When it comes time to expand your digital network to keep pace with expanding needs, you have to address the growth of your network security requirements at the same time. The security climate of today is wrought with threats, hackers, and viruses—all out to get you. If you aren’t properly protected against their advances, well, your digital network and business, in general, will be at risk.
The Need for a Strong Security Fabric
The best way to protect yourself against these intruders is to implement a strong security fabric, one that is impenetrable. An open, end-to-end security fabric allows businesses to address the full range of challenges they face. This security fabric should be able to adapt and scale to changing network demands.
With it, you’d be able to distribute, orchestrate, and enforce policies across different domains on a consistent basis. It would apply these policies to staff in your branches and remote locations. It should provide protection without compromising network performance in any way, broadly cover the organization as a whole as it grows and evolves, and take automated, intelligent action as a cohesive system.
A security fabric acts as a unified system that shares between components. It provides essential visibility under quickly changing network conditions, which allows it to make rapid and coordinated responses to cyber threats. Because it’s interconnected, all elements quickly exchange threat intelligence and can then coordinate action. If a threat is trying to infiltrate, it can launch synchronized defenses based on real-time global and local threat intelligence. All in all, a security fabric will remove malware, isolate affected devices, update rules, and push out new policies.
The Components of a Strong Security Fabric
1) Broad: A security fabric must cover your whole organization. What good is it if it only covers a small section? With this broadness, you can enjoy visibility across your entire infrastructure, including endpoints, network elements, the cloud, the data center, IoT devices, etc. A broad deployment such as this, along with in-depth visibility helps see internal traffic and devices, aids in compliance, and prevents unauthorized access.
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2) Powerful: A security system isn’t effective if it isn’t powerful, and companies can’t afford to trade protection for performance. If your security fabric is boosted with horsepower, it will increase performance and scalability to ensure your security measures don’t hinder productivity in your network.
3) Automated: When an attack can bring your network down within minutes, having deep visibility isn’t enough. A security fabric should take fast and coordinated action against threats by coordinating and synchronizing responses. If it’s automated, you know your network is protected.
A comprehensive security fabric is your best bet to stay ahead and protect yourself from the cyber threats of today. A good one will give you deep visibility into your IT operations and infrastructure. Additionally, it should be automated, responding to attacks; powerful to keep production going; and broad to ensure your entire organization is covered from head to toe.
