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Next Generation Defense-in-Depth
Cymbel is an IT Security and Compliance Security and Solutions Provider enabling clients to reduce the security and compliance risks created by changing business needs, technology, threats, compliance requirements, and the tough economy.
While every organization is different, in general the forces of change are contributing to increased risks:
- Business needs – require better collaboration among staff and with customers, partners, and suppliers
- Technology – especially social networking if you have employees under the age of 30
- Threats – have shifted to criminal financial gain: credit card and identity theft, funds transfer fraud, trade secrets theft
- Compliance – New regulations including Red Flag Rules, Mass 201 CMR 17, ARRA/HITECH
- Economy – Recession requires we do more with less
In response, our approach to defense-in-depth has changed to meet our customer’s changing requirements: Solutions focused on users, applications, and data.
So while innovation is needed, Next Generation solutions must also consolidate functions and simplify administration to reduce costs and improve visibility. Benefits include:
- Reduce IT Operations costs
- Improve IT alignment with business needs
- Increase IT Service availability and performance
- Reduce IT Security risks
- Reduce the costs of meeting regulatory compliance requirements
- Network – Next Generation Firewall (as defined by Gartner), Data Loss Prevention, Web Application Firewall
- Host – Data Loss Prevention, Anti-Malware, Encryption, Email Security
- Database – Host based database protection
- Data-at-rest – Data Loss Prevention
- Directory Services – Well designed and maintained to provide the foundation for all user-based controls
- Strong Authentication – Reduced per user costs, increasing number of users
- Log management and unified IT Service Management – More integrated approach improves IT service, reduces security risks, and reduces IT operations costs to free up money to support innovation
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