How secure are the data, applications, systems, and networks your business depends on? If you’re like too many of the executives I talk to, you may believe all is well — but only because you haven’t asked the right questions.
One executive told me recently, “We’re cool; we haven’t had to touch our firewalls in three years.”
Another ticked off all the security products his IT guys have installed — but, it turns out, without ever changing the manufacturers’ default passwords.
Categories: CEO to CEO | Disaster Recovery | Encryption | Firewall | Information Security | Intrusion Detection | Managed Services | Security | Virus Detection
As more and more of your employees use mobile devices, these machines may start out behind your firewall — but they don’t stay there. They move around, to other networks with different firewall rules. Or no firewall at all.
When that mobile device returns to its trusted place behind your firewall, it may carry a cyber-infection that can attack your network from the inside.
The great firewall challenge lies in balancing the tradeoffs between degree of protection, usability, and cost. That balancing act starts with understanding what your firewall actually does.
Categories: CEO to CEO | Disaster Recovery | Information Security | Intrusion Detection | Malware | Mobile Device Management | Security | Virus Detection | Firewall
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