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It’s getting more and more difficult to find one-size-fits-all Information Technology, and perhaps the area where this is the truest is in enterprise security.
It’s not even enough to classify networks by the longtime descriptor of “SMB” or “Enterprise.” A business with 10 employees can have a million customers—which would make it a small business with a set of Fortune 500 IT requirements.
Businesses split their technology between their own, internal data centers and hosted solutions. They split between Windows and Linux; desktop endpoints, mobile endpoints and virtual endpoints.
And just when the industry starts tempting you to believe security has finally caught up, along comes information like this, which was posted just this month by the University of Hawaii:
“The University of Hawaii at Manoa today began notifying approximately 53,000 individuals listed in a system database, housed on a computer server used by the Parking Office, that a recent security breach may have exposed personal information— including approximately 40,870 Social Security numbers and 200 credit card numbers.”
Universities are institutions that not only lead the way in teaching about IT security, they lead the way in many cases in developing IT security -- including best practices. How this university wound up grappling with a breach of this size will be one for the auditors to figure out. For now, for the purposes of this month’s CRNtech, let’s just look at it like this:
Network security is never “one-size-fits-all” anymore, and learning that the hard way can be a lot more uncomfortable than a tight pair of pants.
For this month’s roundup, we looked at three separate networkfocused security solutions to examine what types of IT networks might best use them in handling the constantly changing threat landscape. We liked them all, and found that VARs could deliver them into customer enterprises with nice value.
NEXT: Trend Micro Deep Security 7.0
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How To Sell IT Security Services To Your Customers Cyberattacks can cost a business thousands, even millions, of dollars, and can deal a death blow to some. Here's how IT solution providers can help guard against malicious attacks. |
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Cybersecurity Experts: What They Know Could Scare You A recent report based on interviews with security experts in government, business and academia finds more than half in agreement that a worldwide arms race is taking place in cyberspace. |
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