At this very instance every organisation is at war and the battle ground is the evolving digital network you have worked so hard to build. Malware, zero-hour attacks**, and hackers all work quietly under the cover of secrecy, their sole aim is to disrupt your business using the cutting edge of technology. Your records, your clients information and sensitive business data is there for the taking.
** A zero-hour attack exploits previously unknown vulnerabilities in your operating system or applications, one that developers have not had time to address and patch.
Can you stop all the breaches? The answer is NO.
A successful defence policy accepts that attacks will occur, however it has the ability to counter act with an intelligent solution – in real time. A comprehensive modern approach requires up to the second intelligence, visibility, and flexibility in order to detect and effect an immediate response against advanced threats.
In laymans terms, your security should be able to pick up threats but also come back with analytical reports and data allowing you to determine the best course of action at any given point of time. Blue Coat’s new Security Analytics Platform is one new approach that aims to deliver just that.
A traditional blocking technique by itself is simply not effective against advanced attacks.
92% of breaches were perpetrated by outsiders*
84% of attacks took just seconds, minutes or hours to compromise the network*
78% of attacks took weeks, months or even a year to discover*
*Verizon Business, 2013
With the invent of private cloud solutions, the importance of total control over your security becomes dreadfully clear. Private cloud services are not typical exposed to general internet traffic, although they can be, they do need to be set up differently. It is often not configured to protect resources against attacks originating from within the organisation itself. An example is a human resource system should be architected based on access granted to relevant users and not the entire organisation.
More than 200,000 new malware samples appear every day, according to Kapersky Lab.
There are many vendors out there dedicated to this very complex multi faceted problem, research firm Gartner defines five styles of defence techniques and recommends employing two of them based on your circumstances along with traditional forms of security such as an anti-virus software to form a sound basis of protection. Vendor partnership is becoming more prevalent in order to match and combine styles of protection, which aims to eliminate the downside of a single vendor integrated solution.
“…Your success lies in good competent engineers and you get that through applied training no matter how great your setup is…”
In any case a layered approach is best however regardless of strategy taken, there is also a necessary requirement for training on traditional incumbent products. Your success lies in good competent engineers and you get that through applied training no matter how great your setup is. The landscape is dynamic, it’s ever shifting and you still need to keep it running, patched, and most importantly – operational.
Red Education is the Asia Pacific ATC (Authorised Training Centre) for many IT security vendors, providing training with leading security vendors such as Blue Coat, Check Point, F5 Networks, Infoblox, Palo Alto Networks, and Sophos we regularly provide classroom, virtual and on site training to help you master today and tomorrow’s security challenges.
For more information please visit www.rededucation.com or contact us on [email protected] to discuss your requirements.
Viet Nguyen – Marketing and Training Coordination Manager