The 80/20 Rule for SMALL BUSINESS CYBER SECURITYUndoubtedly, the
cybersecurity challenge is going to result in an increasing focus and
spend on security systems. The question, however, is whether this
will reduce the risk.
Let's start with the corporate data center, the Fort Knox of the
enterprise, and how we guard its crown jewels. Today, the vast bulk
of security spend is on the network — firewalls, IDS/IPS, APT,
monitoring, etc. — and it focuses almost exclusively on the internet
perimeter. These investments account for over $10 billion in
hardware/software spend alone (this amount is doubled or tripled after
accounting for the labor involved in deploying and managing this
gear).
However, if you look at the challenges of securing data centers and
cloud computing, the focus and investments appear completely out of
sync. Almost 80 percent of the computing traffic never leaves the
data center; 20 percent is the ingress and egress. We put the vast
bulk of attention on 20 percent of the risk, leaving the soft chewy
inside of the data center pretty much unattended to. Whether it is
external threats or insidious inside risks, most data center computing
is pretty much wide open
So what are the basic steps companies should absolutely take that are
easy/low cost and are no brainers?
How do employees fit into the picture? Explore these and other issues
at our next CFO Forum on May 9th at EY in ISELIN. PLEASE NOTE OUR
EARLIER START TIME, TO BEAT THE TRAFFIC.
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