Security Products: Get in Shape

Get in Shape: Seven essentials for enterprise security success

by Philip Lieberman 

Security Products    

In a year in which some of the biggest names in both physical and logical security have been named and shamed for security lapses and subsequent breaches, reality is bearing down hard on the IT executive. New threats and risks seem to have bombarded enterprise networks at an unrelenting pace. If your organization is one of the many without a comprehensive, multifaceted security program, now is the time to take your head out of the sand. Antivirus programs and firewalls alone no longer cut it. Hackers and malicious insiders long ago figured out that these elementary safeguards are about as effective as a suit of armor made of tissue paper.

Convincing Unbelievers

Unfortunately, it can be difficult to convince the organizations most vulnerable to cybercrime that they even have a problem. The most oblivious among them have no idea that they may already be in the clutches of a hacker because they don’t have the tools or processes in place to properly investigate the anomalies in system and network behavior that raise red flags.