Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
IF 2020 was the year that business slowed while the world came to grips with Covid-19, then 2021 is the year that the adaptation is completed as business approaches normality. Organizations' workforces have continued to work remotely in many places, but organizations and people are no longer distracted by this.
From a technology perspective, this has meant that spending has increased as organizations embrace new technologies such as containerization and cloud-native architectures. Along with this comes the corresponding need to update their security tooling. The shift to remote work in 2020 meant that associated security tools such as VPNs, DLPs and endpoint protection are already in place, allowing budgets to be used elsewhere. And due to the constant barrage of hack and data breach headlines, budgets within many firms have shifted to application security since protecting web applications, APIs and other application-layer aspects have become increasingly prioritized.
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