It's always valuable to take a look outside or your organisation to get a view on what's happening elsewhere -- and this report : Gartner Top Security and Risk Trends for 2021 is a great source of information.

In this survey, Cybersecurity mesh, security-savvy boards of directors, and remote working all made this year’s security and risk trends.

As cybersecurity and regulatory compliance become the top two biggest concerns of corporate boards, some are adding cybersecurity experts specifically to scrutinize security and risk issues. 

Adding a cybersecurity expert directly to the board is just one of the eight Gartner security and risk trends for 2021, many of which are driven by recent events such as security breaches and the COVID-19 pandemic.

“In the past year, the typical enterprise has been turned inside out,” says Peter Firstbrook, VP Analyst, Gartner. “As the new normal takes shape, all organizations will need an always-connected defensive posture, and clarity on what business risks remote users elevate to remain secure.”

This year’s security and risk trends highlight ongoing strategic shifts in the security ecosystem that aren’t yet widely recognized, but are expected to have broad industry impact and significant potential for disruption.

Highlighting Trend No. 4: Identity-first security

The perfect storm of several events made identity as the new perimeter a trend, including COVID-19 resulting in remote work and technical and cultural shifts. Identity-first security has been considered the gold standard for a while, but because many organizations remained in more traditional setups, it wasn’t a focus.  Now that the pandemic has pushed organizations to fully (or mostly) remote, this trend has become vital to address. The result of these technical and culture shifts is that “identity first security” now represents the way all information workers will function, regardless of whether they are remote or office-bound. 

Although all these trends reflect our current times, there are three points that jump out at me.

A) Recognising identity as the new perimeter driven by remote work and technical and cultural shifts. Identity-first security represents the way all information workers will function, regardless of whether they are remote or office-bound. 
B) As cost reductions are demanded in businesses, vendor consolidation is top of the agenda - One Identity is ideally suited to help due to our broad portfolio of integrated IAM products
C) Boards are paying more attention to cybersecurity & an organization’s CISO gets increased scrutiny and higher expectations, alongside an increase in support and resources. Having Cybersecurity discussed at this level requires our partners to be better equipped to contribute - One Identity sales and pre-sales enablement is designed to equip them.
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