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Hardening your Systems is Job #1

Hardening your Systems is Job #1

by Crystal Miller

Hardening your security configurations is job #1 in preventing breaches and detecting and correcting any subsequent changes that weaken them. Yet in complex corporate IT settings, it’s easy to understand how basic steps to security are overlooked. Especially when everything you are doing is a #1 priority. In a 2011 June report entitled “Perceptions About Network Security,” [...]

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Retiring the Perimeter-Centric Approach to Security

Retiring the Perimeter-Centric Approach to Security

by Crystal Miller

It is clearly time to retire the perimeter-centric approach to security. Actually it’s hard to believe there was ever a time when data protection could be managed by putting up the equivalent of an electrific fence around the perimeter to keep the bad guys out. Despite large investments in security defenses, the reality is organizations are still finding their systems regularly compromised.  With insider attacks, data [...]

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