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With the number of data breaches escalating and threat landscape fast evolving, Asia-Pacific enterprises will have to think outside the box and transform their cybersecurity strategy, especially since current tools are no longer effective in staving off attacks.

Asia-Pacific businesses must start thinking outside the box and transform their cybersecurity strategy, as the threat landscape is increasingly complex and the number of major data breaches escalating. Hackers' tactics and focus also have become more insidious, so existing tools and approaches may no longer be effective in staving off attacks. 

To further compound the problem, there currently is a lack of talent, with the global studies predicting there will be 3.5 million vacancies in the cybersecurity industry by 2021, according to Jinan Budge, Forrester's principal analyst for security and risk, citing research from Cybersecurity Ventures.

Following a year of several high-profile breaches in the region, including Singapore's SingHealth breach that affected 1.5 million patients, chief information security officers (CISOs) in Asia-Pacific remained challenged in 2019 as regulatory uncertainties continued and economies showed signs of slowing down, said Budge, who was speaking at RSA Conference in Singapore this week. 

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Virtualization and cloud make energizing business change openings, imaginative assistance conveyance models, and improved financial matters. Simultaneously, they present another component of administration conveyance challenges that request constant application and organization perceivability to support operational spryness. 

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Cisco Prime™ Virtual Network Analysis Module (vNAM) conveys operational dexterity by allowing arrangement anyplace in the organization to improve administration levels. You can send the vNAM in the cloud to screen facilitated outstanding burdens, at far off destinations to describe the end-client experience, or anyplace in the organization to wipe out vulnerable sides. It consolidates profound application mindfulness, canny execution investigation, and thorough organization perceivability to enable organization chairmen to proficiently and viably deal with their organizations. 

Cisco Prime vNAM's flexibility permits you to: 

● Gain Layer 4-Layer 7 perceivability utilizing Cisco® Network-Based Application Recognition 2 (NBAR2) locally to effectively distinguish business-basic applications 

● Understand traffic conduct inside overlay advances, for example, VXLAN, LISP, and OTV 

● Analyze network utilization by application, have or Virtual Machine (VM), and discussion to distinguish bottlenecks that may influence execution and accessibility 

● Troubleshoot execution issues by consolidating definite traffic stream and parcel examination reliably across physical and virtual conditions 

● Validate foundation updates, for example, WAN advancement, Cisco TrustSec®, and Quality-of-Service (QoS) strategy changes 

● Take favorable position of a coordinated electronic interface to deal with a site distantly, wiping out the need to backhaul the information to an incorporated area and sparing WAN transmission capacity 

Cisco Prime vNAM accompanies a distantly open online administration and announcing console (Figure 1), which runs the Cisco Prime Network Analysis Module Software. The product incorporates prepackaged dashboards that give a quick perspective on network execution and work processes that help quicken operational choices.

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