Networks are commonly protected by specialized software such as firewalls, anti-virus, and network access control products to prevent unauthorized access and activity. Yet other information technology (IT) infrastructure components, including applications, databases, web servers, directories, and operating systems rely mostly on the security mechanisms that come as part of the product's built-in feature set. Security policies evolve around leveraging passwords and privileges to protect data. But is this really enough, considering that many users such as database administrators (DBAs) and system administrators have elevated privileges—meaning that there's no guarantee that a company's change policies are actually being followed?
Just because your IT organization has deployed security products or IT components with best-in-class security features, it doesn't mean they are properly being used. They may not be used in the way they have been intended, or as often as required, to fully protect your valuable IT assets. As a result, your organization may be at great risk, lulled into a false sense of security that everything has been taken care of. And then you wake up one morning to an emergency phone call, alerting you that your records have been illegally accessed.
In today's compliance-driven world, where failure to protect sensitive financial and customer information means damaged careers, along with lawsuits, fines, and reduced public confidence in your enterprise, IT security needs to be more granular than ever before. Increasingly, it will be important to detect all user actions in the IT infrastructure, and to validate changes against approved change requests within Remedy, Peregrine, or other change management systems. Otherwise, users will be able to circumvent your security policies, procedures, and best practices, regardless of how robust your IT infrastructure components security features are. For this reason, IT staff should consider an IT policy enforcement solution to complement the built-in feature sets of IT components.
Just because your IT organization has deployed security products or IT components with best-in-class security features, it doesn't mean they are properly being used. They may not be used in the way they have been intended, or as often as required, to fully protect your valuable IT assets. As a result, your organization may be at great risk, lulled into a false sense of security that everything has been taken care of. And then you wake up one morning to an emergency phone call, alerting you that your records have been illegally accessed.
In today's compliance-driven world, where failure to protect sensitive financial and customer information means damaged careers, along with lawsuits, fines, and reduced public confidence in your enterprise, IT security needs to be more granular than ever before. Increasingly, it will be important to detect all user actions in the IT infrastructure, and to validate changes against approved change requests within Remedy, Peregrine, or other change management systems. Otherwise, users will be able to circumvent your security policies, procedures, and best practices, regardless of how robust your IT infrastructure components security features are. For this reason, IT staff should consider an IT policy enforcement solution to complement the built-in feature sets of IT components.
