Posts Tagged ‘risk’

Five Ways DLP Protects Your Company

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

There are people out there who want your company’s data. From nefarious plots to scam the public to simple acts of digital vandalism, your company’s sensitive information is a target. And the threat isn’t just outside your company. Even within your own walls, there’s the possibility of malicious systems use and abuse. Some of the threats are easy to identify, while others are subtle. Given the wide range of risks your company faces, it’s easy to understand why data loss prevention (DLP) – such as Check Point’s endpoint security solutions – should be a crucial part of your IT security infrastructure.

Before you roll out a DLP solution, it helps to know how your company is exposed. Let’s start with five major threats for which DLP solutions provide protection:

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Prepare for an IT Security Audit with Integrated Endpoint Security

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

Almost nothing is as hectic and stressful as getting ready for an IT security audit. You examine systems, run through your checklists and brace yourself for the findings, wondering what emergency projects will wind up on your team’s plate. Instead of readying yourself to react to the results, it’s better to implement measures in advance. Take a hard look at your IT security infrastructure even before your next IT audit is scheduled, and identify the gaps that you need to fill before a sense of urgency arises.

Among the greatest challenges faced by IT security professionals is the need for integration. Disparate solutions, even if they are best of breed, can lead to operational complexity: your team is left to monitor a number of different systems, which can create significant security risks. It’s easier in this type of environment for some incidents to fall through the cracks.

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Top Five Business Reasons to Implement Virtualization

Thursday, October 28th, 2010

It isn’t easy to manage a heterogeneous infrastructure. If your datacenter is packed with disparate systems and cross-platform integrations, you need to maintain a variety of skill sets in your IT department – and it could take multiple groups to identify and resolve problems with your infrastructure. It’s easy for even the most easily managed problems to become taxing for your organization. A virtualized infrastructure – using Citrix XenServer, for example – can take the sting out of cross-platform management.

It’s a business decision first, so here are the top five business reasons to move to a virtualized infrastructure:

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A Single View of Security Events

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

A disparate security infrastructure can cause some events to fall through the cracks. When this happens, you run the risk that a breach can turn into real damage, and you lose the opportunity to fix the problem. An integrated, single view of your security environment makes event monitoring more effective, and gives you the tools you need to keep sensitive data where it belongs – inside your company’s walls.

Segmented security solutions can be highly effective … in the areas that they cover. The only problem with targeted security event management solutions is that they can leave some areas of your infrastructure exposed, and these cracks in your data security infrastructure can be exploited to steal your data, damage your customers and ruin your brand. There is no substitute for a comprehensive security event management solution that gives you a total view of the activity in your enterprise.

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Are You Over-Powering Your Virtualized Infrastructure?

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Your energy use may be higher than necessary, and it could be putting your equipment at risk. This probably seems counterintuitive for a virtual server environment; after all, a reduction in equipment should lead to a reduction in power. Yet, after virtualizing, you may have energy inefficiencies relative to your underlying physical infrastructure. This provides an opportunity for continued cost savings and risk mitigation, by optimizing power consumption for your newly architected virtual server environment.

The primary measure of energy efficiency in your datacenter is power usage effectiveness (PUE), reflecting total energy consumption relative to your physical equipment footprint. In a physical server infrastructure, energy consumption and costs are distributed over a larger set of hardware, much of which has loner latency periods. This drives a lower PUE. The equipment utilization efficiencies of a virtual server infrastructure, however, lead to less dormancy because of consolidation. Energy consumption relative to underlying equipment thus increases, elevating PUE.

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Five Reasons to Lock Down Your Endpoints

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Do we really need to discuss the need for endpoint security? Of course not … at this point in the IT industry’s maturity, the need to protect your infrastructure is incredibly clear. With a threat environment that changes continually, though, it’s worth revisiting, from time to time, why you need endpoint security. After all, changes in the nature of the risk have a direct effect on how you protect your company.

Here are five reasons to take another look at why you need to lock down your endpoints:

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Volatile Energy Prices: The Secret Datacenter Tax

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

Green IT’s perceived importance rises and falls with energy costs. Low prices cause IT departments to turn their attention to other challenges. This approach, however, exposes your organization to financial risk: you don’t know when the next spike in energy prices will come. Implement energy-efficient datacenter technology now, and you’ll have a natural advantage over your competitors when the market takes an unfavorable turn.

Unlike many IT investments, the move to environmentally friendly and energy efficient solutions isn’t just a way to lower your operating costs, though this is an ongoing benefit. Rather, the principal advantage is a reduction in expense volatility. To see this dynamic in play, all you need to do is look at the periodic pain caused by the energy market.

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