As this infographic shows, expanding interconnectivity between organizations and the fast-accelerating mobility of your employees means your IT infrastructure vulnerabilities are increasing quickly.
These days, your end-users have usually become the weakest link in your data security chain, so attacks are shifting from the server side to the client side, notably to mobile devices like smartphones.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve taken a look at what you can do to boost your organization’s IT security. But it occurs to me that maybe I’ve put the cart before the horse.
So I’m going to spend the next few weeks delving into the sort of threats your business’s IT infrastructure faces. And I’m going to start with data breaches and the most recent big-headline example: Zappos (parent company is Amazon.com), which last month admitted it suffered a data breach that compromised 24 million customer accounts.
The right network management capabilities will provide the feedback you need to eliminate bottlenecks and IT failures while also enabling your network’s ability to deliver data, voice, wireless, Internet, and video services.
Which is why adequate performance management , trending and capacity planning , protocol analysis/ fault isolation , and onsite/remote network health monitoring have become so essential.
Thanks to virtualization , network dynamics are changing — fast.
Server virtualization consolidates resources on fewer physical servers in ways that require distributed workloads to communicate with each other. This boosts utilization of servers, but it also increases — and changes the nature of — network traffic.
Are you suffering from security fatigue? Find yourself getting irritated when your IT folks bring up yet another security issue? You’re not alone. Lately I’ve been witnessing a good deal of security fatigue in the executive suite, and I’m not surprised.
Truth is, security remains a never-ending process. The easier we make it to move data, the more vulnerable it is to loss or theft. In fact, our Page 1 story this issue on Data Loss Prevention is all about how easy it is for too many employees to make off with sensitive, proprietary information.
