With the networking and security industries evolving rapidly, Fortinet has listed eight trends that it expects will become the most important developments and technologies to look out for in 2015.
First is that security breaches are harder to stop. The development of defense systems over the past 10-15 years has led to a myriad of disparate security appliances, software agents and management systems that in many cases are unable to talk to one other.
Next-generation security architectures will integrate discrete security systems into a platform, which can correlate threat life elements and break the infection chain in different places.
Second, cloud technologies are finally taking root. Cloud bursting, hybrid clouds and personal clouds will mean more sharing of distributed services, management and security.
Third, mobile apps and management will be diverse with at least two to three platforms across the globe. Improved JavaScript performance will begin to push HTML5 and the browser as a mainstream enterprise application development environment. This will lead to richer applications and more focus on their usability, rather than larger and cumbersome applications.
Fourth, software defined modular infrastructure becomes the norm. The effect is that APIs are being consumed at a much higher rate. However, APIs are also a potential security hole to the network element.