Avoiding Hard Work for Nothing

This morning I found myself thinking of the many commercial and government organizations we’ve run into over the years that have an urge to buy something… something, as in almost anything they can plug in that purports to improve their cyber security posture. “Surely there is something I can purchase and plug in to fix (this or that cyber security issue). There has to be something I can buy!”, goes this line of thinking.  Something that will help these organizations delay –or even avoid– the challenging but lasting solutions that would result from correcting the underlying fundamental pervasive deficiencies in network architectural design, technical training, readiness, incident response, policy and more. “Surely there is something on the market today will let us avoid the hard decisions until the next budget cycle – if ever!”

If only things were this simple. Unfortunately, there is nothing on the market today that fits this description, no matter what some product vendors would like for us to believe.  While many security products do work from a tactical point solution perspective, each comes with its own support, maintenance and all-too-often cyber security holes of their own. Meanwhile such organizations have fewer IT budget dollars and time left to fix the true cause of many of their problems, their network’s flawed architectural design.

Fortunately, there is good news. One of reasons why decision makers put off tough architectural design decisions is because they often believe significant outlays of capital expenditure and network downtime would be involved. Neither assumption is normally true.

The logical configuration of an enterprise network can be re-aligned to support multiple security objectives at once from a fundamental architectural design standpoint, while simultaneously improving network functionality and reliability. To do this, the logical and physical interconnectivity of routers, switches, firewalls, DMZ configurations, VLAN configurations, proxy servers, remote access infrastructure, DNS, databases, servers, enterprise authentication, Active Directory domain(s) configuration, domain policies, Group Policies and more are all fair game for enterprise-wide re-configuration. Such reengineering can lower the cost of network operations more than sufficiently to pay for the entire exercise. The return-on-investment payoff timeframe can be year or less – and all without any additional network downtime.

Sound impossible?  Don’t believe it can be done?  Good, then I’m glad I’ve piqued your interest. Give me a call and I will personally help you to understand exactly how we do all this and more – and I will even use your network as an example, gratis on the house.  So what are you waiting for? Call me. When you do, choose the option for our enterprise security services team and then ask for me. I look forward to speaking with you very soon.