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Often called the holy grail of IT security, this has long been a goal of security and infrastructure vendors. Much progress has been made over the last few years, but buyers should pressure their vendors and partners to do more to help their organizations consolidate necessary security technologies into the infrastructure.
If you feel like your security budget is constantly ballooning without truly reducing your risks, you may be working harder—instead of smarter. Do your security products truly complement one another? Are you deploying dozens of new products each quarter to satisfy individual risks or regulatory requirements with little thought about long-term strategy? To truly change the answer to these questions, more organizations must employ an ecosystem-minded security model.
Security is always a point of friction when it gets in the way of user convenience. IT departments and their vendors must look for painless risk mitigation strategies, making seamless and transparent security their consistent goal in employing new technologies and processes.
Security controls are not very useful if they’re siloed off from each other and from the data they’re meant to protect. The most secure organizations leverage tools that turn security data into actionable information and keep tabs on the content that IT is entrusted to protect.
Perimeter security isn’t necessarily dead, per se—it’s just in need of some serious augmentation. Security experts truly believe that information-centric security (things like DLP, encryption and the like) are necessary to cover all the risks—especially considering the fact that users are accessing information from more devices than ever, both inside and outside the network, and in the cloud as well.
The threats to your environment and your data don’t stay the same. So why should your security policies and practices? To keep up with the polymorphic nature of today’s threats, organizations need to model their security practices around a dynamic and risk-based strategy and employ technologies that can assess and mitigate new risks on the fly.
One of the most crucial ways to achieve the goal of dynamic and risk-based security is by leveraging highly adaptive security technology. Today’s crop of tools has progressed by leaps and bounds to better spot risks via behavior-based algorithms. Do your homework and choose accordingly.
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