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There are a lot of security and hacking threats on the Internet these days, and as a result, it is absolutely imperative that you have a solid solution in place for network security. Threats will continue to evolve along with your environment, regardless of whether you are using security software, or have a dedicated IT team in charge of monitoring for suspicious activity, or even both combined. This means that it would be in the best interest for your company if you were to create an integrated network security solution that combines all of the modern tools that are needed in order to ensure that your system continues to run smoothly and effectively.

So at this point you may be wondering what it will take to assess your network security solutions, so that you can determine whether or not your security procedures or software needs to be updated. Here are a list of aspects that should be considered when making these evaluations.

1 – Accuracy of Detection. It is absolutely critical that your network solution can lower how many false positives and negatives are received, in addition to designing policy controls that are capable of mapping business processes. This solution should be able to protect your structured data, your unstructured data and all types of data including social security numbers, proprietary information, source code and credit card numbers.

2 – Enforcement Capabilities. Most leaks tend to be internal, or at least most leaks tend to start out that way. This means that your network security solution should come with integrated enforcement capabilities for a wide range of different data types and vectors for both external and internal communications.

3 – Policy Updating and Policy Administration. You should make sure that the security solution that you choose for your network can set rules based on destination, data, users and vector. It should also be able to tie all of these variables together to determine what type of information can be sent, as well as how and by who. These policies should all be based on requirements for regulatory compliance and corporate governance, which means that these rules should change as regulations do.

4 – Reporting and Manageability. The security software should be able to both deploy, and to manage. The policy controls should be capable of creating and integrating using existing tools and processes so that anyone can use the software, not just members of the IT staff. Your network security solution should be an all around solution, which means that it should incorporate prevention, monitoring, reporting and enforcement all in a single collection.