Chances are, if you are an IT professional working in the field of security administrator or network, there was a significant decrease in the number of spam emails you receive from the network a year ago. Report spam to Symantec by 47% during the period August 2010-December 2010 * (Source: Symantec blog-Eric Parks). That’s good news.

The bad news is that spammers will not disappear or go into a legitimate business. They have, in fact, more aggressive and dangerous. Instead of using email as a way of distributing content that is not fun, found the key areas in cyberspace that we use in everyday personal and professional. This article will focus on methods of high-level view and talk about how society affects the typical and basic solutions.
Some of the main reasons why the company focused on the safety of the next generation include:
1. They need an offense and to prevent recurrence.
2. Have compliance requirements and reporting.
3. This was due to customer demand.

Some of the questions that the CIO, Head of Audit and Compliance CISO and CIO to consider are:
What is the cost of its network with a fall in a short period of time?
What is the cost of your critical applications is lost or down in terms of productivity, service and brand awareness?
What would the financial impact of your organization if customer information is lost or lose important information to your competitors?
If the IT manager to do so in the current context, playing a dangerous game until they are victims of violations.

Most companies talk to have a wide network of nationwide deployment, with a certain degree of edge protection. Generally, this means a firewall, which is great in the old Web 1.0 environment. However, the reality is that we simply do not work in this new environment. The workplace is now not only see traffic from social networks (Facebook, Linked In, Twitter, etc …), but also adopted as a business tool. This paved the way for targeted attacks that ex-spammer now available. The use of social media on the market continues to grow, so how do you cope?

One way is to completely clear. If you do not see the value of social media, you can use the filtering mechanism and determine the Web site and / or content categories to block and that should solve your problem. However, there is the case with most businesses today.
We have established that social media is part of and thrive in the workplace. You have a firewall protects the network and not enough? Not really. The excellence zero-day attacks, SQL injection attacks and bot network grew at an alarming rate. McAfee said in a report that identified an average of more than 4 million new malicious executable code or found DAILY!

There are further increases in the existing infrastructure such as data loss prevention and protection against intrusion. Intrusion Protection provides additional security to deal with the threat of attacks “zero-day and keep the bad intentions of the incoming network. Data Loss Prevention is actually the fastest growing segment of the market for web security, and maintain data significant loss or theft of the network by implementing an automated process and map of critical data. This is an issue I will address later in another article.

Another method used in the explosion is frightening is that the target Web application. The websites that host third party applications (advertising is a perfect example) is very risky as third-party applications. Often, a developer of ad (or content types, in this case) is placed on short notice to produce this content or code. His goal is to finish the job and get paid. This often comes at the expense of supporting the code to ensure that no vulnerabilities, so when we organize a third-party applications on your site, opening up for major violations. PBS Kids has recently experienced violations on its website “Curious George” in exactly this way. Not exactly the type of site you wait for the attack.

Fortunately for the company that hosts the content of the other, there is a solution. Some of them are Web application firewall and Web filtering, taking into account the content of the site to ensure that no malicious code embedded in applications or advertising.
the workplace should be expanded for use in homes and other mobile devices are also open to the worms. I recently spoke with a CIO of a leading national catering company who told me that their safety a priority last year was the protection of the perimeter, which means that Wi-Fi restaurants. There are several ways to do it, and his idea is to have Internet access provided by the franchisor, not the company. It worked, but still leaves the franchisor is more open than they have always wanted, though perhaps not the idea that they are still at risk. A solution in this case, the edge protector will host that provides the Data Loss Prevention, intrusion protection and firewall / antivirus needs of individual franchise owners will need. The key is understanding the different technologies available to combat this threat to grow and stay ahead of the bad guys.

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