Remote and hybrid teams, the numbers of which have grown exponentially during the COVID-19 pandemic, are here to stay. And, with this new reality, there is a whole new range of cybersecurity threats for companies to worry about.
Legacy VPNs have a lot of gaps in security, especially for enterprises with widely distributed remote teams. So, business IT teams are basically playing catch-up, trying to implement new cybersecurity tools and solutions to fill those gaps on the fly.
Perimeter 81 is a zero-trust network cybersecurity leader that has launched the world’s first Cybersecurity Experience Platform (CSX platform) to address many of the security challenges faced by modern enterprise networks and replace fragmented, patchy cybersecurity solutions.
What Is a Cybersecurity Experience Platform?
CSX is a whole new category in the cybersecurity industry. A cyber security experience platform, like Permeter 81’s first-of-its-kind CSX platform, is an all-in-one tool that seeks to radically simplify the enterprise cybersecurity experience and keep corporations from falling into what Perimeter 81 calls “The Cyber Complexity Trap™.”
Perimeter 81’s CSX platform does this by unifying dozens of cybersecurity and networking tools into a single intelligent, well-designed, and easy-to-use platform. This gives business IT professionals more granular control than ever over all aspects of their company’s cybersecurity and reduces the risks of cyber attacks, which traditional solutions like VPNs are more vulnerable than ever to.
This type of cyber experience platform created by Perimeter 81 operates on zero-trust principals, meaning that nobody has access to areas of the business network that they aren’t given permission to access. Compared to a VPN, which gives any user with credentials access to the whole network, this granular control over access drastically reduces the potential attack surface for cyber attacks.
Why businesses need a CSX platform in 2021
A recent study by Perimeter 81, which surveyed 500 IT professionals from companies that have more than 50 employees, found that 87% of the companies surveyed have remote or hybrid employees (i.e., people who work remotely several days a week).
Though the coronavirus pandemic has played a big role in the shift towards remote working, studies also predict that the numbers of remote and hybrid employees will continue to trend upwards when we eventually get back to some kind of new “normal.”
So, what’s the problem? Well, when the majority of a company’s employees work in an office, and perhaps only occasionally connect to the business’s VPN from elsewhere, it’s fairly easy to keep a tight grip on cybersecurity.
However, when a majority of employees are working remotely, from different devices, over different WiFi networks, and from widespread locations, it’s much harder to ensure the security of enterprise systems and networks.
For instance, with a legacy VPN, hackers only need to acquire one user’s credentials to get into the whole network and access all the business’s systems and data.
Zero-trust Cybersecurity Experience Platforms aim to solve this by providing enterprise IT teams with much tighter control over who gets access to what, as well as much higher visibility and better monitoring capabilities — all in one central hub (i.e., Perimeter 81).
Instead of having to manage and monitor dozens of fragmented cybersecurity tools, IT professionals can now see and control everything they need to in one platform, so nothing slips through the cracks.
The Perimeter 81 CSX platform is a 100% cloud-based solution, and includes features such as:
- Cloud Management Console
- Zero-Trust Network Access
- Zero-Trust Agentless Access
- Firewall as a Service
- Device Posture Check
Additionally, Perimeter 81’s Cybersecurity Experience Platform can be deployed in 20 minutes and has been shown to save customers 250 hours or more annually (which would be spent on manual hardware configuration, network deployment, and help desk support for traditional network security solutions).
More About Perimeter 81
Perimeter 81, based in Tel Aviv, Israel, was founded in 2018 by two Israeli Defense Force (IDF) elite intelligence unit alumni, CEO Amit Bareket and CPO Sagi Gidali. They designed the world’s first CSX platform with simplicity in mind and the goal of providing a centralized hub for corporate network and cybersecurity management.
The company currently provides SaaS cybersecurity solutions to a wide range of clients, from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies, in many different industries and sectors. Perimeter 81 has raised tens of millions of dollars in seed funding since its inception and continues to disrupt the legacy VPN and firewall cybersecurity solution markets.
The Bottom Line
The bottom line is that complexity is a problem when it comes to corporate cybersecurity. IT teams need a unified tool that allows them to quickly and simply control, customize, and monitor their enterprise network security configurations.
Perimeter 81 is addressing these needs and more with its user-friendly, highly-secure CSX platform. Companies no longer need to deploy and manage hardware or dozens of cybersecurity tools to protect their employees and networks from cyber attacks.
With the number of 100% remote and hybrid teams steadily on the rise, more and more companies are seeking out all-in-one network security solutions, and Perimeter 81 is here to answer their calls with the world’s first Cybersecurity Experience Platform.
