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Are You Asking the Right Security Questions?
The frequency and magnitude of security breaches continue to rise. Target, LinkedIn, Home Depot, Twitter, Wendy’s, Sony, and the list is growing. Even more worrisome, many breaches go unreported or worse yet, undiscovered. C-level executives are increasingly concerned with protecting their companies from security breaches. LightEdge’s Chief Security and Compliance Officer explores what questions C-Level executives are currently asking in regard to security and what we should be asking. With the spotlight on Information Security, business leaders are asking:
- Are we protected?
- What gaps do we have?
- Are we a target?
- What should we be protecting?
- We have a firewall and Antivirus software, isn’t that enough?
A firewall and Antivirus software were once considered a solid security strategy. While these are still good practices, this strategy is like locking your car doors. It keeps us from being an easy target, but will not protect us from the level of sophistication today’s cyber criminals have at their disposal.
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DownloadCase StudiesIn 2008, KaleidaCare turned to LightEdge to provide compliant colocation services for a portion of their IT environment. However, as KaleidaCare’s customer base grew, so did the demands on their infrastructure. KaleidaCare was quickly amassing a large customer base each with their own database of client information, patient medical records, and billing information. After determining that an additional investment to add physical servers to their existing environment was costprohibitive, KaleidaCare approached LightEdge again in early 2013. They decided to enhance their IT footprint through LightEdge’s high security, private cloud and cloud-delivered services. This included a network of storage devices that would enable the company to scale easily as it continued to grow.
In 2008, KaleidaCare turned to LightEdge to provide compliant colocation services for a portion of their IT environment. However, as KaleidaCare’s customer base grew, so did the demands on their infrastructure. KaleidaCare was quickly amassing a large customer base each with their own database of client information, patient medical records, and billing information. After determining that an additional investment to add physical servers to their existing environment was costprohibitive, KaleidaCare approached LightEdge again in early 2013. They decided to enhance their IT footprint through LightEdge’s high security, private cloud and cloud-delivered services. This included a network of storage devices that would enable the company to scale easily as it continued to grow.
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