A survey released by Aryaka and conducted by GatePoint Research reveals a growing demand for simplification, stronger observability, better protection against ransomware, and support for hybrid application environments.
“To gain agility and accommodate rapidly evolving supply chains, transportation and logistics enterprises are relying more on hybrid IT, highly distributed cloud deployments, and GenAI. But these technologies are introducing new network performance, security, and visibility challenges that the sector hasn’t been equipped to effectively manage with legacy infrastructure,” says Ken Rutsky, chief marketing officer at Aryaka. “The industry needs to modernize their approach to networking to mitigate these challenges and successfully move their businesses into the future. Solutions such as Aryaka Unified SASE as a service provides the best path forward via network and security convergence, giving transportation and logistics firms enhanced network performance, security, and observability at scale across their highly distributed, hybrid environments.”
Key takeaways:
· Transportation and logistics organizations indicated that their top networking and network security priority over the next 12 months is simplifying and lowering network costs (70%), followed by enhancing network performance and security visibility (57%) and reducing workload on IT teams (51%). This demonstrates the importance of better operational efficiency and visibility for transportation and logistics firms, with organizations looking to minimize manual oversight and gain more transparent insights into performance and risk.
- Organizations said that staying ahead of cybersecurity threats (81%) is the biggest day-to-day networking challenge, followed by cost-effective modernization (62%) and understaffed IT teams (60%).
- Ransomware and malware threats (77%) are the top network security concern in the industry, with policy enforcement (66%) and remote access control (64%) close behind.
- Only 28% of respondents have started implementing solutions to mitigate GenAI network and security challenges, while 56% are either still evaluating GenAI risks or are unprepared.
- Three quarters of respondents (74%) rely on a hybrid mix of private data centers and cloud environments, making flexibility and connectivity across environments critical.
- Most respondents are actively migrating or planning to migrate legacy apps to the cloud, introducing transitional complexity.
