vimarsana.com

The cloud and networking business. Lets jump right into it. Its safe to say we were thinking of the Home Strategies and the big focus was election 2020. We all know we had to leap into a new posture with people working from home and there is a lot of impact not to mention those just from the lifestyle of health to proliferate. It is a pretty big undertaking. I would say that i am really pleased with how prepared are. We already mad made a number of platform decisions so weve are leveraging called services i would say w we have to like everyonhad to likeeveryone elsea better job probably the two biggest areas that were challenges and opportunities is to figure out how we do our work and in the same ways that we had before. We had to figure out different ways to have this footprint and giving as much of our work as we could where we learned a number of things. The other part of that is we serve the rest of the executive Branch Agencies as well as other constituent agencies. Many of them were less prepared than we were for a variety of Different Reasons and so figuring out how to quickly reprioritize the engagement so we were helping those agencies to secure themselves that they were moving into those environments and kind of flexing to adjust to the new priority is of what was pretty intense for the first 30 to 60 days. And now i think across the board we have all just dropped into the new normal. The only thing i still havent gotten used to is the camera. The camera is make you start to sweat a little bit. But how about your experience with cisco . We saw our customers go through these stages. Stage one was how to gain capacity on things like vpn etc. There is a set of companies that have workforces that were historically relatively distributed and they seem like it was pretty straightforward and large consulting firms, it services, they have the capacity of a lot of our customers in financial services, it was a huge hell do we go from normile having 10,000 people to know 150,000 on a vpn. Afor kind of a massive scale and both working on the same time supplychain issues. Our suppliers were being infected by this as well and china is where some of our components come from. So just how did we ge do we getr customers up to that capacity perspective. Stage two was how to start rethinking about whats most important to me in this type of environment. We saw a huge spike in terms of that usage. How do they get to identifying who the user is securely independent easy additions to the classic security environment for the workforces. And then we are kind of at this phase now where one of the things i want to think about more broadly the ability on how do i continue that. Theyre at this interesting stage now of revisiting what are the controls that are kind of lasting versus things that maybe are not critical for this environment longterm. As you described this Technology Lessons learned, procurement Lessons Learned. Investment Lessons Learned that maybe if we invested different they would have scaled them differently. You can take the lead on the next question. The kind of efficiency gain you have seen as a result and maybe what technologies are. They have this model becoming more and more valuable. I feel like it is the time to value for customers. We talk about things like can we get customers up in minutes and not hours or weeks. So that has been a big focus of. Its not just things like the securities that arthisactivitieo deploy a writ large and return to these companies in its voltage of the investments weve been making him just the sort of general trends. On the other side if he were a product guy like i am, we had good visibility to the customers that are actually using the products and it helps us in terms of that feedback if we immediately see what features are being used and how long it takes for customers to do certain things as we add a capability, what does the learning curve look like this attorney that is just tremendously valuable. Thats something i dont expect is going to stop anytime soon, but its putting an emphasis on that being a good thing for the industry as a whole and us as a technology provider. Appreciate that perspective. What are your thoughts on . Inefficiencies right. One of the things that have led to inefficiencies are not all that Technology Oriented in my view. One of the things that forced us to focus a bit more if we cant do all the things, we focus on the most important things. We focus our dialogue on the most important things, and that also translates into process improvements. When you have the opportunity to, whatever the tempo is of the day you cant rely on those for communicating information. When those go away or they are more challenged the process change that we have done at least if we have prepared for meetings better. It feels like they take longer but they proliferate better and communicate to the staff in ways that they can read them and so i found its a combination of focusing the efforts and improving the business process so they can conform to the virtual tools that we have and theyve led to bitter focus on the important things and in most cases were able to execute on the important things as successfully we would have been had wel we opened together. On the technology side, a its t forced us to celebrate our adoption of the services a has just mentioned there were things they had a drc in the efficiencies that come from the Cloud Service that may have been in Enterprise Service before that isnt optional in labor