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What is Adaptive Security?Enterprises today are continuously working towards maintaining a perfect set of security policies. However, their over-dependency on blocking and prevention mechanism is futile considering the advanced attacks they face on their networks by cyber criminals. Neil MacDonald, VP and fellow at Gartner is of the opinion that, “We can’t control everything (in the network) anymore.” He says that we need a security model that can handle the moving perimeters and dynamics on a network. He believes that “The next generation data center is adaptive – it will do workloads on the fly, it will be service-oriented, virtualized, model-driven and contextual. So security has to be, too.” |
Objectives of Adaptive Security ArchitectureIn 2016 a report by Gartner on “Designing Adaptive Security Architecture for Protection from Advanced” states that the four elements of Adaptive Security (mentioned above) should work together intelligently and an integrated and adaptive system to ensure a complete protection against advanced threats. Nonstop monitoring and deriving analytics and insights is the core responsibility of any Adaptive Security Architecture. Some of the important objectives of an Adaptive Security Architecture is as follows: |
Features of Adaptive Security Infrastructure• Finer Grained Controls
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Adoption of Adaptive SecurityAdaptive Security can adapt to the evolving policies, procedures, infrastructure, and threat landscape facing the public, private and the enterprise sector. For it to work properly, organizations need to understand their entire environment, access their cybersecurity risk and determine their risk tolerance. From knowing where the data resides in an institution to what level of controls are given to individuals, Organizations should proactively do the vulnerability assessment in order to identify how and where the attackers might target. |
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