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The issue of cyber security is unlikely to go away any time soon , if at all , but O ’ Neil can already see the industry responding and fighting back to better protect its networks and infrastructure . Technology solutions providers are investing in and developing software-defined control systems in order to better identify and understand more information around what devices are connecting to data networks .
It ’ s not just internally as more and more vendors are looking at the other side of the equation , providing
end-to-end control from the user to the data center .
“ That really is the ultimate approach that we preach through identitybased control ,” says O ’ Neil . “ Understand who ’ s connecting to the networks , what they are connecting to and be able to control the entire path along the way via those software controls .”
Over the past twenty years the network and infrastructure market has transformed far beyond the historic flat , uncontrolled networks . As technology continues to evolve ,
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