Enterprise Instincts

From SecurityForest

In the course of life, people encounter change frequently.
The ability to adapt to changes is called adaptability, human instinct, and there are even those who would describe it as a need for survival. In the technology arena, change is even more frequent and dynamic, and enterprises are forced to survive by
understanding the changes and adapting to them. You could call this enterprise instincts.

The need to secure the enterprise's technological environment has advanced from speculation to concrete reality.
And from reality to panic levels. Apprehension is the strongest fear of all. The unknown.
And when the unknown takes on a virtual, invisible shape, we are obliged to deal with a surrealistic reality, and worst of all, to contend with a technological paradox: maximum security, minimum resources, and still too much money squandered.

The recent era of prosperity created a world in which we acquire technologies we have not studied in depth, and hire the best
consultants in order to explain, define, understand and solve unfamiliar territory – that of data security.
Question marks hang in the air like a two edged sword over information systems administrators seeking an answer to the wrong
questions, and each question has an answer, but not every question testifies to an uncertainty that is actually rooted in a problem.
A moment before we sign another yet purchase order, a moment before they explain the advantages of implementing the Extra2010 system to you, stop – we are now just a moment before the revolution.

The ultimate applicative protection system is in your hands: your programmers.
It is they who have the power to change and build enterprise and web-based systems for you capable of combating intruders, better than any protection software you can buy. It is your responsibility to stress to them the importance of security in the development stages. Good code is not code that works!.
Good code is code that does solely and only what it is intended to do.
In your hands lies the capacity to invest in knowledge to build the proper security and to understand the criteria for choosing the technology - not only system performance, but also security considerations.

The purchase order that you sign is an investment that will not be returned, a resource that will evaporate when the technology becomes obsolete. Investment of those resources in knowledge in the realm of enterprise security gives you a commercial advantage, lowers your costs, and gives you the economic and commercial edge to outperform the competition.

That said, most of us tend to state that our enterprise has a highly developed data security department, but who can say that their organization has a security doctrine, and which of you who say that, can truly claim to implement the correct writing of code. That is the key to the shut door, to the locked organization, to the iron gate. The key to safeguarding information.

It is an interesting challenge to convert a hurting problem into a resounding commercial advantage, and the way to do that is to smash old concepts and explode old myths. To apply logic to uncertainty.
Technological culture is a matter of time, and time is a matter of culture.

Who are the keepers of the gate? Is the guard and the master of the fortress one and the same person? A kingdom is a kingdom, but it is beholden to talking to its people.
Information security is not what will crown a project with success, but it is what will condemn a project to failure.
Data security is an integral and essential part of every project, and yet, we generally implement it separately, if at all.

Project success is measured by the capacity to integrate the level of the security in it with the level of implementation.
Yet, at the same time, we demand that the computer systems concealed in a dark metal frame confirm the identity of a person who not infrequently uses a false identity which we want to authenticate by means of characters darting across a metal box.
With a wry smile, we are obliged to admit that this is absurd, but that there is no alternative.

Computer machines also have digital ID certificates that can ensure a certain level of trust even difficult to establish between two people who are face to face.
But nonetheless we expect reliability from the information transferred between two random identities in a virtual information network perceived as expanses in a galaxy.
But glimmers of light can be found in any dark place, for without darkness, we would not see pinpoints of light (the bright side).
Consequently, it is good that intruders are interested in us; they are the ones who create our enterprise's reputation, they are the ones who take it away from us, and they are the ones who create consultants.

Let us take the enterprise instincts and use them to resounding commercial advantage.