How Infoblox Streamlines Operations Across Hybrid Settings

Operational siloes have created challenges in hybrid environments by limiting efficiency and cross-domain functionality. These siloes have led to the pervasiveness of domain-specific tools, which can be hard to manage, said CEO Scott Harrell.

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Siloed tools force customers to manually integrate workflows using tools like Terraform and Ansible, which Harrell said is manageable at a small scale but difficult to sustain in large environments. The greater reliance on hybrid environment has prompted customers to consolidate their network operations and security teams into a unified cloud operations model, boosting workflow orchestration, Harrell said (see: Infoblox CEO on Bringing DNS Protection to Domain Monitoring).

“We saw customers that we worked with to start to unify these workflows, and they’ve been able to compress the time – how long it takes an app to go from dev to prod – from weeks to minutes,” Harrell said. “Even a single app is not really a single app. It’s multi-tiered. You have multi-regions, you have multi-HA zones, you have all the stuff that goes on.”

In this video interview with Information Security Media Group, Harrell also discussed:

• The unique role of DNS in threat detection and response;
• Autonomous malware and the obsolescence of legacy kill chains;
• Proactive threat detection leveraging supply chain analysis.

Harrell has spent more than two decades in leadership roles and has extensive portfolio management experience. Prior to joining Infoblox, he led Cisco’s $20 billion intent-based network business unit, where he oversaw the enterprise, IoT and data center portfolio. Harrell previously led product management for Cisco’s security portfolio. Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles at Intel and strategic consulting roles at early-stage startups.