Learnings from the IDC South Africa CIO Summit 2023 #IDSACIO (1)
                     Learnings from the IDC South Africa CIO Summit 2023 
#IDSACIO
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Learnings from the IDC South  
Africa CIO Summit 2023 
#IDSACIO
by Lalit Shinde |  aiMSSP, aiSIEM, aiXDR, Cyber Security Company | 0
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My colleagues and our partners attended the annual IDC South 
Africa  CIO Summit 2023 on May 18, 2023 in Johannesburg. We 
had many  great conversations with our partners and their 
customers, a few key  themes emerged this year.
Learnings from the IDC South Africa CIO Summit 2023 
#IDSACIO
Enterprises are innovating faster than ever before and  the  
driving  thread across all innovation is “digital transformation” –  
it’s no longer a  future initiative or a “big picture strategy” it’s 
now the norm. Almost  every aspect of society is being pushed 
forward by digitally enabled  services such as education 
healthcare, financial services and the  realization that “remote 
work” is here to stay.
Corr-Serve is Seceon’s authorized distributor in the Africa IT market. Corr-
serve is a South  African business dedicated to offering the best 
cybersecurity, threat management, and  application performance management 
solutions to our partners for their customers. Mark van Vuuren is the Corr-Serve 
Product Director.
Theme 1: Attack Surface Expansion and the Need to 
Modernize
As the digital footprint expands, so does the attack surface for 
cyber  criminals. The volume of new workloads and the variety 
of deployment  models they rely on: on-premises, remote 
oOffiT)c eiss , remote employees,  colocation, hybrid-cloud, multi-it harder for teams to secure. From 
mcloaukidn,g m  icroservices, and the edge (IoT,observability and  capturing logs and events 
monitoring across the larger attack
tsourfaces, the rapid attack surface expansion is creating more  
opportunities for   successful cyber attacks. Enterprises, MSPs, 
MSSPs  are all racing to discover new ways to solve these 
security challenges.  We see and hear the same thing from our 
partners around the world –   the attack surface is so large, that 
complete defenses are not possible  with legacy tools and 
legacy processes.
The only way to protect and defend today’s organizations and 
detect  future security breaches and intrusions is with a 
modernized approach.  We believe that requires ingesting as 
many sources of events and logs  from across the larger attack 
ssurrffacce and applying AI/ML to analyze in  real time for 
evu. lnerabilities and indicators of compromise. It’s an arms  race 
between the threat actors using AI/ML, and the vendors that  
cybersecurity teams are depending on. The only  answer  is  
AI/ML  based real-time, detections from across the now very large 
attack
Theme 2: Security and IT Automation
The summit stage and the attendees I spoke to also referenced 
the  growing importance of automation. Combining the speed of 
today’s  business technology changes, software deployment 
methods and new  security attacks and vulnerabilities, it’s  
critical that service  providers,  and IT pros implement more 
automation across all aspects of their  business. With IT and 
cybersecurity, AIOps, and security event  orchestration and 
response are increasingly automated.
Speakers from both UiPath and F5 discussed ways to drive 
automation  into all business processes and  with today’s 
global threats coming  at  us 24/7 from a global perspective, 
automation is the  only  way to  defend an organization. 
UiPath’s Gregory Williams even claimed that  AI-enabled 
automation is a boardroom priority.
Theme 3: The 2.0 Wave of Digital Transformation Adds AI and 
ML
The final observation I have is that these two movements –  
attack  surface expansion (due to digital transformation 
projects) and  automation are driving a new wave of AI and ML 
driven changes to  cybersecurity people, process,  and  
technologies. When you combine  the speed of new 
deployments with zero-day attacks and increasingly  AI-
powered attacks, plus the cybersecurity talent crunch, the only  
possible answer is to embed AI  and  ML-based protection, 
detection  and response capabilities into the platforms security 
teams use to  protect their organizations and  clients.  I am 
super excited  that Seceon  is  perfectly positioned to support 
the teams that recognize  this need  and their deployments of 
Seceon aiSIEM and aiXDR acorss their  environments.
#IDSACIO Event Summary
I thoroughly enjoyed the day with our partner Corr-Serve, their  
customers and partners, IDC analysts and the community here in 
South  Africa. The need to transform security services and 
security operations  centers is gaining momentum and I believe 
Seceon’s platform is the  answer for the teams that need an 
efficient and effective platform that  leverages their existing 
investments and due to our real-time AI/ML  detection and 
response engines can be an effective way to scale  coverage to 
the new attack surfaces.
Learnings from the IDC South Africa CIO Summit 2023 
#IDSACIO
“I always enjoy this event, and this year the focus was less “digital  
transformation” and more about the new reality –  of the need to  
modernize cybersecurity people, process, and technologies to 
protect  and defend all of these new attack surfaces. The general 
consensus by  the speakers and attendees was that it can only be 
accomplished with  automation and AI and ML.’” said Mark van Vuuren 
is the Corr-Serve
To learn more about Seceon aiSIEM and aiXDR and how your  
organization and meet the needs of today’s cybersecurity 
challenges –   be sure to schedule a demo with one of our 
engineers today.
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