4. WatchGuard’s Stephen Helm

The debate surrounding decentralized security is kind of like the discussion around federal vs. state rights. States feel the need to assert control because they perceive the federal government as inept or overbearing. In contrast, the federal government’s argument is that they have the resources to handle problems that cross state lines. If IT teams are the country, then individual departments are like the states. WatchGuard Technologies’ Stephen Helm makes the week for explaining the relationship between IT teams and departments, and why it doesn’t bode well for cybersecurity and MSPs.

“Maintaining a consistent security policy across the broader organization can be difficult without centralizing security, especially for time-strapped IT teams. Signs of an active attack can be lost in the cracks or missed because they weren’t contextualized with events occurring at other security layers,” Helm said.

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