Cloud services, mobile computing and social networking all offer
significant benefits to companies,
but also real dangers. All three technological trends are driven by cost
savings and making businesses
more efficient.
of the adoption of cloud services,
the increase in consumer mobile
devices in the enterprise, and
the demand for access to social
networks, whether at work or at
home. CIOs and CSOs have to adapt
to a whole new reality to secure
“We see millennials enter the marketplace,
and they clearly have an expectation of having
access to [social networking] technologies.”
davId ThOmpsON, cIO, symaNTec
For example, Symantec’s internal private cloud has allowed the
company to extend the life of its
data center by four years and
has sped up the provisioning of
servers—what once took six days
with a physical server now takes
three hours with a virtualized
environment. The company has
also benefited from the mobile
devices and applications that allow
its remote salesforce to operate
more efficiently and from the inter-connectivity enabled by social
networks.
Securing the company has
become more difficult in the face
their networks and data, says Nich-
olas Arvanitis, principal security
consultant for Dimension Data.
