It's not easy to keep an enterprise successful and secure these days. The great challenge is to create and support opportunities to thrive and improve the security posture of the enterprise. Businesses all over the world are faced with a host of challenges: an unsteady economy, growing competition, volatile global markets, shrinking budgets, and consumer uncertainty. Chief security officers (CSOs) and chief information officers (CIOs) everywhere are feeling the pressure. Their business stakeholders have a sense of urgency to trim the cost of doing business, expand into new channels, and leverage Web 2.0 technologies used on sites like Twitter and Facebook to do more business online as they cut travel expenses. Overworked IT departments are not only expected to respond to the demands of anxious business teams, they're also responsible for securing the organization and its valuable data against a raft of sophisticated new threats they’ve never seen before; proving their processes are internally and externally compliant; and being fiscally responsible.
That's a tall order by any measure, but visionary CSOs and CIOs are ready to adopt a new mindset about security, and the technology is available today to help them recast security as a proactive, future-driven business enabler rather than a tactical, threat-driven business inhibitor. McAfee understands that successful CIOs and CSOs no longer see procurement of security as a niche-driven activity. Instead, they are finding new ways to both deliver on business initiatives and improve the security and compliance posture of their entire organization.
Reading this paper will help you understand the fundamentals of building a security architecture that helps you respond to business demands while safeguarding your organization.
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