- New Strategies for a Changed Threat Landscape
- Cisco Systems
Please note that this paper has been superseded by the paper, "Threat Defense for Borderless Networks."
However, the rather extensive discussion remains below.
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Network security threats have the potential to significantly impede productivity, disrupt business and operations, and result in loss of information - which can lead to financial losses and potential non-compliance. Hackers continue to develop new techniques to gain access to information, for their own financial gain.
The evolution and complexity of threats must be addressed with proactive IT security strategies that maintain business continuity, provide infrastructure wide threat visibility and protection, and simplify day-to-day network management. The entire security infrastructure - network, systems, and management - must work in concert to proactively defend against a wide array of threats, and reduce the mean time to respond and mitigate during an event. Threat control solutions from Cisco deliver comprehensive and proactive network defense, streamlined policy and system management, and business continuity.
However, the rather extensive discussion remains below.
Go to Comments/Discussion
Network security threats have the potential to significantly impede productivity, disrupt business and operations, and result in loss of information - which can lead to financial losses and potential non-compliance. Hackers continue to develop new techniques to gain access to information, for their own financial gain.
The evolution and complexity of threats must be addressed with proactive IT security strategies that maintain business continuity, provide infrastructure wide threat visibility and protection, and simplify day-to-day network management. The entire security infrastructure - network, systems, and management - must work in concert to proactively defend against a wide array of threats, and reduce the mean time to respond and mitigate during an event. Threat control solutions from Cisco deliver comprehensive and proactive network defense, streamlined policy and system management, and business continuity.
This is a great update on the range of threats that are encountered in today's networks and IT in general. And, unfortunately, the number of and types of threats are expanding exponentially.
I really like the fact that this paper not only details myriad threats in a number of categories, but it also suggests methods for mitigating those threats.
Not surprisingly, since the paper is by Cisco, most of the recommendations involved Cisco's solution set. Nevertheless, it sets a great benchmark regardless of your exact choice of equipment supplier.