Ensure Information Security With Effective Threat Management Solutions

By Author: Martin Lobo
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Though technological advancements have helped enterprises to carry out their business operations easily and quickly, it has brought forth some challenges that enterprises face on a regular basis. If the threat landscape of enterprises is analyzed, it definitely shows that organizations today are in the middle of an ongoing war against external and internal threats. The following are some of these threats.

External Threats involve:

• State-sponsored intrusions and data exfiltrations
• Non-state actors and terrorist groups
• Well-funded and highly-sophisticated organized crime and espionage rings

Internal Threats can be from:

• Disgruntled employees
• Criminals
• Misconfigurations of systems and networks
• User errors and lack of security awareness
• Volumes of regulatory challenges

There is no possibility of these challenges reducing in the near future as new vulnerabilities keep evolving. As per Gartner’s ‘Top Predictions for 2012: Control Slips Away’, the financial impact of cybercrime will grow 10 percent per year through 2016 ...
... due to the continuing discovery of new vulnerabilities.

According to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigative Report 2012, 92% of the data breach incidents were discovered not by the breached organization, but by a third party. This definitely indicates that the majority of organizations do not have an effective defense against either simple or sophisticated vulnerabilities. This is because the current tools are point solutions that address IT security and compliance issues separately. Moreover, the greatest disadvantage of point solutions is that it creates layers of protection, which fails to effectively counter threat to information.

Therefore, what enterprises need is an effective threat management solution that enables end-to-end integration of advanced network monitoring and IT-GRC so that customers have a unified view of both operational security posture and compliance management software. Threat management solutions when implemented help:

• Solve multiple data-centric information security challenges that include advanced persistent threat detection, data leakage, insider threats, malware analysis, continuous controls verification, and network e-discovery.
• Deliver a holistic solution for security and IT-GRC with easy monitoring through an integrated dashboard.
• Provide an end-to-end automation of all enterprise security, compliance, audit, and risk management needs.
• Provide better visibility into threats and risks from multiple sources – providing a complete end-to-end information security solution.

Therefore, an effective threat management solution is very essential for organizations to defend themselves against today's ever-present and pervasive cyber-threats.

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