The Digital Big Bang

1SPEED

“Speed is at the nucleus of the cyberfrontier.”

Roland Cloutier, ADP

“Greater connectivity, faster transmission and processing speeds, and machine algorithms result in faster and potentially more accurate decisions.”

Scott Charney, Microsoft

Speed must be viewed and treated like the fundamental element it is. But by its very nature, security slows things down. When you're in the security business, you're fundamentally in the business of slowing people down, and that's a horrible business to be in. Security must harness the power of speed to secure information while protecting against cyberattacks at the same rates.

Simply put, all cybersecurity must be extremely fast.

Security without speed is a losing proposition. In fact, slow security is often no security. Good security strategy must be based on leveraging speed, specifically

• Raw speed to detect and mitigate attacks in real time
• Processing capacity with more sensors, more data, and more insights to parse data more efficiently and find the smallest anomalies in system functionality
• Forward compatibility to create the headroom to implement future solutions that could involve even greater speed

Good security strategy must achieve these goals with as little impact as possible on the speed users have come to expect and demand. That's because in addition to the operational reason for speed, there is a practical ...