Two Decades Ago, Security Was Rather Simple. But If You Look At The Current Threat Landscape, It's Mired With Complexities

- Shrikanth G

Do we need to be paranoid to be pro-active in terms of security?

Different things move different people, but it is important to do the right thing. For example, paranoia can help you take the right or wrong action. More than paranoia, an informed ‘security aware’ is the approach I would recommend for pro-active security.

As a thought leader in this space if you look at the security landscape, what were the key inflection points?

In the past, say two decades ago, security was rather simple. But if you look at the current threat landscape, it’s mired with complexities. This complexity I consider it as a key inflection. This is what is driving the security solution and the market. More and more threat actors are coming in by the day, and the manifestation of the threat is materializing in many different ways that call for a high degree of sophisticated solutions to address the current security complexities.

What differentiates Check Point from other players in the market?

I think the core value we have is a little bit different from other players in the fray. We are a highly customer-centric company and serve their security needs. In what way we are doing it differently is our ability and depth of offering that comes from more than two decades of being in the security space, this has given us an enormous degree of depth to address the myriad security challenges.

The security market is extremely plural with multiple vendors, for an IT decision maker or a CISO, how difficult is to go in for a security solution- is it a multi-vendor approach or single vendor approach that works here?