Business Continuity Management / Disaster Recovery , CrowdStrike Outage Updates , Governance & Risk Management

Proactive Network Security: Lessons From CrowdStrike Outage

The recent CrowdStrike outage highlighted the need for organizations to shift from reactive risk management to proactive network protection, according to Claroty CEO Yaniv Vardi.

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Critical infrastructure organizations should implement compensating controls, network segmentation and secure remote access to address increased vulnerability from IT-OT convergence and minimize the impact of a third-party vendor outage. Vardi said organizations must focus on proactive protection and policy enforcement to reduce risks before IT or security incidents occur and gain control over systems (see: Claroty Gets $100M for Global Growth, Microsegmentation M&A).

"Regardless of the IT outage, which was the biggest in history, I think we need to be very focused on compensating controls that need to be embedded and addressed much faster," Vardi said. "We started to see the trend, going from reactive - meaning risk management and incident response - to proactive - network protection, segmentation, actions and enforcement - to deal with this."

In this video interview with Information Security Media Group, Vardi also discussed:

• The impact of IT-OT convergence on cyber-physical security strategies;
• Securing remote access for critical infrastructure organizations;
• Future expansion plans for Claroty's platform and market reach.

Prior to joining Claroty in 2020, Vardi served as global managing director of Centrica Business Solutions International. Prior to joining Centrica, he served as CEO of Panoramic Power, a global pioneer in energy management solutions for global C&I clients. Before that, he was co-founder and managing director of Sparta Systems EMEA.