The urgency for security for the enterprise is rising as the rate and sophistication of breaches occur. Protecting an environment from an attack that may occur is no longer the focus; detecting and mitigating breaches that have most likely occurred seems to now be the primary concern for the enterprise.

Sue Barsamian, senior VP and GM, enterprise security products at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (HPE), sat down with John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover 2015 — London, to talk about the changing landscape of security.

Barsamian feels the complexities of the landscape that needs protection is dramatically different due to public and private cloud, mobile, and Big Data. “The perimeter is no longer the perimeter,” she said, explaining that in the past, most information that needed protection resided on a managed network and people had access through managed devices.

The new perimeter

According to Barsamian, over the past 10 years, half of security spending was going to blocking known threats at the perimeter and at the endpoint. She compared that to today’s environment where the important information still sits on the corporate network, but some is in the cloud, both private and public, and there is no control over the endpoint.

“Fundamentally, you have to shift from protecting the perimeter and endpoint exclusively and focus more on protecting the target,” she noted. Barsamian identified 99 percent of breaches today are about the data — most of that personally identifiable data or payment card data — and the route to the data is through an application. As a result, the application is now the new perimeter because the application wraps the data and the data is the target.

Customer demands

When asked about customer concerns, Barsamian said, “Customers want us to make it seamless: Don’t bolt it on; build it in. That is an important mantra for us.”

For HPE, that means building security into whatever hardware or software stack its running, into IT processes, into DevOps and incidence management processes, making it necessary for Barsamian’s team to work cross functionally with the HP teams that are building the infrastructure.

Barsamian pointed out that the more sophisticated customers are responding to the threats; however, the mid-market is not as aware of the threats. Adversaries are going after the mid-market because it is an easier target. For these clients, she recommends managed security services.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of HPE Discover 2015 — London. And join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting live with theCUBE hosts during the event.

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