3 Fundamentals for Better Security and IT Management

3 Fundamentals for Better Security and IT Management
Nail these security fundamentals, and your organization will be well-positioned to succeed next year and in the years to come.

As 2019 draws to a close, we'll see plenty of discussion of the year's major security incidents, but few will focus on the foundational missteps that plague most organizations. These disruptions aren't a mystery; in many cases, organizations still make the mistake of implementing new tool after new tool without understanding the nature of their hardware and software assets, where they sit, and what applications and systems are running on them. Throwing more tools at problems of visibility and control will leave any security and IT management strategy inherently flawed.


Let's cut through the clutter. Here are what organizations can do now, and throughout the coming year, to ensure that strong security and IT operations fundamentals are locked in.


1. Address Gaps in VisibilityIT teams simply can't protect what they can't see. Good IT hygiene begins with an accurate, up-to-date, and contextual inventory of an organization's endpoints, including servers, laptops, virtual machines, and cloud instances on the network. But that's just the beginning, and a mass of tools — from asset discovery solutions and security information and event management systems to configuration management databases and beyond — still leads to visibility gaps.


The reason is that a collection of point tools doesn't help organizations see the bigger picture — in other words, to have full visibility. Each product and tool has its own view of the IT environment. Individual tools may offer data that is relatively timely, contextual, or complete. But when IT teams look at this data in aggregate, visibility gaps begin to form.


Here's an example. IT teams might have a tool that gets endpoint detection and response (EDR) telemetry up to the cloud ..

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