From: GCN
By William Jackson
The threat landscape for government enterprises is evolving rapidly and the stakes are ratcheting higher as public and private sector organizations become more dependent on distributed computing resources and remote access.
As a result, the focus in cybersecurity is moving away from the perimeter and the point security tools traditionally deployed there and toward the use of analytics and monitoring to provide visibility and rapid response.
“Advancements have introduced thousands of applications, threats and vulnerabilities into communications networks, which are increasingly hidden from traditional network security devices,” the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee said in a 2013 report to the president.
At the same time, both data and its users are more likely to reside outside the enterprise today. And targeted multistage attacks are becoming better at penetrating perimeter defenses. “Solely securing network perimeters is no longer an effective method to address dispersed computing platforms, greater worker mobility and social media,” the NSTAC report concluded.
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