment needs to continue to evolve to meet those needs,” said Boden at the two-day conference.

With the large scale adoption of data and cloud technologies across businesses, a threat that was till today manageable within the perimeter of an organization can be anywhere on the borderless world of the internet.

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“We are seeing a significant amount of digital innovation and adoption. It can be said that any organization without a digital strategy is not really innovating. From a cybersecurity world, the attack threat surface increases dramatically,” feels Salvi.

These cyber security breaches always existed, however, the pandemic has intensified the frequency of such incidents. As the pandemic now seems to ease out, a gradual shift towards a mixed-mode of work is being witnessed. One of the most powerful things found incredibly helpful to measure both productivity and security in this hybrid world, are the remote-ready security controls.