For the past few months, our team has been hard at work to research and build our latest Application Usage and Threat Report (see more from Matt Keil on the report here, here and here). Some of the most interesting data that we uncovered addressed the security of Internet social networking applications:
This research suggests that the old network security model of “hard and crunchy on the outside, soft and gooey on the inside” (shore up your perimeter defenses with firewalls and you’re good-to-go) is no longer sufficient. With internal threats dominant on a network, security must sharply focus on data center applications and the monitoring of internal traffic.
If you’d like to learn more about the best practices to secure data center applications, check out my latest SecurityWeek article.
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