Guest article by Andrew Avanessian, VP of Global Professional Services, AvectoĬertain policies will ensure businesses preemptively secure their environment, including maintaining the correct level of permissions, software white-listing, firewalls and Internet Protocol Security (IPsec). Defense-in-depth security strategies should include both reactive and proactive measures, including regular patching and removing elevated privileges from all users. IT departments must take a proactive stance to security in order to reduce an organization’s exposure to those next unknown attacks.
With over 500,000 websites estimated to be affected by Heartbleed, businesses are starting to ask “what’s next?” In the wake of this notorious bug, one thing’s for certain: it’s just as important for organizations to protect against the unknown as it is the known.
