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In IT to “Support and Defend”: Why Cybersecurity Is a Battlefield and Microsegmentation is Your Friend

Cloud Insidr 2015-12-29 Leave a Comment

In IT to “Support and Defend”: Why Cybersecurity Is a Battlefield and Microsegmentation is Your Friend

The traditional perimeter-focused security model has outlived its active usefulness as evidenced by the never-ending array of security breaches that constantly push the envelope on our tolerance for administrative “malpractice” in IT.

From the various security breaches in the private sector that are by now too plentiful to enumerate, through the fingerprint-stained OPM disaster, to the recently leaked database of personally identifiable information on over 191 million registered voters (in other words: all of them): no vulnerability seems too obscure, no exploit too impractical, no hack too audacious for some keyboard-toting mercenary to take advantage of the collective naiveté–or is it sheer incompetence?–of those who are paid to protect and defend access to sensitive information. How in the world did these people get their jobs, how dare they draw a salary, and how can they sleep at night? And, even more importantly: are you, by any chance, one of them?

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