Interested in Reducing Your Organizations Exposure to Attack?
 by: Sam A. Brown


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If you're looking for security management capabilities designed to reduce your exposure to attack and better manage IT Security within your organization, you're not alone. According to the Computer Security Institute (CSI), "cybercrime is costing companies more than twice as much as it did in 2006." Keeping your business systems, critical data and customer and employee information secure and confidential is a growing challenge for organizations and security managers. Being able to implement integrated vulnerability, security, and incident management capabilities for the entire enterprise is paramount in importance.

The many layers of security management continue to evolve as corporations and governments face a number of uncertainties. From keeping systems up and running and maintaining business continuity, to protecting critical and sensitive data, security management spans the spectrum of viruses and targeted attacks to identity theft and regulatory compliance mandates. The need for integrated enterprise-wide security has never been more imperative or necessary, especially with the increasing need for wireless an remote access. In addition to the myriad of outside influences on the security posture of your organization, insider attacks are now as common as viruses and other threats. Paired with the misuse and abuse of corporate assets, internet access and unauthorized access to sensitive information, security management teams have their hands full.

As such, many organizations today are taking proactive steps to implement robust IT security, effective endpoint and network security policies, comprehensive vulnerability discovery, mitigation and prevention strategies. The challenge for IT Security professionals is not easy, but certainly achievable. Protecting sensitive data and addressing compliance requirements can be demanding of time, resources and investments.

Fortunately, there are a number of products on the market today that address the challenges associated with centralized security management. Implementing integrated endpoint and network vulnerability assessments, effectively managing patch management and conducting security reporting through one interface, is surprisingly quite feasible. Leveraging security management tools such as eEye Digital Security's REM Security Management Console, not only reduces your exposure to attack, but minimizes the typically required time to manage multi-platform network and application policies as well as provide enterprise wide security reporting. Centralizing your organization's incident management procedures and prioritizing your change management and patch management policies is efficiently manageable through one seamless security management console.

Harnessing the power of eEye's award-winning products, Blink® Client Security and Retina® Network Security Scanner, REM is a single-unit rack-mount appliance addressing the most critical needs of IT Security Managers today. The security management console identifies and manages system and application vulnerabilities, plus thwarts client side attacks reducing the internet security response time. With integrated vulnerability, attack and policy information provided by Retina and Blink, the integrated REM console provides metrics and graphical representations of the security landscape within your organization as a whole. For more information on REM Security Management Console or any of the IT Security Products mentioned here, please visit http://www.eeye.com.


About The Author
Sam Brown follows technology movements in IT Security and Security Management.