The Business Challenge E-business applications open corporations to a host of potential security issues, both internally and externally.
Hackers are always a concern.
Even more pressing is the growing number of users, employees, and partners, each with ever-changing demands for access to corporate data often sensitive data. Keeping up with change and keeping data secure becomes more challenging everyday in the new, non-stop digital environment. Today's enterprise networks include not only local corporate users, but also remote locations, mobile workers and telecommuters. With this environment, firewalls have become basic IT security necessity providing a system to validate user authenticity and control access to sensitive network resources. However, an IT infrastructure may include many firewalls distributed throughout the enterprise, each of which must be configured for maximum security and monitored for suspicious activities or attack patterns.