20 Ways to reduce IT Costs
Regardless of whether you believe we are in an economic downturn, recovering from one or you feel there was never one to begin with, CIOs, CFOs and CEOs across the world will continue to emphasise that business productivity must be increased and costs must be decreased. IT security is such a critical element of the majority of businesses nowadays that it may be hard to conceptualise cost cutting, however, it is definitely achievable and not too difficult to accomplish by putting plans and policies in place to implement a Lean and Green IT security strategy.
Secure Virtualised Desktop Deployment
For many years providing applications to users has proven to be more challenging than initially perceived. After all, it is providing these applications as business enablers making business function regardless of whether that application be email, web, word processing, spreadsheets or some other legacy application.
Understanding Botnets
Arguably, the popularity of Botnets over IRC (Internet Relay Chat – IRC, is a form of real-time messaging or synchronous conferencing over the Internet) stemmed over a decade ago with the EggDrop bot. The ‘EggDrop’ bot (circa 1994) was a non-malicious automated program that could enter an IRC channel and offer various automation and information services to users such as conversation logging, information lookups and replaying IRC command sequences. Eventually EggDrop evolved and was able to connect to other EggDrop bots located on different IRC channels and servers, creating a type of overlay network.
The Attacker Within
As enterprise defenses evolve, so too do the attack vectors leveraged by those seeking to bypass such controls. We are entering an era where attackers are no longer working to punch a hole in the fortress surrounding enterprise IT assets from the outside – they don’t need to - they’re already inside. Thanks to the meteoric rise in the importance of web-based traffic and a laundry list of vulnerabilities in web-aware applications on the desktop, end users are now being turned into enablers for enterprise attacks.
Advanced Security
Leveraging a purpose built architecture capable of high-speed content inspection, the Seccom solution inspects all web traffic in real-time. Content inspection covers not just the URL but also all headers and the full body of all requests and responses. Inspection at this level is vital to ensure security on the web today, which is dominated by dynamic, user-supplied content. Seccom Global’s advanced security implements inspection at four levels – Knowledge of Destination, Payload, Application and Content to ensure that threats are mitigated using increasingly comprehensive scanning techniques.
Your browser wears no clothes
Attackers once viewed browsers as targets for attack. Now, browsers are becoming facilitators of attacks. Browsers are simply a door, which permits access to the data that the attacker is after. The difference here is that a vulnerability does not have to be identified and exploited on the browser itself.
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