CIO opinion
CIO OPINION
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DATA IS NOT JUST
THE DOMAIN OF THE LARGE
ENTERPRISE BUT A REALITY
FOR EVERY SIZE AND TYPE
OF ORGANISATION.
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Mohammad Jamal Tabbara, Senior Systems Engineer –
UAE and Channel at Infoblox
No silver security bullet
but unified defence
approach is best
Mohammad Jamal Tabbara,
Senior Systems Engineer – UAE
and Channel at Infoblox, says
organisations should not be
fooled into thinking there is
a ‘silver bullet’ for preventing
cyberattacks but instead look
to implement a unified defence.
E
nterprises of all sizes are falling victim to very determined malicious
actors whose motivations range from financial gain to government
sponsored campaigns. The threats are not limited to commercial
enterprises but have significant impact on civilian and non-civilian
government agencies.
The nature of what organisations must address has changed
dramatically over the past decade. The threat surface has expanded
significantly, the nature of the threats is evolving at an unprecedented
rate and the complexity of what makes up an organisation has grown.
Organisations have migrated from having a tightly controlled network
with endpoints and devices provided by the company to one where the
very definition of an endpoint and device is changing, driven by the
proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), organisational policies to
allow employees to bring their own devices on the network (BYOD) and
the adoption of private and public cloud deployments.
The definition of a network has changed too; it is no longer a
walled garden but an amorphous structure where users can access
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