Global cybersecurity leader Forcepoint today announced the Forcepoint Converged Security Platform which accelerates enterprise and government agencies’ digital transformation journey by enabling secure migration of data, applications, and business operations to the cloud. Through the new converged security platform, Forcepoint is addressing CISOs business-critical need today for consolidated, cloud-based security solutions in a deployment agnostic delivery model.
“Behavior-based cybersecurity is tailor-made for the era of mobility and cloud because it enables enterprises to detect and respond faster to risk than legacy paradigms that focus only on protecting infrastructure. Forcepoint’s human-centric approach to security enables our customers to protect their people and critical data against the most sophisticated attackers, while freeing them to conduct their business or mission in the most efficient and agile way possible,” said Matt Moynahan, CEO, Forcepoint
Forcepoint Converged Security Platform
The first solution available on the new platform, Forcepoint Dynamic Edge Protection, will enable enterprises to transform their network and security architectures with seamless connectivity to take full advantage of the cloud across distributed application and network environments.
The Forcepoint Converged Security Platform will provide the following benefits:
- Hosts the company’s complete range of enterprise-class security capabilities to deliver risk-adaptive protection and seamless cloud connectivity anywhere organizations and their users are located
- Enables a seamless move to next-generation, human-centric cybersecurity delivered through a cloud architecture
- A reduction in security friction through the application of policies that are dynamically tailored to each individual user’s actions so that businesses can innovate more rapidly
- Open APIs which enable integration with third-party products to extend Forcepoint risk-adaptive protection across infrastructure delivering comprehensive security efficacy
Forcepoint Dynamic Edge Protection
Leveraging the converged security platform’s integration capabilities, Forcepoint also announced strategic investments in a new technology partner ecosystem. These partnerships will deliver customers integrated solutions that extend Forcepoint’s risk-adaptive protection across existing security infrastructure, including cloud, identity, network, and endpoint.
Forcepoint will use its Converged Security Platform to deliver a range of new, cloud-based solutions. Forcepoint Dynamic Edge Protection, will provide an integrated network security solution that supports modernization of enterprise networks for cloud adoption. The solution will offer converged capabilities for SD-WAN connectivity, next-generation firewall-as-a-service with security for Web and Cloud – all as a cloud-first, hybrid-ready service using Forcepoint’s enterprise grade technologies.
