Eight Strategies to Strengthen Network Security
Tips to help businesses and other organizations protect critical information assets traveling through their networks.
Generally, organizations should seek opportunities for the greatest overall increase in network security with the least amount of effort or expense. Encrypting network traffic is a first line of defense for protecting sensitive or confidential information sent over third-party networks, thus reducing some of the most significant security or privacy-related vulnerabilities due to negligent employees, unstable operating systems and other potential causes of a data loss or theft.
It is interesting that our research found that encryption is viewed as too complex, expensive and not compatible with some other networking and security practices. This is not grounded in fact and is often based on an outdated notion about network encryption. There have been enormous strides in making encryption solutions for data in motion and at rest painless for end users. Many of these solutions are cost effective, thus yielding a strong ROI or total cost of ownership (TCO) result for business and government organizations.
Dr. Larry Ponemon is chairman and founder of Ponemon Institute.
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