Cybersecurity Mesh

Description

OVERVIEW OF CYBERSECURITY MESH

            The cybersecurity mesh help to centralize security policies while ensuring enforcement is more distributed.The goal is to ensure that the securitie of each access points can be effectively managed from a centralized point of authority. In this ways, the cybersecurity mesh helps to centralize security policies while ensuring enforcement is more distributed and a robust, flexible and modular approach much needed for enterprises operating from anywhere in an evolving business and risk environment.More specifically, a Cybersecurity Mesh involves designing and implementing an IT security infrastructures that does not focus on building a single ‘perimeter’ around all devices or nodes of a network but instead creates smaller, individual perimeters around each access point. The goal is to ensure that each access point’s security can be effectively managed from a centralized point of authority. In this way, the mesh can be viewed as centralization of your security policy, and a distribution of that policy’s enforcement.

A Cybersecurity Mesh can establish a more robust, flexible and modular approach to a network’s security. By ensuring that each node has its own perimeter, it allows an IT network manager to better maintain and track different levels of access to various parts of a given network. This aims to prevent hackers from exploiting a given node’s weakness to access the broader network.

The 4 Layers of Cybersecurity Mesh
Adopting a cybersecurity mesh strategy has distinct advantage, specifically scalability, composability, and interoperability. For new developments, this strategy changes the approach to designing and building the network infrastructure. For existing networks, evolving to a new strategy may mean significant adjustments to the infrastructure at first, but the benefits justify the cost. 

Security Analytics and Intelligence

Centralized administration means that vast amounts of data can be collected, consolidated, and analyzed in real-time at a central location. This improves your risk analysis capabilities, threat response time, and mitigation of attacks. CSMA “combines the data and lessons from other security tools, and provides analyses of threats and triggers appropriate responses.”

Distributed Identity Fabric
This layer “provides capabilities such as directory services, adaptive access, decentralized identity management, identity proofing and entitlement management.”

Consolidated Policy and Posture Management
CSMA “can translate a central policy into the native configuration constructs of individual security tools or, as a more advanced alternative, provide dynamic runtime authorization services,” ensuring IT teams can more effectively identify compliance risks and misconfiguration issues. 

Consolidated Dashboards

CSMA “offers a composite view into the security ecosystem, enabling security teams to respond more quickly and more effectively to security events” to deploy the appropriate responses.