Amsterdam – 08. December 2014
Companies are increasingly faced with security threats, while delivering the latest technologies to try to catch up. The playing field of the IT person undergoes a lot of changes. GFI has put the five key challenges of recent times in a row:
1. Technical support to new devices
The market is flooded with new devices; of tablets, phablets, smartphones and ultrabooks to wearable and embedded devices. Devices with a standard operating system are easy to support. Of a standard operating system, it becomes a bit more complicated are used as devices which are not provided. IT professionals will be forced to determine how they can provide the necessary technical support.
2. BYOD practice is becoming increasingly difficult
BYOD existed for some time, but with the advent of the above (different) devices, it is becoming increasingly difficult to implement a BYOD policy in a good way. Employees and their managers expect that they can be used directly for the work of their newly purchased acquisitions. Protecting data, implement strong authentication and provide access to the network should therefore be a priority. With guest networks, remote portals and extranet applications companies come a long way. Although these devices are not from the company itself, however, companies should also pay attention to an appropriate security policy. To help achieve this, various security applications available. For example, to ensure that employees patching and updating their devices as soon as they connect to the corporate network.
3. Smaller budgets and fewer employees
Companies are struggling with ever-shrinking budgets and where possible cutbacks. This should be more work done with fewer people. Both applications and employees must therefore be assessed on quality. Is an application example multifunctional? Do workers need additional training? To ensure that the IT department continues to perform well and most of it is taken from a small budget, companies should continue to look critically at their applications and employees.
4. Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)
The phenomenon of “Advanced persistent threat”, ie an APT attack, has existed for several years, but recently taking very serious proportions. An APT attack means that cybercriminals a network scan continuously, until they see an entrance to steal data from the network. This can take days to weeks. Once the criminals have found an entry, for example, they steal vital business information such as financial data. Companies must, therefore, continuously to scan the network, and to carry out the latest patches, so that a possible attack can be prevented.
5. Data Loss Prevention
Nowadays companies have huge amounts of data, which amounts only increase. This operating data is extremely important for business intelligence purposes, so companies, for example, understand certain buying patterns of customers to serve them more effectively. Operating data may also be used, for example, judicial- or compliance purposes. Moreover somhttp: //www.lewiswire.com/nl/lewiswire/GFI-Software/c/mige companies even legally required to keep certain data for a specified period. To prevent data loss, it is necessary that files are stored on a central server rather than on individual hard drives or personal devices that are made regular backups and backups that are stored in several places.
“The IT world is constantly changing. IT administrators do their best to keep up with developments, but also have to deal with risks and challenges associated with these developments, “said Sergio Galindo, General Manager at GFI Software. “Instead, there are plenty of opportunities to the latest developments just before you leave work. It is up to the IT administrator to properly handle this to go and look at this. “
About the company
About GFI GFI Software develops high quality IT solutions for small and medium businesses to about 1,000 users. GFI supports more than 200,000 companies worldwide with solutions such as network security, web management, anti-spam, patch and vulnerability management, faxing and filing. GFI products are easy to use, install and manage, and support companies to monitor, manage and secure their networks with minimal administrative effort. GFI is a channel-oriented organization with thousands of partners worldwide. GFI is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has won several awards and prizes organization. More information about GFI can be found at http://www.gfi.nl
Distribution Partners GFI Software in the Benelux. Portland Europe and DCC Netherlands BV
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