Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Fortinet surveyed retailers on current business changes, challenges and investment plans including telework, new technologies and integrations, compliance, the cybersecurity skills shortage, cloud security and SD-WAN. Retailers have had to fast-track plans to integrate web and mobile applications, order delivery solutions and other services with their point-of-sale networks. Forty-four percent of respondents indicated staffing was one of their biggest security challenges during Covid-19, but retail organizations are using a wide range of approaches to address the cybersecurity skills shortage. The challenge is that not every SD-WAN offering includes security integrated into the solution. A secure SD-WAN is necessary to efficiently and effectively mitigate risk, provide business continuity and allow for greatest ROI.

Source: Manila Times December 24, 2020 16:34 UTC