End-Point Security Management
Key Questions
Over the past few years with the reduction in cost and ease of accessibility to leading edge consumer technology, many of your employees will have shown a greater interest, and indeed developed an increased aptitude, in the use of their work related devices. This fact coupled with the drive for mobility and ubiquitous computing has seen many company devices being utilised outwith the direct control of the IT department with their presence and operation predominantly beyond existing perimeter security implementations.
Whilst this is all a very gratifying undertaking it does leave IT departments with an issue regarding endpoint devices and security with laptops, smartphones, and USB drives in particular, vulnerable to both theft and misuse!
What is your current security deployment at user endpoint device level?
Recent studies have shown that a majority of new data within any corporate environment is on the endpoint device. Yet whilst corporate information and data is generally well protected by the use of firewalls, anti-virus software and associated access orientated control applications, there is still a deficit in protection at the end user level as a balance between flexibility and control is strived for.
To this end Capito actively encourage all our clients to examine what measures are being deployed across your enterprise to address this shortfall.
The choice of a suitable application should take cognisience of existing Security measures and either be fully compatible with such deployments or, better still, be available for full integration with such software, policies and procedures given a full end-to-end solution which can be managed with existing toolsets.
Do you have a requirement for access to existing services and information from remote users?
The challenge facing your IT Department is obvious: ensure that access rights and functionality is maintained whilst providing a level of security in line with devices within a protected LAN environment.
To meet such requirements Capito see the Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) from Microsoft as the ideal tool we would implement for you. This software is an enhanced version of the industry standard application level security software from Whale Communications, and as such optimised both Microsoft and other 3rd Party applications by default.
With IAG, IT Departments obtain a Secure Socket Level based application which allows for controlled and policy specific access over VPN. It also delivers content inspection and protection for a wide variety of business applications and thus protecting the integrity of the network infrastructure, resources and appliances.
Finally IAG delivers a comprehensive policy enforcement which helps drive compliance in line with legal and business guidelines.