NTT Security's Greg Garten on cleaning up 'dirty networks'

Garten says there's a misconception in the industry that traditional approaches to security can be applied easily to the cloud.

Kelsey Ziser, Senior Editor

January 25, 2022

NTT Security's Greg Garten on cleaning up 'dirty networks'

Greg Garten, CTO for NTT Security, joins the podcast to discuss security concerns that arise as service providers and enterprises move their business operations to the cloud, and how NTT Security is cleaning up "dirty networks" for small and midsized business customers.

Garten says there's a misconception in the industry that traditional approaches to security can be applied easily to the cloud.

"There's this mismatch of expectations out there and the thinking that you can apply traditional bolt-on security technologies that evolved over the years from the enterprises and just apply that to the cloud. A lot of people are looking at the cloud as someone else's data center, which is not true. It's a really different paradigm and our industry is slow to adapt to that paradigm," said Garten.

In addition, Garten explains how NTT Security has applied security learnings from enterprises to assist small and midsized customers, and vice versa.

"If we can take our insights, algorithms and machine learning models and the output of that to that down market area, not only are we successful but we're helping protect those customers where they previously protected."

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— Kelsey Kusterer Ziser, Senior Editor, Light Reading

About the Author

Kelsey Ziser

Senior Editor, Light Reading

Kelsey is a senior editor at Light Reading, co-host of the Light Reading podcast, and host of the "What's the story?" podcast.

Her interest in the telecom world started with a PR position at Connect2 Communications, which led to a communications role at the FREEDM Systems Center, a smart grid research lab at N.C. State University. There, she orchestrated their webinar program across college campuses and covered research projects such as the center's smart solid-state transformer.

Kelsey enjoys reading four (or 12) books at once, watching movies about space travel, crafting and (hoarding) houseplants.

Kelsey is based in Raleigh, N.C.

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