The evolving role of network engineers in the age of AI
As the worlds of networking and security increasingly collide, the role of network engineers is also evolving. IT teams are now on the frontlines of an organization's cybersecurity, monitoring what’s happening across traffic, users, devices to spot issues and threats early, and act before they escalate.
Director of Digital Experience Product Management at GTT.
When network and security architectures are integrated well, complexity decreases while performance increases, security gets stronger and latency lowers; and overall, day-to-day operations become simpler.
With better visibility and AI-driven automation, organizations can spot and contain threats even faster, improve oversight across users, devices and applications, and build a more agile platform for digital transformation, including cloud adoption, branch modernization and hybrid working.
Perhaps the most significant evolution is that the old “detect, diagnose, fix” workstream for a network engineer is being replaced with a more proactive model. Aided by AI, networks can now learn...
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