right now but less productive later than we would have liked we did i did it again goes indh with the because we have excavated some of that adoption its taken us weeks and months to put this in place but we are seeing the games and the benefits now and that was a huge priority for me. We move more aggressively into the cloud and the covid19 boost has helped make that a requirement and an obvious strategy for us to engage in. This sense that its challenging the way we think and just listening to you talk about this made us think of the speech to be added to other video chat conferences which would be the accidental meet at the water cooler feature is and somebody randomly starts up a conversation. Maybe that is a feature they could have that changes the way we were. Those are the interactions we need to simulate somehow and we recognize how valuable those are about what you described is the way the conversations persist now and how they are welldocumented, that is a challenge and i agree that is what we are seeing. Stay with me for this next question. You talk about the adoption of technologies. What about the zero trust and that is a multifaceted approach. Its not just one thing you do but its across the entire enterprise in how you approach your engineering at large. So tell me about your perspective on how it may have been accelerated through this as well. Its kind of part and parcel to Everything Else we are doing in the software to service. It changes the nature of the perimeter and environment you can control a. Thats been kind of the model so now that they have moved so many things to Cloud Services and software service, it requires us to rethink the nature of trust. At some point theres no way around that. Zero trust we are getting there. We published guidance just in the last few weeks. We are trying to give departments and agencies guidance and flexibility and encourage them to move 20 trust architectures which involve a lot by the way. Theres no its philosophical and architecture so it has to be built and it will take us some time to get there but it is a push from the perspective we are doing pilots now and this has to be a significant part of what they do over the coming years as they move mor north services ino the cloud. Him him. And they had one of the most capable approaches protecting users and devices and then the single largest, may be tied but those things really took off. And it has forced customers to reevaluate. It was already distributed. But it was already there. And with that real interest and how i checked the posture so there could be a model where the enduser not the Security Professionals can participate in a cyberhygiene of the organization. I cant remember why necessarily that might have been there which is a nice wakeup call and then to give that feedback and then will carry that forward. With those strange new world orders. So did the landscape change or did we increase our risk . I would love to hear your thoughts on that. They were already people working from their own devices and now just the proliferation of it was much higher on the register. So talking to our Research Team and it was interesting we see no statistical difference in terms of the attacks post covid versus pre covid. Now there are covid themed attacks aimed at how those have change the bed like the Johns Hopkins threat so the things that we have seen and the types of underlying Malware Technology essentially stays the same. So i am sitting behind that stack and there are some differences that is a scale issue it wasnt court to the change of the landscape frankly. What your perspective . Or are we prioritizing the existing risk . I agree with everything with a little bit of new ones. That we have been advising departments and agencies to patch they are vpn with those vulnerabilities. That goes from enterprise traffic to 90 percent and that there is no more attack through the vpn so those that know where they are so as we embrace all the tools to collaborate and work remotely then the configuration of the tool is presented as a new risk so if you very quickly move to 65 back to that configuration and then you expose any number of things. We publish something a couple months ago exploding those vulnerabilities and 2020 those that we are exploiting and then the big shift in 2020 and with the vpn. Where is microsoft technologies along those lines. Those vulnerabilities are still there. They are still a valid tool that they focus as we shift the way that we were. Will get to everybodys favorite part of predicting the future. We talked about it clearly with our discussion today. I hope my pharmacy goes away. And then with my wellbeing at the pharmacy. What is something you hope goes away . All go quick. I am working right now with employee protection on my laptop. We have security and cad with those applications and i use the vpn a fair amount of my work day. And we can start rethinking what that access pattern looks like. And then just some remote acces access. Agencies shifted away from a couple of places and what we are already learning right now is for commercial information. And if we can work remotely right now we probably dont need to require all employees to have clearance if they dont access information. And those things will reduce cost and this opportunity to accelerate the pace of innovation. You are predicting the end of the panel. Alleluia. We appreciate everybodys efforts. Thank you

© 2024 Vimarsana

vimarsana.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.