Businesses battling continuing waves of security threats may need to add new weapons to their arsenals. In addition to quick patching, effective firewall policies, strict remote-user security rules, and keeping antivirus software up to date, businesses should look at intrusion-prevention applications such as those offered by Cisco Systems, Internet Security Systems, Network Associates, Platform Logic, and Sana Security. These applications don't rely on threat signatures and software policies to thwart attacks. Instead, they attempt to block new attacks long before antivirus, intrusion-detection, and firewall systems and policies can be updated.
Want a safe prediction for the new year? Here's one: Companies will face new threats that no one expects, plus many variations of the old threats. Information-security pros aren't willing to predict much progress in the battle against worms, viruses, and other security threats. But there's one thing nearly all of them do agree on: Businesses must continue to devote time, money, and personnel to keep their systems as safe as possible.
To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.
By combining resources and expertise, the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium will offer a blueprint for how industries can adapt to an AI-dominated future.
IT leaders should heed the guidance of cybersecurity insurance providers who think businesses should prioritize security education, incident preparedness, regular internal audits, and ongoing vulnerability scanning and patching.
