What are the common security issues with businesses connecting to the Internet?
As organizations increasingly move business operations online, the number and sophistication of threats to the network, servers, and desktops escalate. Security today is not limited to anti-virus solutions and firewalls. The security administrator has the daunting task to detect, prevent, and respond to these threats. Businesses can gather security information from a variety of sources like firewalls, intrusion detection tools, vulnerability scanning tools, and other security checkpoints in the form of alerts. These high numbers of alerts generated by different tools can often guise serious threats. So one has to identify the actual threats and vulnerabilities in the network and secure them. What aspect of security should enterprises now look at? Enterprises should not forget that no two threats look alike, and new and increasingly sophisticated ones surface every day. One needs to go beyond passive security to recognize potential exposures and suspect behavior. One must then prevent t
