| |January 20149CIOReviewIn IT security, the emerging trend is that Chief Information Security Officers are beginning to operate under the assumptions of compromise. More importance is given to one who defends but they should assume that there will be compromise at some point. Sooner the attackers get in, larger are the chances for the inside threats. So, there is a need for a framework to determine the future outcome and ways to limit the damage, the ways to do it, and mainly ways to keep attackers out of the intellectual property. Moreover, they need to have visibility to endpoint to the servers and the desktop environments, because that is where the data intellectual property and customer data is, and they need to be proactive and looking for threats that the organization is facing. The Chief Information Security officers cannot assume that the permanent essentials are going to protect them. They need to be hunting for the threats, threat hunting is becoming more common and they need to operate from the assumptions of compromise and they need to have visibility to their servers.Changes Driving The IndustryPeople used to be so focused on their perimeter and setting barriers on blocking intruders and now they are realizing those were important but not sufficient. So it is not enough to set up a good perimeter defense but there is a need to actively know your network, its working, the way it is running, the programs installed, the ways in which processes are spreading across the network and how configurations are changing. So you need to have not just a picture, but a movie. So that you can see the things changing over time, this can uncover these threats, you need the ability to remediate, to clean up problems, to kill the problematic processes to the wide files that have been installed by the hackers or insiders and do that without taking the mission critical systems offline.Organization Should have Visibility to EndpointIt takes longer to deploy new technology, even though there are good solutions available sometimes there are current business processes at customers or at political turf wars. There is a good solution to solve the business problem that you develop, and sometime it takes longer for organization to deploy it, then you can think you can switch case. Over seen that change, most of the organizations start to operate or to share their assumption that there will be a compromise and they need to have the visibility to end point, through which they can protect themselves. It is critically important to try to access things which are needed to solve the business problem, not only as we interact with customer, but the feedback from the prospects about what they would like to see and that is the important point for the ground breaking improvements and breakthroughs. You need to think about what they actually need to solve the business problem.Victor Limongelli, President & CEO, Guidance Software,Inc.Based in Pasadena, CA, Guidance Software (NASDAQ: GUID) offers eDiscovery, data discovery, and computer forensics solutions for corporations and government agencies. Founded in 1997, the company has a market cap of $259 million. Security: A Major Concern in IT Industry""CEO SpotlightThe Chief Information Security officers cannot assume that the permanent essentials are going to protect them
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