With the number of vulnerability exploits increasing; network protection, endpoint protection, and intrusion prevention are therefore becoming business-critical issues. Non-compliance with security regulations can result in exposure to security breaches, leading to theft of confidential data and fraud.

By safeguarding your IT infrastructure, you can protect the critical information assets and financial assets of your customers, employees, and organisation, and successfully meet compliance audit requirements. This in turn strengthens customer confidence and increases revenues.

Network protection, endpoint protection, and intrusion prevention are therefore defence-critical issues. Non-compliance with security regulations, such as the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), can result in exposure to security breaches, leading to unauthorised access, system compromise, loss of sensitive data, and identity theft. This can have serious socio-economic repercussions that can damage international relations and reputation, and thus leave a country in an extremely vulnerable situation.

Implementing IT security processes that enable tactical, pre-emptive action against emerging cyber-threats enable governments and public sector companies to better protect their citizens, critical infrastructures, and defence intelligence, and also restore public trust. Security audit and compliance audit requirements can therefore also be met. Governments and the public sector are continually under pressure to achieve more with less resources in the most cost-efficient way possible. Modernising and automating IT processes and technology infrastructures is one such challenge. The databases and archives of national security infrastructures contain masses of social, economic, and military information – prime targets for cybercriminals or “hacktivists” with grudges to bear.

Network protection, endpoint protection, and intrusion prevention are therefore defence-critical issues. Non-compliance with security regulations, such as the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), can result in exposure to security breaches, leading to unauthorised access, system compromise, loss of sensitive data, and identity theft. This can have serious socio-economic repercussions that can damage international relations and reputation, and thus leave a country in an extremely vulnerable situation. Implementing IT security processes that enable tactical, pre-emptive action against emerging cyber-threats enable governments and public sector companies to better protect their citizens, critical infrastructures, and defence intelligence, and also restore public trust. Security audit and compliance audit requirements can therefore also be met.

The very nature of this environment – where social media-friendly students regularly document everyday life online – makes universities, colleges, training facilities, and schools prime targets for cybercriminals. You may think that your campus network is secure, however if just one private PC that has been compromised by a vulnerability exploit logs on to the campus network, this can compromise your entire IT infrastructure.

With the number of vulnerabilities targeting endpoints increasing, network and endpoint security are critical issues for institutions to address. Compliance regulations such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) help institutions with clear guidelines on how to guard against potential security breaches, theft of student/faculty data, and fraud.

As internet-based communication plays such an important role in this industry, this means that control systems are vulnerable to large scale, coordinated attacks by cybercriminals. This in turn can destabilise economies. As a result of this; network protection, endpoint protection, and intrusion prevention are operation-critical issues.

Non-compliance with security regulations, such as the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and its Cyber Security Standards, can result in exposure to security breaches, leading to unauthorised access, system compromise, and paralysed resources. Therefore, alongside navigating complex regulations, energy and utility providers also need to integrate transparent, reliable, and cost-effective IT security processes in order to safeguard assets and critical infrastructures, meet security audit requirements, and also restore public trust.

Healthcare providers are becoming prime targets for cybercriminals due to the personal, financial, and demographic nature of patient and employee information stored on extensive hospital IT systems. With the number of vulnerability exploits increasing; network protection, endpoint protection, and intrusion prevention are therefore becoming administration-critical issues.

Non-compliance with security regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), can result in exposure to security breaches, leading to unauthorised access, data and identity theft, and fraud. A transparent, reliable, and cost-effective IT security process that aligns with central administration and security audits is therefore crucial to protect privacy and revenues, and thereby restore trust.