Pen, paper and ink alone do not make a novel. In the same way, anti-malware, firewalls and SIEM tools alone do not make an enterprise secure. Too many organizations think that buying lots of security solutions and deploying them will make them secure. However, just having a security tool running does not make an enterprise secure. Let’s take a look beyond tools to the way security teams can take a more holistic approach.
Why Enterprise Security Tools Aren’t Enough
Having some kind of digital defense is better than having nothing, and most security solution providers have some very sensible vanilla set-up solutions. However, these security systems are nothing more than tools, usually focused only on a narrow segment of the risks an enterprise faces.
Those tools can’t work alone. Their makers do know this: over the years most of them have become very good at producing data feeds that can be fed into SIEM and other tools in an attempt to weld different views together to spot more subtle forms of attack.
Even this approach is incorrect. For example, I have circuit breakers in my house to protect my family from an electrical fault; however, if I ignore a frayed or worn-out cable, there’s still a high risk of damage. I cannot just assume the safety measures will protect me from all ills. In the world of enterprise security, using software that is past its end-of-life date and no longer capable of being patched generates huge risks for the business.
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