04 February 2011
Investing in Security
Whilst it is reassuring to see that the government is clearly taking cyber attacks more seriously, with £650 million of investment being partly spent on a UK Defence Cyber Operations Group integrated within the Ministry of Defence, the reality is that for the majority of private sector corporations, IT budgets are tighter than ever. Whilst cyber attacks are now being recognised as just as great a potential threat as terrorism, most IT directors living in the real world are being forced to look at ways to get the most out of their existing security budgets rather than increase them!
At Networks First, we have found a huge rise in companies needing to find ways to ‘do more with less’ and, in response to this need, will shortly be launching a new Advanced LAN Security service designed to provide increased security for existing LAN infrastructures. The key aim of the service is to help companies maximise the security level of their current estate without the need for costly hardware upgrades.
The service is ideally suited to organisations which have to comply with the increasing number of security standards such as the Government Code of Connect (CoCo), the Payment Cards Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) or ISO 27001 and will offer a lifeline to IT directors struggling to keep on top of security whilst facing a reduced pot of money with which to work.
Darren Ashcroft
Network Consultant
Networks First
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