In an instant all the costly work done 'securing the perimeter' from outside infections is undermined by the fact that a member of staff can just walk straight into the office and plug their PDA straight into the network, irrespective of what it...
The network will keep tabs on assets like servers and switches, retaining a database of current hardware and software configurations. Given the growing scope of threats and the limitations of current security architectures, a new model is warranted...
Companies who spend excessively on securing the perimeter, for example, may not have realised the greatest risk to their business is posed by the loss of intellectual property from within, as staff ferry portable devices in and out of the company...
He added: "The controls which are in place in terms of securing and auditing communications are all still there, they're just applied to a lot more users now and all those messages coming from AOL and MSN users are treated the same way.
Naturally, the method needs to be repeatable because threats will change and controls therefore need to be reviewed. As Dave Martin, principle information security consultant at LogicaCMG, puts it: "If you haven't undertaken risk analysis, then how...
We invest up to 90 per cent of our security resources on controls and monitoring against internal threats. Employees and insiders are bigger threats to corporate security than external threats such as denial of service attacks or malware.
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