Computing infrastructure today is highly versatile and this has many benefits for businesses. Unfortunately, it also has downsides; use that infrastructure unintelligently and costs can get out of control. This is especially true as the use of both public and private cloud computing increases; it is like an all-you-can-eat restaurant – consume without thinking and [...]

There are a number of advantages when end users do not have local administrative rights on their Windows desktops. These include: – Less chance for malware to successfully attack the system. – Reduce chance for the end user to make unauthorized changes to the system. – Better control on which applications are installed and used [...]

End point lockdown is not a new practice. There are a number of advantages when endpoints are locked down so that end users do not have full administrative access on their systems. In general, an environment that is more locked down has less changes and less variation from a known good configuration. This secures the [...]

How Application Intelligence and Control enables network security in the wake of Web 2.0, Cloud Computing and Mobility. Firewalls are a long-standing tradition in network topography,implemented to help restrict unauthorized access to the corporate domain. They were originally designed to block network-layer threats. And whereas some have become more multidimensional by integrating additional security layers—such [...]

For long the backbone of most enterprise’s network security infrastructure, traditional stateful packet inspec-tion firewalls are essentially blind to modern applications and threats. This condition has put many IT/Security managers in a precarious position. Should they attempt to utilize coarse control capabilities currently at their disposal, blocking ports or entire protocols just to eliminate access [...]