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With over 25 years in the IT sector, Ramesh The cyber security industry is at an inflection
Umashankar brings a wealth of experience point and is poised to deliver state-of-the-art
across the ASEAN as well as South Asia technologies to customers helping them to
market. He successfully helped iValue set up secure their information. The focus of cyber
and scale revenue across 15 countries while security and the policies are being defined
driving business across Education, Services, across nations, governments, big corporates
and Enterprise & Distribution verticals. with multiple geography presence, SME's and
more importantly- “Us” as retail users with our
Here, he observes how data expansion has
personal devices that need to be secured.
propelled the IT industry in the past two
decades while emphasizing the need for data With physical mobility restricted over the last
securitization at multiple levels. two years, the industry has evolved very quickly
Data growth has propelled Information and and moved faster towards digitization of
Technology industry in the last two decades. almost all processes. WFH has been accepted
The crux of all of it has been the ability to slice, as an alternative to keep with the productivity
dice, and analyze data that has helped aspirations, and e-commerce in the retail
organizations better understand customer sector has propelled. This is compelling
needs and cater to them in real-time. business houses to build strong security walls
to ensure that data is not compromised while
The obsession for data has never been this
delivering customer experience at different
feverish, and hence securitizing data has
levels.
become an imperative thought. In the past
As we look forward to 2022, the innovation and
security was spoken in parlance to base-level growth around the cyber security space will
protection, and this was in line with the data
outpace other sectors. The hunger to capture
that was captured. However, this has changed
data will drive the need to securitize it at
rapidly with the explosion of BIG DATA. As a
multiple levels, and this will be a prime focus
result, organizations have started focusing on
across all digitally invested organizations in the
different levels of securities including,
world.
securitization of core data from the network to
the cloud to the endpoint.
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