The Global Need for Proactive and Holistic Security Technologies
Recent trends in the network security domain show a significantly rising number of malicious threats aimed at securing not just personal and confidential data but also critical enterprise assets. The loss due to threats from viruses, spam, and malware has increased by more than 100 fold over the last ten years. The online crime community has been flourishing mainly due to the lack of proper adaptive and specific security tools employed at both enterprise gateways and residential networks. Moreover, with the current global online community growing at a rapid pace, cyber-crime syndicates are likely to evolve as one of the major restraints for organizational efficiency and productivity in enterprises. To curb the evolution of electronic felony from a simple sporadic problem to a giant platform for crime, it is fundamentally essential to understand the various security pain points in an enterprise network along with a deep understanding of the benefits of emerging technologies in this domain.
Although the plight of enterprises in this regard is understandable, loss due to online crime should not be considered as acceptable. Stringent security measures coupled with proactive preventive techniques need to be adopted and embedded into corporate resources to keep businesses safe.