Practices

Each day, forward-thinking organizations reinvent how they conduct business by adopting Internet-based business models. The results? Competitive advantage, new sources of revenue, and optimized business processes.

But Internet connectivity without appropriate security can compromise the very gains in productivity that make today’s organizations more profitable. In the past, security threats from external sources were slow-moving and easy to defend against. In today’s connected environment, outbreaks spread across the world in a matter of minutes, and security systems must react instantly.

Increasingly, security attacks target browser-based business applications. Because these dynamic, complex custom applications may not have antivirus signatures or regularly available application patches, one breach in security can expose assets, trigger legal liability, severely damage customer confidence, and negatively affect profitability.

In some industries, such as medical and financial services, governments now regulate data privacy. Point solutions can protect data privacy at network endpoints, but point solutions do not provide insight and visibility into all areas of the network. End-to-end security visibility gives security managers the information they need to implement best practices all along the network and ensure compliance with government requirements.

In today’s environment, it is imperative to align information technology (IT) processes with business objectives. Because the network touches all parts of the business infrastructure, an integrated, network-wide security solution is uniquely positioned to help businesses meet their objectives.

Organizational Benefits

Data protection is a concern for all organizations. With security threats increasing in number and sophistication, organizations want to gain protection, control, and visibility over their security systems, preventing incidents and threats that disrupt productivity, impact customer relationships, and erode profits. Government regulations concerning the protection of information also add to the growing emphasis on data protection.

Organizations want to align security policy to their business requirements, while having the agility to adapt easily as needs change. Integrating security into the network enables security professionals to control, deploy, and enforce policies according to business requirements, remaining secure yet flexible and agile.

An integrated approach improves efficiencies throughout the organization and enables greater employee productivity. IT departments can proactively respond to incidents and mitigate threats, rather than reacting to individual threats as they occur.

A systems approach to data protection results in improved value of your investment over time, because it's more flexible and enables security policy to more quickly change and keep up with changing organizational objectives.

How Nexus Can Assist Your Organization

Nexus offers a self-defending network that uses the network to identify, prevent, and adapt to threats from internal and external sources. It simplifies the security environment through tight integration, comprehensive security, increased end-to-end visibility, and improved total cost of ownership. All components of the network - the secure network platform, advanced services and technologies, and operational management and policy control - play a part in securing the networked environment.

Resources

Below are helpful documents you can view regarding Data Protection:

• Sustaining Compliance (PDF)
• Security Across the Enterprise: Protect and Empower Your Branches (PDF)