What is cybersecurity mesh and how can it help you?
                     What is cybersecurity 
mesh and how can it 
help you?
Introduction
The concept of cybersecurity mesh could 
help solve and simplify issues created by 
multi-cloud deployments and the increase in 
remote work environments.
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What is cybersecurity 
mesh?
Cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA) is 
an architectural approach rather than a 
specific technology or market segment. 
It is a similar concept to zero trust. However, 
while zero trust presupposes that every 
device in an ecosystem is already 
compromised and potentially hostile, CSMA 
sees environments as disparate, logically 
separated and heterogeneous. 
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Four distinct layers
1. security analytics and intelligence
2. distributed identity fabric
3. consolidated policy and posture 
management
4. consolidated dashboards
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Short-term effects of 
cybersecurity mesh
Practical-minded practitioners might be 
asking how all of this changes their day-to-
day lives. The answer is that it doesn't at 
least not directly or in the short term.
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Long-term effects of 
cybersecurity mesh
1. Philosophical shifts sometimes drive the 
market, and the market, in turn, 
influences real-life architectures.
2. Industry acceptance makes it easier to 
incorporate the concept into architectural 
approaches.
3. It helps drive interoperability.
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Why Enterprises Need 
Cybersecurity Mesh?
Cybersecurity mesh is the most practical and 
adaptable approach for dealing with these 
threats in an enterprise-level organization. 
It extends security across your entire 
architecture, making it possible to secure all 
systems and points of access with a single, 
unified set of technologies. Further, because 
it is driven by the most recent threat 
intelligence, a cybersecurity mesh can 
evolve as new threats emerge.
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Applications of 
Cybersecurity Mesh
1. Prepare for the future. Your organization can 
be positioned to respond to future security 
risks by selecting cybersecurity technologies 
that facilitate integration. For example, there 
are plug-in application programming 
interfaces (APIs) that allow customization and 
extensions, as well as extensible analytics.
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Applications of 
Cybersecurity Mesh 
cont.
1. Close the gaps. Using current and emerging 
security standards, you can close any security 
gaps due to weaknesses and vulnerabilities in 
different solutions.
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Key Considerations When 
Adopting Cybersecurity 
Mesh
1. Vulnerability: There has been a 600% increase 
in phishing schemes over the past couple of 
years, and ransomware attacks occur every 11 
seconds. This exposes the reality that current 
IT systems are vulnerable. In addition to 
existing vulnerabilities, there is the threat of a 
zero-day attack, an attack by a method 
previously unknown. 
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Key Considerations When 
Adopting Cybersecurity Mesh 
cont.
1. Cost: The cost of ransomware attacks alone is 
about $6 trillion annually, and the cost of 
cybercrime attacks is on the rise at about 15% 
per year. Digital transformation incurs its own 
cost, too, especially if an organization’s 
infrastructure or architecture has to be 
redesigned. 
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