Every data breach impacts your business negatively – you have to protect your data – to prevent damage to reputation or bottom line – but you also have to maintain appropriate levels of access.
Increasing regulations and penalties – almost every industry is enforcing some level of security standards.
Security issues are both internal AND external- How do you protect against the well-intentioned employee who mishandles information as well as the malicious outsider.
IT security used to rely on a perimeter-based approach. But in today’s environment it’s hard to define the perimeter. Web-based applications improve the productivity of your employees, partners and customers, but they also expose you to risk. A service oriented infrastructure, offers extraordinary flexibility and efficiency, but it forces you to re-think data security. It used to be that you could protect your data with a perimeter, but now you have to secure that data wherever it resides and when it’s in motion. Businesses are looking for comprehensive capabilities for monitoring, access management and encryption that can be integrated to help address information security across the enterprise.
